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suggesting some modifications in tutorial:Simple HUD - LOGGED (TDOC-260)

by Ahsan Muzaheed · in Site Feedback · 08/08/2011 (10:18 pm) · 1 replies

in tutorial:Simple HUD(http://docs.garagegames.com/torque-3d/official/content/documentation/GUI%20Editor/Tutorials/Gameoverlay.html)
there are some confusing things for beginner like me.


confusion 1:

in
STEP 1:

Quote:
Set its property to:
property text: Time
property text: 00 // confusion here
property name: lblTime

it should be:
property name: lblTime
property text: Time:00 //seems no confusion


confusion 2:

Quote:
Left Text property text: Clicks:
Right Text property text: 00 // confusion here
Right Text property name: lblClicks

it should be:
property name: lblClicks
property text: Clicks:00 //seems no confusion



confusion 3:

Quote:
"If you think the black text will not show up in your project you could always add a GuiPanelCtrl"

but there is no GuiPanelCtrl,it is named GuiPanel.
(a search bar to find any ctrl from a huge stock could be a great help).



confusion 4:

in the whole tutorial there should be more picture on step1 and step 2.



confusion 5:
(not necessary,but may be helpful)


Quote:
This is how the function should look with our new line of code at the end.

function PlayGui::onWake(%this)
{
// Turn off any shell sounds...
// sfxStop( ... );

$enableDirectInput = "1";
activateDirectInput();

// just update the action map here
moveMap.push();

// hack city - these controls are floating around and need to be clamped
schedule(0, 0, "refreshCenterTextCtrl");
schedule(0, 0, "refreshBottomTextCtrl");

schedule(100,0, updateDisplay);//our new schedule
}


updated above code according to t3d 1.1 could be helpful(for those who r new in programming).


and also see this comment:
http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/126635/1#comment-811120

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#1
08/09/2011 (9:29 am)
I went ahead and logged this under ticket TDOC-260. Thanks for the feedback Muzaheed.