Trigger that displays and removes gui

#1 I have been trying this also.

But havent been succesful. But I get it to load up in f11. and I get and error
that says
cannont change namessapce parent linkage for Test From TriggerData to GuiTextCtrl.

But when I click out from f11 then GUI shows. :)

This is this scriot I used.

datablock TriggerData(Test)
{
   // The period is value is used to control how often the console
   // onTriggerTick callback is called while there are any objects
   // in the trigger.  The default value is 100 MS.
   tickPeriodMS = 100;
};


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

function Test::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
   // This method is called whenever an object enters the %trigger
   // area, the object is passed as %obj.  The default onEnterTrigger
   // method (in the C++ code) invokes the ::onTrigger(%trigger,1) method on
   // every object (whatever it's type) in the same group as the trigger.
   Parent::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj);
  exec("starter.fps/client/ui/test.gui");
  
}

function Test::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{

   Parent::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj);
}

function Test::onTickTrigger(%this,%trigger)
{

   Parent::onTickTrigger(%this,%trigger);
}

Im hoping some on here can help us out thanks:)

#2 Couple things going on for you here, Sventhors -

1. onEnterTrigger() will happen on the *server*, not the client,
so you'll need to commandToClient('openSomeGui');
note that if you're running both the server & client in one instance, which is typically the most common way folks develop, i believe, this method *will* work, but you'll be sad if you ever try it across a network.
see this thread for more info.

2. exec'ing test.gui is not the right way to open a gui.
look at how the options dialog is opened. you're looking for things like Canvas.pushDialog().

#3 I got a another way to work for this. Yeah. I could not figure out how Canvas.pushDialog(). works. I have been trying it for two days and no luck. This is how I did it by triggering text.

First I made guiText (or can use BitmapGUI) in f10.
named it yeah.gui
Turned off Visible
Saved playerGui.gui

//
I checked it in Console(to see if it responds) by typing yeah.Visible = 1;
and turned it off yeah.Visible = 0;

my triggers.cs script

datablock TriggerData(awesome)
{
   // The period is value is used to control how often the console
   // onTriggerTick callback is called while there are any objects
   // in the trigger.  The default value is 100 MS.
   tickPeriodMS = 100;
};


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

function awesome::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
   // This method is called whenever an object enters the %trigger
   // area, the object is passed as %obj.  The default onEnterTrigger
   // method (in the C++ code) invokes the ::onTrigger(%trigger,1) method on
   // every object (whatever it's type) in the same group as the trigger.
  Parent::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj);
  //echo("TEXT-RRRR");
  //Canvas.popDialog(NameOfGUI); //Close it the Gui 
  //Canvas.pushDialog(awesome);
   echo("TEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
  yeah.Visible = 1;
  
}

function awesome::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{

   Parent::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj);
  // echo("Need more beer got to Leave!");
   yeah.Visible = 0;
}

function awesome::onTickTrigger(%this,%trigger)
{

   Parent::onTickTrigger(%this,%trigger);
}

Made a trigger named awesome. Save. There it is.

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It be great someone could explain how to trigger Canvas.pushDialog(). or how pop works.
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Any additional comments will be great.

#4 I got a another way to work for this. Yeah. I could not figure out how Canvas.pushDialog(). works. I have been trying it for two days and no luck. This is how I did it by triggering text.

First I made guiText (or can use BitmapGUI) in f10.
named it yeah.gui
Turned off Visible
Saved playerGui.gui

//
I checked it in Console(to see if it responds) by typing yeah.Visible = 1;
and turned it off yeah.Visible = 0;

my triggers.cs script

datablock TriggerData(awesome)
{
   // The period is value is used to control how often the console
   // onTriggerTick callback is called while there are any objects
   // in the trigger.  The default value is 100 MS.
   tickPeriodMS = 100;
};


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

function awesome::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{
   // This method is called whenever an object enters the %trigger
   // area, the object is passed as %obj.  The default onEnterTrigger
   // method (in the C++ code) invokes the ::onTrigger(%trigger,1) method on
   // every object (whatever it's type) in the same group as the trigger.
  Parent::onEnterTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj);
  //echo("TEXT-RRRR");
  //Canvas.popDialog(NameOfGUI); //Close it the Gui 
  //Canvas.pushDialog(awesome);
   echo("TEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
  yeah.Visible = 1;
  
}

function awesome::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj)
{

   Parent::onLeaveTrigger(%this,%trigger,%obj);
  // echo("Need more beer got to Leave!");
   yeah.Visible = 0;
}

function awesome::onTickTrigger(%this,%trigger)
{

   Parent::onTickTrigger(%this,%trigger);
}

Made a trigger named awesome. Save. There it is.

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It be great someone could explain how to trigger Canvas.pushDialog(). or how pop works.
------
Any additional comments will be great.

#5 Try what you are doing running a dedicated server and connecting to it. I doubt it will work, and it's only working now because your client and server are running together.

GUI elements are part of the client, thusly you need a function in your client scripts like this:

function clientCmdToggleGUI(%val){

if(%val){
 Canvas.popDialog(NameofGUI);
 Canvas.pushDialog(awesome);
}
else{
 Canvas.popDialog(awesome);
 Canvas.pushDialog(NameofGUI);
}

}

And then change your onEnter and onLeave Trigger functions to have this in them

if(%obj.client)
 CommandToClient(%obj.client, 'ToggleGUI', 1);

//And

if(%obj.client)
 CommandToClient(%obj.client, 'ToggleGUI', 0);

//Respectively

I actually haven't done much GUI programming, but I'm assuming this is how it works just going of knowledge of the client/server setup.