Permanent info HUD

[Przemek_kondor 14]

Hi,

I want to create some permanent info HUD, which will display scores, time, etc (controls can change! ). So I need some dialog or RscTitles.

Dialog's disadvantage is that dialog blocks movement of player (movingEnable = true; doesn't work properly).

RscTitles disadvantage is that I don't know how to get handler of it for change text on it etc.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

class RscTitles

{

 titles[] = {hud};

 class hud

 {

   idd = 100;

   movingEnable = true;

   duration = 120;

   fadein = 0;

   name = "hud";

   controls[] = {"image1"};

   class info1: RscText

   {

     idc = 101;

     (...)

     text = "text of info1";

   };

 };//hud

};//RscTitles

So how to get acces to hud display and info1 after calling:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

cutRsc["hud","PLAIN"];

?

[nuxil 2]

hi..

here is a example of my watersystem for the harrier.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

class NUXWATER

{

idd = 701;

movingEnable = 1;

duration = 9999;

fadein = 0;

fadeout = 0;

name = "NUXWATER";

onLoad = "NUXWATER = (_this select 0)";

class controls

{

class NUXWEHBACKGROUND

{

idc = -1;

type = 0;

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

font = "Bitstream";

colorBackground[] = {0, 0.55, 0, 0.4};

text =;

style = 128;

sizeEx = 0.015;

x = 0.77;

y = 0;

w = 0.23;

h = 0.2;

};

....

....

....

};

nb.. this are subclasses of class RscTitles

now. i call the titleRsc with titleRsc["NUXWATER", "PLAIN"];

assuming _blah has a idc

_blah = NUXWATER displayCtrl XXX;

you use command "ctrlSetXXXX" for "text|pos|color" or whatever on yor idc.. check the wiki out. for all ctrlSet commands

_blah ctrlSetText "my text";

then _blah ctrlCommit 0;

hope this was helpfull

[Przemek_kondor 14]

Thanks a lot - it's working!

[Przemek_kondor 14]

I have small problem:

I created a progressbar which I want to animate:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

while{ true }do

{

   titleRsc["hud", "plain"];

   _new_width = ...

   _progressbar ctrlSetPosition [x, y, _new_width, h];

   _progressbar ctrlCommit 2.0;

   waitUntil { ctrlCommited _progressbar };

};

But this animation always starts from original width (defined in description.ext) instead of previously calculated _new_width.

So my question is: how to create smooth progressbar animation?

edit: Propably it is caused by creating new instance of hud by calling titleRsc

[Namikaze 0]

Last I read, progress bar controls aren't something that we as end-users can manipulate. Kind of like rscTree. I've tried to find alternative syntax for manipulating progress bar controls, but I haven't been successful.

Note: If this information is wrong, I apologize and look forward to the correct answer. Manipulating a progress bar control is something that would help me quite a bit.

[Przemek_kondor 14]

_progressbar in my case is static text :

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

#define CT_STATIC 0

...

 class Progressbar{

  type = CT_STATIC; //not true bis progressbar

  ...

 };

with no text - only red background which is resized

[nuxil 2]

its verry simple to make a progressbar.

i'll show you some code on howto do it later..

im at work now.. if no one else shows you.

you have to wait 10 Houers.

[Przemek_kondor 14]

as I thought, problem was caused by calling new instance of hud in every step of while-loop.

The solution is create only one hud with long duration:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

titleRsc["hud", "plain"];

while{ true }do

{  

  _new_width = ...

  _progressbar ctrlSetPosition [x, y, _new_width, h];

  _progressbar ctrlCommit 2.0;

  waitUntil { ctrlCommited _progressbar };

};

and it now works properly

[Namikaze 0]

That's a very interesting way to create a progress bar. I hadn't thought that far outside the box, very creative. Nuxil, I look forward to seeing if you have another creative solution. This wasn't my thread, but it's been very helpful to me so far. Thanks!

[nuxil 2]

hey Przemek_kondor thats basicly the same way i do it.

so giving a example wount be nessesary..

however.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

while {true} do

{

scare me

};

you never know,

lest say titleText["blah", "PLAIN"] gets called.

you can then not commit the progressbar.

also you could do

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

titleRsc["hud", "plain"];

while {(!(isnull hud))} do

{

code..

};

sleep X; so you can read a titletext if one occures

_callmeagain = [yourparms] execvm "this-script.sqf";