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GUIContainer onMouseEnter

by Robert Fritzen · in Torque 3D Beginner · 08/24/2013 (12:09 pm) · 8 replies

So I was looking through the source and was wondering why the generic mouse handles aren't available for all GUI Objects.

So, I went ahead and added some code to try to turn it on:
//.CPP CODE
IMPLEMENT_CALLBACK( GuiContainer, onMouseEnter, void, (), (),
   "This is called when the mouse cursor moves over the control" );

IMPLEMENT_CALLBACK( GuiContainer, onMouseLeave, void, (), (),
   "This is called when the mouse cursor leaves the control" );

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
void GuiContainer::onMouseEnter(const GuiEvent &event) {
   onMouseEnter_callback();
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

void GuiContainer::onMouseLeave(const GuiEvent &) {
   onMouseLeave_callback();
}

//.H CODE
class  GuiContainer : public GuiControl {
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   protected:   
	   DECLARE_CALLBACK( void, onMouseEnter, () );   
	   DECLARE_CALLBACK( void, onMouseLeave, () );  
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   public:
      void onMouseEnter(const GuiEvent &);
      void onMouseLeave(const GuiEvent &);

I then went ahead and coded up a new tooltip using a gui container for my game and I need the control to remain active while the mouse is over it. But, the onMouseEnter callback is not being triggered. The new callback appears in the list of options when using GuiContainer.dump();

Here is my GUI:
%guiContent = new GuiControl(StoreHoverTooltip) {
   position = "0 0";
   extent = "1024 768";
   minExtent = "8 2";
   horizSizing = "right";
   vertSizing = "bottom";
   profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
   visible = "1";
   active = "1";
   tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile";
   hovertime = "1000";
   isContainer = "1";
   canSave = "1";
   canSaveDynamicFields = "1";

   new GuiContainer(TooltipContainer) {
      margin = "0 0 0 0";
      padding = "0 0 0 0";
      anchorTop = "1";
      anchorBottom = "0";
      anchorLeft = "1";
      anchorRight = "0";
      position = "0 0";
      extent = "400 250";
      minExtent = "8 2";
      horizSizing = "relative";
      vertSizing = "relative";
      profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
      visible = "1";
      active = "1";
      tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile";
      hovertime = "1000";
      isContainer = "1";
      canSave = "1";
      canSaveDynamicFields = "0";

    .
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   };
};

Ideas?
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Torque Owner Nathan Martin
TRON 2001 Network
#1
08/25/2013 (10:49 am)
I don't see any TorqueScript side callback handler functions in your post, like so:
function TooltipContainer::onMouseEnter(%this)
{
   // handle event here
}

function TooltipContainer::onMouseLeave(%this)
{
   // handle event here
}


Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
Phantom Games Development
#2
08/25/2013 (10:58 am)
They're there, I just didn't post them.

Torque Owner Nathan Martin
TRON 2001 Network
#3
08/25/2013 (12:31 pm)
You forgot to make the class header methods virtual as required:
//
   public:  
      virtual void onMouseEnter(const GuiEvent &);
      virtual void onMouseLeave(const GuiEvent &);

Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
Phantom Games Development
#4
08/25/2013 (12:43 pm)
Changing that had no effect either.

Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
Phantom Games Development
#5
08/25/2013 (2:27 pm)
Quick update. I did some more fiddling around with it, and moved the callback to GuiControl (such that I now have mouse event callbacks on all of my controls). I'm finding it very odd that the GuiControl(StoreHoverTooltip) { and every other item in this gui is able to trigger the callback and yet the control I need to trigger it is not, this eludes me because GUIButtons use essentially the exact same code and they work perfectly fine.

If I can't figure this out, I'll just move the container of interest to be the head item and try it that way.

Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
Phantom Games Development
#6
08/26/2013 (10:37 am)
Alright Another Update,

I've got the mouse event to work now by removing the GuiContainer and simply using the internal controls. Now I've got a new problem. I can use the new "tooltip" dialog fine, but when it's up, I can't click any buttons inside the GUI that creates the tooltip.

IE: User cursors over an image, the new tooltip pushes, and the user cannot click any buttons in the gui until the tooltip pops. How do I go about fixing this?

J0linar
#7
08/26/2013 (11:26 am)
if am not mistaken you could do it the way GMK did it with the doors/ useable objects

look up the MIT Version of GMK

its using Raycasts

Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
Phantom Games Development
#8
08/31/2013 (3:19 pm)
@J0: I already got the mouse events working. I'm having an issue with one dialog "covering" up the other one now and I need the functionality of the "covered" dialog.