Game Development Community

Popping dialogs

by John Coyne · in Torque Game Builder · 03/09/2006 (4:43 am) · 4 replies

Hi
For my game i'd like to have the user left click the scene and have a small menu pop up at the clicked location. The user then chooses what to drop at this location or closes the menu. I've looked around and it seems what I have to do is use "canvas.pushDialog(dialogue)". I've tried this and get an "invalid control" message. Is a dialoge the same as any other GUI in torque? Cos I just made a small menu, also, is there a way to pop the dialoge on screen at the click?
So far this is looking like it might be easier to build a custom menu object instead.

ps. I assume I have to load the menu at some point place in the code. I cant seem to find any info on that either.
NextNext Thread
PrevPrevious Thread
More from Torque Game Builder


Torque Owner John Coyne
#1
03/09/2006 (10:08 am)
Got quite far into this today. Only problem is I cant seem to remove the dialogue or reposition it. The 1st echo in rightMouseButtonDown doesnt even get called by the looks of it. Is there something about popDialog I need to know before it will work?


function SceneWindow2D::onMouseDown(%this, %modifier, %worldPos, %mouseClicks)
{
   echo("Left mouse click at " @ %worldPos);
   canvas.popDialog(GuiShell);
}

function SceneWindow2D::onRightMouseDown(%this, %modifier, %worldPos, %mouseClicks)
{
   if(GuiShell.isAwake())
   {
      echo("Popping dialog off the screen");
      canvas.popDialog(GuiShell);
   }
   else
   {
      echo("Pushing dialog onto the screen");
      canvas.pushDialog(GuiShell);
      GuiShell.setPosition(getWord(%worldPos, 0), getWord(%worldPos, 1));
   }
}

Torque Owner Gary Preston
#2
03/09/2006 (11:03 am)
You may find that when you've pushed the new gui its taken over handling of mouse events.

Torque Owner John Coyne
#3
03/14/2006 (5:19 am)
Ah, hadnt though of that. Thanks, I'll have another go at this today.

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
Torque
#4
03/14/2006 (10:57 pm)
You can set "modal = false;" in the profile to prevent it from taking mouse events (Gary is right it is probably taking the mouse events). I beleive there arlready is a "modeless" gui profile.

Another solution would be to add() the new gui to the existing gui so it becomes a part of it (doesn't take all the mouse events if you make sure what you add isn't the entire screen), then you can simply remove() it from the gui.