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GUIs and mice

by baylor wetzel · in Torque Game Builder · 09/05/2009 (10:59 pm) · 7 replies

It's been awhile, i forget, can i use a mouse with TGB objects (like t2dStaticSprite) when a GUI is open?

i just added a debug GUI with a drop down to change some game variables and now none of my buttons in my game (all of which are non-GUI, just sprites with mouse down events) respond to the mouse

The debug GUI is loaded with Canvas.pushDialog()

If memory serves correctly, i might be screwed (which is a shame because i don't know a good way to make a non-GUI dropdown list), but i figured i'd ask
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Associate Phillip O'Shea
Violent Tulip
#1
09/06/2009 (1:33 am)
If a GuiControl's profile is set to be non-modal (MyProfile.modal = false) then it will not receive mouse events. So, if you have controls in front of the t2dSceneWindow which needs to receive mouse events, then you just need to ensure that their profiles are non-modal.

Hope that helped!

Torque 3D Owner baylor wetzel
#2
09/06/2009 (2:08 am)
Phil, how precisely would i use that?

i have a file called emotionSelectionGUI.gui containing a GUI named emotionSelectionGUI which contains two items, emotionDropDown and closeDialogButton

i've tried using a function such as:
function showDebug()
{
	Canvas.pushDialog(emotionSelectionGUI);
	emotionSelectionGUI.modal = false;
}

and i've edited the GUI itself:
%guiContent = new GuiControl(emotionSelectionGUI) {
	modal = false;
	canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
	isContainer = "1";
etc...

Either way, when the GUI is open (via pushDialog), i can't get to any of the other buttons on the screen (which are just sprites with a Button behavior that calls onClick on mouse down)

Associate Phillip O'Shea
Violent Tulip
#3
09/06/2009 (2:27 am)
It has to be in the control's profile.
if(!isObject(GuiModelessDialogProfile)) new GuiControlProfile("GuiModelessDialogProfile")
{
   modal = false;
};

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------

%guiContent = new GuiControl(emotionSelectionGUI) {
   profile = "GuiModelessDialogProfile";
   canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
   isContainer = "1";
...

Torque 3D Owner baylor wetzel
#4
09/06/2009 (3:41 am)
Hmm, is there perhaps another trick i'm missing, or a way to debug this?

i've verified that i'm execing guiProfiles.cs before execing the GUI itself (in case that matters), i tried the profile name with and without quotes (all the samples in guiProfiles are without quotes), i can see from the help files that modal is a field (although it's listed as deprecated in 1.7.4; no mention of what would replace it) and that i'm spelling it correctly. i wonder what it is i'm doing wrong

Associate Phillip O'Shea
Violent Tulip
#5
09/06/2009 (3:47 am)
Modal depreciated? Where did you see that?

Torque Owner Matthew "Ashteth" Kee
Default Studio Name
#6
09/06/2009 (11:19 am)
I believe the problem is that you are using "pushDialog" when you really want to be using "setContent".

Pushing a dialog to the screen places it on the top layer, so that you can't interact with the other gui elements / TGB. If you use setContent(), then the canvas is set to that element alone and TGB can still receive mouse events. That's how I recall it anyways. Its been quite a while since I used conventional GUI elements.

Torque 3D Owner baylor wetzel
#7
09/06/2009 (12:34 pm)
@Phil, in the docs you download with 1.7.4, under TGB Reference->GuiControl->Fields->Modal the only description is "Modal Type: deprecated"

@Ashteth, setContent() sets the background. It requires you to fill in the whole screen with something. In my case, all i have is a drop down. When i use setContent() with it, it replaces MainScreen.gui with it and causes the mouse to draw garbage all over the screen. While pushDialog() certainly sounds like it should be modal, i believe it's the only alternative to setContent() and the normal way of adding GUI elements on top of a scene