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PopUp Menu Problems - separator color

by Stephen Hagyard · in Technical Issues · 03/03/2004 (11:16 am) · 3 replies

Hi,

I am getting a persistent message when I try to use a PopUpMenu box.

The engine crashes with the message "CreateBitMapArray - failed to get separator color!".

I assume that I am missing something in the Profile that supplies the color tables but I can't find what it is. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance Stephen.
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Torque Owner Adam Beaumont
#1
03/03/2004 (11:15 pm)
I think the seperator color is used to delineate the different elements in a bitmap array - take a look at torque\common\ui\darkWindow.png for instance. The red color is the seperator color.

Torque figures out which color is the seperator by reading the pixel in the top left hand corner of the bitmap. It then goes down and across splitting up the bitmap whenever it encounters that color again.

The error you're getting occurs when either it can't find the bitmap array or it can't get the color from the top left pixel (in the file engine\gui\guitypes.cc). The first thing to check is probably that you have a valid bitmap array in your control...

Torque 3D Owner Sebastien Bourgon
#2
03/04/2004 (2:11 am)
A popup menu requires a bitmap array for its scrollbar I believe
So unless a scrollbar bitmap is set in the profile it wont work and you'll get a bitmap array error.

Torque Owner Stephen Hagyard
#3
03/04/2004 (11:46 am)
Thanks - I wasn't putting the right directory to the bitmap array and that was causing the problem.

Stephen Hagyard.