Graal3 GUI
 

I noticed that you could create your own GUI like the playerlist with graal3. What I was wondering is if we could customize the graphics for the graal3 GUI? It just wouldn't fit in well with servers with differant themes.

Im not sure the exact command, you can look it upo in a document, but it's like newguibitmapwindow(), and then there's a value you set for the image name.

yes but im sure they use multiple images for like the sides, bottom and top, and the filling as well as buttons... Where would the template for those be?

Hmm, well for the buttons, its newguibitmapbuttonctrl or something, and as for the multiple images, you'll need to contact sterfan or soemone else who would know. I myself will look to see what I can figure out.

Where would it be under?

You can create new profiles. If you want to base it on an existing profile and only modify a few values, you could e.g. do
new GuiTextProfile("MyBigTextProfile") {
fontsize = 30;
}

and in the gui object then do
profile = MyBigTextProfile;

From the docu you can get the attributes of a profile:
GuiControlProfile:
autosizeheight - boolean
autosizewidth - boolean
bitmap - string
border - integer
bordercolor - string
bordercolorhl - string
bordercolorna - string
borderthickness - integer
cankeyfocus - boolean
cursorcolor - string
fillcolor - string
fillcolorhl - string
fillcolorna - string
fontcolor - string
fontcolorhl - string
fontcolorlink - string
fontcolorlinkhl - string
fontcolorna - string
fontcolorsel - string
fontsize - integer
fonttype - string
justify - string
linespacing - integer
modal - boolean
mouseoverselected - boolean
numbersonly - boolean
opaque - boolean
returntab - boolean
soundbuttondown - string
soundbuttonover - string
tab - boolean
textoffset - string
transparency - float

The bitmap defines what look the window, text field, scroll bar etc. gets

Any chance you could post the code of the other profiles?

Ok here. Colors are often having values like "255 255 255" but are basicly an array of 3 values, you can also write "255,255,255" or {255,255,255}

Wow now if i ever need a better gui I can make one :)


Care tyo tell the command on how to get rid of the x, -, and + so that you cant delete the window?

What is the name of the image with the look of the GUI though stefan? And where is it found in the graal folder?

Edit:

graal2001\levels3d\gui
is where I found it... we can specify the imagenames to use for gui?

He already explained it. 'bitmap' is the string used to define the image used for the border, scroll, etc.

sorry, not so proficient with GS2.

Goin to have jacco teach me :P

To specify which window buttons are visible use the attributes canmove, canclose, canminimize, canmaximize

The default gfx for the gui are in levels3d/gui, if you want to make your own then you can base it one of those. Each gfx contains several "subgfx" which are put in the image file in a grid.

I don't know how you get rid of the top bar, but maybe something like canclose = false;?

You can't get rid of it, unless you edit it out of the image. But using canclose = canmaximize = canminimize = false; will get rid of the buttons.

ok thanks

If you don't wan't the title then just use any other control, set "canmove = true;" or "canresize = true;" to be able to move and resize it like a normal window

Update for profiles:
You can change the color of a gui object without creating a new profile now:

When setting "useownprofile = true" then the gui object will create a new profile, copying the existing profile you have specified. All further profile modifications will only affect the current gui object. In this example it is setting the font color to "blue".

Sorry, this is almost a month old, but, your example breaks down like this:

-new GuiTextCtrl("the text file the player has edited goes here") ?
profile = "GuiTextProfile"; --this is where you specify the profile to copy?

Do you have to create the new profile.txt, or will it just take the existing one and use it, but replace the images?

Where do you put these images and .txt files online and offline?

You're not editing any files. It's just basically dynamically changing a GUI profile (settings/colors) for the one GUI object, you shouldn't need to upload anything.

Edit:

Let's say you have this code to create a window:

NPC Code:

---

//#CLIENTSIDE

function onCreated() {

  new GuiWindowCtrl("Test_Window") {

    profile = "GuiWindowProfile";

    position = "0 0";

    extent = "350 350";

    canMove = true;

    canResize = canMaximize = canClose = false;

    tile = true;

    text = "Test Window";



    new GuiTextCtrl("Test_Text") {

      profile = "GuiTextProfile";

      position = "60 30";

      text = "Test";

    }

  }

}

---

It will create a window such as this:
http://riot.delteria.com/gui_normprofile.png
Notice the text is fairly hard to read, now add these three lines to the "Test_Text" control to change the font color and size:

NPC Code:

---

      useownprofile = true;

      profile.fontSize = "25";

      profile.fontColor = {0, 0, 0};

---

You get something more like this:
http://riot.delteria.com/gui_ownprofile.png
The text now contains all the information contained in "GuiTextProfile" only changing the color and size.

well, that explains it better. (still new go the gui controls).

What are the controls for changing the profile / bitmap image? (GUI Image). I was searching for those, and this thread was one of the only ones I could find. I'm trying to use my own images that I'm making.

The images you should look at for reference are in your Graal4\levels3d\gui\ folder.

Yeah, I see that, and I see that there is one main image that has most of the stuff on it. But what would I do if I had custom scroll buttons, etc.

Make sure your scroll buttons follow the format of those in levels32/gui/

Then do what ForgottenLegacy said.

You can make several images for buttons and check boxes or so, and use that for the bitmaps, for a variety of buttons. For consistancy, you should make a GuiProfile and use that. Here's how you do it:

1) Create the profile itself, it's the 'GuiControlProfile' object, and you treat it like you do any other Gui object:
The 'NAME' is how you assign the profile, so I have my window profile named to 'KaidennWindow', and my MLText to 'KaidennMLText'. I do this because it is easier to manage and simpler to use.

2) After the first line, you look up GuiControlProfile in newfeatures_client.txt and alter whatever you please. Colours are in hex strings, like "FF 00 FF" for purple or "00 FF 00" for green.

3) Inside the thing you want to alter, like your GuiWindowCtrl for example, assign the profile:
Remember to use quotes for 'NAME' otherwise it'll think it's a var, but you do not need quotes when you make the profile. You can still use the 'useownprofile' and 'profile.param = value' things to alter the profile for that Gui object only.

I think someone wrote a docu on profiles, anyone know who and where it is?

Actually the profile variable is now pointing to an object, for compatibility it is also accepting if you assign a string though, it will search for the profile object with that string as name then.

Would be good to make a docu for GUI I think, also explaining the general concept about the GUI controls, events etc. Also the gui editor needs to be updated, its almost two years old now and needs new icons and support the new controls.