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PopUpMenuProfile GUI

by Jamal Moon · in Technical Issues · 06/09/2008 (6:52 pm) · 2 replies

I have been working on adding more game options but there is one part I cant get to work!!! For the game types, I want to make a PopUpMenu GUI so that the following names would show up: CTF (capture the flag), KOTH (king of the hill), and Campaign. I looked at other samples from the original options but I still cant figure how they did it. I could use a check box, but if the player selects more than one game type, it can cause some problems. Is there another GUI I should use? If not, how do I use the PopUp GUI?
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Torque Owner Gary Preston
#1
06/10/2008 (4:09 am)
Add the GUI control with a suitable profile:

new GuiPopUpMenuCtrl(GameModeCombo) 
{
     canSaveDynamicFields = "1";
      Profile = "GuiPopUpMenuProfile";
      HorizSizing = "right";
      VertSizing = "bottom";
      position = "350 100";
      Extent = "230 22";
      MinExtent = "8 2";
      Visible = "1";
      maxLength = "255";
      maxPopupHeight = "200";
};

Somewhere, before the code, define the available modes
$Game::GameModes[0] = "DM";
$Game::GameModes[1] = "TDM";
$Game::GameModes[2] = "CTF";
$Game::GameModesCount = 3;

Then in onWake for the gui it's a part (lets assume it's called LevelSelectGUI) of do

function LevelSelectGUI::onWake(%this)
{
   gameModeCombo.clear();

   for (%i=0; %i < $Game::GameModesCount; %i++)
   {
       GameModeCombo.add( $Game::GameModes[%i], %i );
   }

   // You may want to store the last played game mode ID in a pref and set it here rather
   // than always defaulting back to 0
   GameModeCombo.setSelected( 0 );
}

function GameModeCombo::onSelect( %this, %id, %text )
{
   %modeName = $Game::GameModes[%id]
   echo("Player has selected the game mode -" SPC  %modeName );
}

Torque Owner Jamal Moon
#2
06/10/2008 (5:22 pm)
YAY!!!!! I got it work!
Thanks for you help.