Separate Text Box (SOLVED)

[DCillusion]

Anything going on with separate GUI's for Text & Speech?

[Pumaman]

Care to clarify what you're asking?

[DCillusion]

Sorry - where you can have 1 GUI-box for speech & another for standard text.  I was having problems before when I wanted to make King's Quest speech view, (with borders around it), but I wanted a GK view for information, (text displayed under the action with no borders).  AGS allows for 1 modifiable GUI-box that it uses for both.

It was on the "to-do" list before, & I know the Object-Based scripting, obviously, took priority.

[Ashen]

I might've missed your point, but couldn't you just change between the GUIs using SetTextWindowGUI(gui)?

[DCillusion]

Am I that stupid.....?

I set my Text window to GUI-X & then my Speech window will be different?

[Ashen]

Yeah, it still uses the same GUI for Text and Speech, but you can use SetTextWindowGUI() to change between them during gameplay, so it looks like two seperate GUIs. E.g.:

Code: ags

SetTextWindowGUI (4);
DisplaySpeech (EGO, "Hey.");
SetTextWindowGUI (5);
Display ("Hey, yourself.");

(Or create custom functions that change for you)
As I say I might've missed your point but, if not, I doubt allowing seperate GUIs is very high priority, since it's easy enough to work around.

[DCillusion]

That's the exact answer to my question.  It would be nice to have the windows fully separate, but this will work, thanks

[Pumaman]

Ah yes I remember what you're asking for now, I really should have implemented this by now, it's rather a glaring omission.

[strazer]

It was on the "to-do" list before, & I know the Object-Based scripting, obviously, took priority.

Hm, which entry is it?
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/tracker.php?action=detail&id=394
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/tracker.php?action=detail&id=444

[Pumaman]

I'd say BB394.