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Example use of GuiTSCtrl, GameTSCtrl, or ShowTSCtrl

by Demolishun · in Torque Game Engine · 09/28/2004 (6:00 pm) · 3 replies

I looked through the GUI code for the examples and now am more confused than I was when I started. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use any of these controls to display an object on the screen with the regular GUI widgets. I tried loading ShowTSCtrl and it turned the screen black! I found where GameTSCtrl was created for each example, but that is all I could find other than a couple of functions defined for "onAwake" and "onSleep". Am I completely nuts? BTW I am using Torque 1.2 as my codebase.

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Frank
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    Torque Owner Ben Woodhead
    #1
    09/29/2004 (8:10 am)
    Hello,

    If you just want to display a shape then you may want to look at the show mod. It uses the ShowTSCtrl and doesn't use any of the networking. Check out the show directory in the example. A good tutorial to look at is TicTacToe (search in the resources). It actually creates a TSCtrl and displays shapes.
    TicTacToe is not a good tutorial for game development itself since it does all the rendering and Scene Stuff itself but it will give you an idea of how the TSCtrl work.

    Ben

    Yiding \"Linker\" Jia
    #2
    10/07/2004 (8:41 pm)
    Gametsctrl(playgui in tribes i think?) is for the actual gameplay. You'd use guitsctrl for displaying shapes in gui i think.

    Torque 3D Owner Tim Dix (Raverix)
    #3
    10/07/2004 (8:43 pm)
    What type of object are you tryin' to display? GUIObjectView might be what you're lookin' for... PlayGUI IS in TGE.