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I want to know how to make "clickable" texts

by Jason Doiron · in Torque Game Engine · 09/14/2005 (11:18 am) · 4 replies

I'm very knew to this engine, and I'd like to know this: How to make it so that I can click on specific words in a text, and get a window to pop up and show the dictionary definition of that word. I don't know what the easiest way would be of "hot-spotting" the words like this, but I do know how to work with GUI's in Torque though: how to make a window then close it. Ideally, I would eventually make the window aesthetically pleasing, but that's not necessary right now.

I just figured I'd post this because any one might know a good tutorial or feature of torque that's relevant to this. I'm at a loss of where to start, this engine is so vast, I could learn alot about it in a week, without learning what I actually need to know.
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Associate Kyle Carter
#1
09/17/2005 (8:31 pm)
If you use a GuiMLTextCtrl you can place links in it and have them do script callbacks to trigger this sort of behavior. There are also several tooltip implementations floating around you can use.

Eric
#2
09/19/2005 (10:40 am)
Where might I find these implementations?

Associate Kyle Carter
#3
09/21/2005 (4:49 am)
In the resources section of the site? Try the google search.

Torque 3D Owner Jon Ray
#4
09/21/2005 (4:03 pm)
I know for the GUI part.. for a clickable URL you do this, however, I haven't tested this code as-is, so you may need to modify it. Just put it in one of your *Dlg.gui files.

LJR
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functions urlDlg::onWake(%this)
{
%text="Click Here";
urlText.setText(%text);
}

function urlText::onURL (%this, url)
{
echo(%this);
echo(%url);
gotoWebPage( %url );
}