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Has the GUI Builder been changed?

by Leandro Eidi · in Torque Game Builder · 05/16/2009 (6:46 am) · 4 replies

I'm trying to do the GUI tutorials here: http://tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/TGB/MiniTutorials , but I can't find anything in the GUI Builder. The tutorial tells me to select a dropdrown list called "New Control" on the top left corner of the screen, but it isn't there. The tutorial tells me to change the profile to "GuiModelessDialogProfile", but this option doens't exist. Are these tutorials outdated or am I doing something wrong?

PS: I posted the same question on the public TGB forum, because I didn't see I had access to this one, that seems to get more attention. Sorry for that. That's the second time I had to create the same topic on two different forums, is there a way to move or delete the first one?
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Torque Owner Leandro Eidi
#1
05/20/2009 (7:21 am)
Should I assume that the GUI Builder on my TGB is unique and nobody else had this problem? I can't create anything because I can't find the "New Control" thing.

Torque Owner Ehrlich
#2
05/20/2009 (11:16 am)
theres a button on to top right corner of the editor, i dont remeber its name right now, you click on it, and a new window will appear, and from there, you can pick the controls you wanna use in your GUI.

Torque Owner Leandro Eidi
#3
05/20/2009 (11:37 am)
Yeah, the button's name is Toggle Palette. Clicking it opens a window with all the controls. Some days ago I tried to double click them, click them once and press enter, right-click them, and nothing happened, so I thought that this Toggle Palette option existed just to show all the existing controls, but not to let us use them. After I read your post, I decided to look at it again and decided to do something I didn't before: click and drag. It worked. Thanks for your reply.

Anyway, someone should update the GUI tutorials (unless I'm the only one who had this problem). All of them tell us to click this inexistent "New Control" dropdown list.

Torque Owner Ehrlich
#4
05/20/2009 (6:36 pm)
i had the same issue that you have, and that's why i try to the max NOT to use the GUI controls. as far as i know, most of us create our GUIs as normal levels, and call them on a different sceneGraph, that way we can make GUIs look better, with animations and stuff... but you have to be carefull on how you manage them, cuz if you dont, you wont be able to interact with your main SceneGraph.