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Cannot make a button transparent

by Frank Bignone · in Torque Game Engine · 11/02/2001 (1:43 pm) · 6 replies

I'm using the attribute opaque to set some button transparent :
new GuiControlProfile (GuiHollowButtonProfile)
{
   opaque = false;
   fillColor = "192 0 0";
   border = false;
   borderColor   = "0 0 0";
   borderColorHL = "127 0 0";
   fontColor = "0 0 0";
   fontColorHL = "32 100 100";
   fixedExtent = true;
   justify = "center";
   canKeyFocus = false;
   soundButtonOver = "AudioButtonOver";
   fontSize = 24;
};

But the buttons are not opaque, and are filled in gray event if I set the fill color to something else.

Any hints ?

PS: with the last engine (V12), this piece of code works
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    Associate James Lupiani
    Sickhead Games
    #1
    11/02/2001 (2:33 pm)
    I have some transparent bitmap buttons in my GUI, and the opaque property doesn't affect it. The transparency information is in my PNGs for the button.

    Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
    Darkhand Studio
    #2
    11/02/2001 (3:00 pm)
    In fact, I tried to get my old code working; but it seems some parts are not working now. I really like to have the opaque flag working well, as I'm using it quite exttensively.

    Associate James Lupiani
    Sickhead Games
    #3
    11/02/2001 (3:45 pm)
    What does it do, anyway?

    Nevermind, I stopped being lazy and looked at the code.

    Try changing the area around line 35 of guiButtonCtrl::onRender to this:
    if (mProfile->mOpaque)
{
   if (mDepressed)
      renderLoweredBox(boundsRect);
   else
      renderRaisedBox(boundsRect);
}

    Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
    Darkhand Studio
    #4
    11/02/2001 (3:54 pm)
    In fact it just fills the button in gray and do not take into account the opaque flag (and even the fill color).

    It's quite late here, so I need to go to bed now. I will look at it tomorrow morning.

    If the opaque flag works correctly, I should only see the text of the button, nothing else.

    see ya

    Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
    Darkhand Studio
    #5
    11/03/2001 (3:06 am)
    Nice it solves my problem.
    Why the hell was this feature removed from first release ?

    I compare the last code and the new one, and it's very different.

    Torque Owner Ace
    #6
    11/03/2001 (5:28 am)
    does this have anything to do with getting rid of the box around the chatmessage text? i really dont like that box. how would you get rid of it?