Animating a GUI?

[ezra]

hello everyone, I am new to AGS and this is probably a stupid question, but how do you animate a GUI (like in the game Apprentice). I want to be able to put my mouse in a certain position (bottom of screen) and then my custom GUI will SLIDE up and when my mouse moves away it will SLIDE down.

thanx heaps

[Ben]

First, place your GUI so it's y value is at the bottom of the screen (either 200 or 240). Then at the beginning of the global script, add this:

int gui_ypos = 1;

And in the repeatedly_execute section of the GLOBAL script, add this:

if((mouse.y > 194) && (gui_ypos > 0)){
 SetGUIPosition(GUI#,0, gui_ypos - 240); //where GUI# is the name or number of the GUI you're moving
 gui_ypos ++;
}

That should make the gui move up when the mouse is near the bottom of the screen. I may have misses something, so be sure to test it