GUI grey-out problem

[James Kay]

I have set up AGS so that the GUI greys out when it can't be accessed.
I also use a custom inventory window.

Now, when I use "LOOK" on an item in the inventory, I switch off the GUI with GUIOff(2); have my charater say something, then switch back on the GUI with, obviously GUIOn(2);
However, at this point the GUI buttons are greyed out until the player moves the mouse cursor over a button, when they pop back to normal again.

Any remedies for this?

[Scummbuddy]

RawRestoreScreen
RawSaveScreen

and i dont think that will help. so maybe this is a new suggestion, a screen refresh?

[Kweepa]

You might be able to hack it by setting the text on a label in the GUI or setting the image on a button or something like that.

[Gilbert]

Hmmm I'm not quite sure if I gat your meaning. But did you try putting a Wait(1); line between that GUIoff(... and DisplaySpeech(... and see what happens?

[James Kay]

No, it's when the GUI is switched back on that the problem occurs. The buttons remains greyed out until rolled over.

[Gilbert]

Hmmm what did you use for displaying the speech, DisplaySpeech() or DisplaySpeechBackground() or what?

[James Kay]

Yeah, display speech.
On the top of my head, the "look at" script of an inventory item goes something like:

GUIOff(2);
DisplaySpeech(EGO, "It's a nuclear-thermal long-range missle launcher.");
GUIOn(2);

Then, at the end there, the LOOK, USE and CLOSE INVENTORY buttons on the GUI are greyed out until rolled over.  

[Gilbert]

Strange, okay to me, what mode was that GUI set to? "Normal" or whatever?

[James Kay]

The GUI is a pop-up one, set to "greyed out" when unusable in the prefs.
I tried UpdateInventory(); and RawSave and ResoreScreen. But to no avail.

I also found that it only stays greyed out if the player moves the mouse cursor in between the GUIOff and GUIOn commands. If I don't move the mouse at all and just carefully click to skip the speech text, the buttons are set to normal when the GUI is switched back on.  

[Pumaman]

can you try with 2.61 beta 1? I think this should be fixed now

[James Kay]

Coolio. Let you know if it works (but I don't doubt your genius!).