Some GUI weirdos in 1.4

#1 I haven't had that happen, but I've had some odd things.

For instance, put text edit boxes on a screen, size and position them, save it. It works. Re-enter the editor and they are all small size and out of position. Click on one and it resizes itself to the right size, but is still out of position. It's very strange.

#2 Rodney, are you sure you set the orienetation of your buttons to relative? I had this problem when using the default orientation.

#3 Yes they were Relative.

The GUI works fine, it's just when you reopen it in the editor that the problem shows up. If you re-save it then, they are messed up. It's really strange.

#4 @Apparatus,

I got the same thing and thought it was a bug. Then after some poking around I discovered that the behavior of the editor changed such that when you quit the gui editor it goes to the GUI you had open when you entered it. That confused me a little, and after using it like that for a little bit I decided I hated it and changed it back to the old behavior. Have a look in the GUI editor scripts for the GuiEdit function, in which it should be fairly obvious what to change. If I remember rightly its just changing some commented out code.

@Rodney,

That's a bug. If you save the .gui before you quit the GUI editor and then reload Torque it will be fine. I dont remember what the cause was, but I'm fairly sure its been mentioned on the forums.

T.

#5 Anyways, it never stopped me to actually come up with a gui in minutes; that's the beauty of it; i mean, achieving a panel for your game/application in torque is pretty cool in 1.4 (as well as in other versions but in 1.4 is much better)

here is what i was doing while ive got that wird thing - must've done sometin myself cause it did not repeated since:


the whole idea about this GUI is to make it totally different; launch the exe and you don't know is torque :)

edit: my photobucket account is full for this moth; i'll have to upgrade..

#6 Thats nice even with the high quality games like thinktanks and lore you can still see the basic torque in them which I don't like so much I plan to do that type of thing with my own game when I find the time.

#7 This site is realy helpfull for thoes of use that are visuial learners =)

http://torque.smdlabs.com/index.html

#8 The trick is (and this is just a guess, but it sounds like problems I'd had in the past before having this little epiphany), to remember that "relative" is relative [b]to]/b] 640 x 480.

I had oodles of trouble before I realized this because I was setting my gui's/ menus up for 1024 x 768 without realizing this.

Once I got that little fact in my head, I've been able to do just about anything I've wanted with gui's... there are still quirks in the editor though - I suggest working from the *.gui file and manually text editing it, but then I like to comment my gui files for readability/ troubleshooting purposes and the gui editor doesn't seem to read/ write back any comment lines. =\