Dialog question's

[=Odin= 0]

G'day, I have just made my 1st basic dialog, with alot of help from Manny,s explanation on the wiki (you da man Manny)

But have a few questions?

1- is it possible to disable the underline in activetext, when it has been selected?

2- I have tried get a background colour to show, change font color and create buttons but allways get errors saying

eg. line 102 useing defined bla bla

[sorry accidently pressed post]

here is a bit of what I have so far

Quote[/b] ]// Control types

#define CT_STATIC 0

#define CT_BUTTON 1

#define CT_EDIT 2

#define CT_SLIDER 3

#define CT_COMBO 4

#define CT_LISTBOX 5

#define CT_TOOLBOX 6

#define CT_CHECKBOXES 7

#define CT_PROGRESS 8

#define CT_HTML 9

#define CT_STATIC_SKEW 10

#define CT_ACTIVETEXT 11

#define CT_TREE 12

#define CT_STRUCTURED_TEXT 13

#define CT_CONTEXT_MENU 14

#define CT_CONTROLS_GROUP 15

#define CT_XKEYDESC 40

#define CT_XBUTTON 41

#define CT_XLISTBOX 42

#define CT_XSLIDER 43

#define CT_XCOMBO 44

#define CT_ANIMATED_TEXTURE 45

#define CT_OBJECT 80

#define CT_OBJECT_ZOOM 81

#define CT_OBJECT_CONTAINER 82

#define CT_OBJECT_CONT_ANIM 83

#define CT_LINEBREAK 98

#define CT_USER 99

#define CT_MAP 100

#define CT_MAP_MAIN 101

// Static styles

#define ST_POS 0x0F

#define ST_HPOS 0x03

#define ST_VPOS 0x0C

#define ST_LEFT 0x00

#define ST_RIGHT 0x01

#define ST_CENTER 0x02

#define ST_DOWN 0x04

#define ST_UP 0x08

#define ST_VCENTER 0x0c

#define ST_TYPE 0xF0

#define ST_SINGLE 0

#define ST_MULTI 16

#define ST_TITLE_BAR 32

#define ST_PICTURE 48

#define ST_FRAME 64

#define ST_BACKGROUND 80

#define ST_GROUP_BOX 96

#define ST_GROUP_BOX2 112

#define ST_HUD_BACKGROUND 128

#define ST_TILE_PICTURE 144

#define ST_WITH_RECT 160

#define ST_LINE 176

#define FontM "Zeppelin32"

class hire {

idd = -1; // set to -1, because we don't require a unique ID

movingEnable = true; // no movement while the dialog is shown

controlsBackground[] = { }; // no background controls needed

objects[] = { }; // no objects needed

controls[] = { MyActiveText,MyActiveText2,MyActiveText3,MyActiveText4,MyActiveText5,MyActiveText6,MyActiv

eText7,MyActiveText8,MyActiveText9, }; // our Hello World text as seen below:

class MyHelloText {

idc = -1; // set to -1, unneeded

type = CT_STATIC; // constant

style = ST_LEFT; // constant

text = "Hello world";

font = FontM;

sizeEx = 0.023;

colorBackground[] = { 1, 1, 1, 0.3 };

colorText[] = { 0, 0, 0, 1 };

x = 0.8;

y = 0.1;

w = 0.2;

h = 0.05;

};

class MyActiveText {

idc = -1;

type = CT_ACTIVETEXT;

style = ST_LEFT;

x = 0.75; y = 0.13;

w = 0.2; h = 0.035;

font = FontM;

sizeEx = 0.024;

color[] = { 1, 1, 1, 1 };

colorActive[] = { 1, 0.2, 0.2, 1 };

soundEnter[] = { "", 0, 1 }; // no sound

soundPush[] = { "", 0, 1 };

soundClick[] = { "", 0, 1 };

soundEscape[] = { "", 0, 1 };

action = "nul = [""SoldierGB""] exec ""scripts\hire.sqs""";

text = "Recruit Rifleman";

default = true;

};

class MyActiveText2 {

idc = -1;

type = CT_ACTIVETEXT;

style = ST_LEFT;

x = 0.75; y = 0.15;

w = 0.2; h = 0.035;

font = FontM;

sizeEx = 0.024;

color[] = { 1, 1, 1, 1 };

colorActive[] = { 1, 0.2, 0.2, 1 };

soundEnter[] = { "", 0, 1 }; // no sound

soundPush[] = { "", 0, 1 };

soundClick[] = { "", 0, 1 };

soundEscape[] = { "", 0, 1 };

action = "nul = [""SoldierGMG""] exec ""scripts\hire1.sqs""";

text = "Recruit MG";

default = true;

};

and so on till the exit,

Will I Have to change all the classes static properties to make a change ?

3- Is useing an .hpp file better than placing the code in the description?

any comments appreciated

Odin

[dr_eyeball 16]

For a working example, see Dialog Framework.

1. perhaps change the focus to another control

2. show code, 'bla bla' doesn't help

3. example above shows how to use hpp files cleanly

[=Odin= 0]

Thank-you Dr.E your team -Dialog pack was what made me wanna try some for myself, top job on that mate

I have been trying but cannot get a blasted error to show again, hows that for strange, hehe think I may be getting the hang of it now maybe, anyway thanx for answering and as soon as I get one of them error windows I will post it.

Odin