Text Popups

[Shando]

Hi All,

Not sure if this should go here, or in the scripting section.....

Is it possible to show a popup, slightly offset from the cursor location, using the "Custom - Mouse Over" function in the Visual GUI Editor?

I'm trying to display a couple of words (max 25 characters) when the player moves the cursor over a button in my GUI. These words should fade out (or disappear) after a couple of seconds.

The main reason I need this is that the images on the buttons will change frequently and some of them look fairly similar. Since my 2D artwork skills are extremely limited , I can't see a simple way of showing the differences in the actual images, other than having the words permanently displayed on the images.

Thanks in advance

Shando

[SolarPortal]

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible, but it seems there are quite a few GUI features i need to get my head around lol
Just figured out how to display a table data grid for the pause menu and got a list of HDD files from a folder to display in the GUI from lua

i have added it to your other list of GUI features that need added or worked out.. so please bear with me, as time is very short at the moment and trying to focus on the main tasks for release lol

Just ideas that might work...
* Call a lua command to show the image. Grab the mouse X / Y, then set the PosX and PosY of the element using the gui.setPosY() function or use the setProperty() for "top" and "left". If you set the element as a position absolute and root to the full body. Then you will be able to position it based on screen coords. As for fading, this could be done using the setProperty() again and change the "background-color" over time aswell as the text "color". for the colors, use could use the "RGBA(0,0,0,255)" css value for color or use hex as #ffffff00(white, then the last 2 are transparency). obviously, change the colors to what you need

* the other way that it could be done is as a seperate document that you load, then show / hide at a certain position.

[Shando]

[SolarPortal]

[epsilonion]

[SolarPortal]

there is much to do with the vgui editor, but when its underway, documents will be written also to give some control over what is going on lol

p.s. can't get on discord coz broadband is over the limit.