As I work on all the guis, hotspots, cursors, walkable areas to put off making that last pesky walk cycle, I came across the customized text window feature.
The problem is, that I can't seem to find a way to move the gui anywhere except smack in the middle of the screen. I've tried gText.Y=200 and a few other things that seemed to make sense (it's a bit late now and I can't remember what all gave me an error.
Is there a way that I can manually set the coordinates of this gui?
(http://www.asmedleydesigns.com/game/example.png)
Text windows are automatically centred on screen (as when used with Display() ) by default.
To display the text window at a specific position you can use the DisplayAt() or DisplayAtY() functions.
I tried setting DisplayAtY (200, "message"); but that doesn't launch into a conversation, it only gives me the speech/message text at that coordinate. I would like to move the dialog options down towards the bottom.
Or am I completely misunderstand things here and am putting the script in the wrong place with the wrong variables? I was putting it in the global script.
Sorry to be such a pest about this, I spent so much time customizing the rest of the gui windows, I would like to do this last one for conformity's sake.
Have you tried gYourGuiName.setposition(xx, xx)?
I have tried gText.SetPosition(50, 100);
but it doesn't seem to have done anything, the dialog options still appear in the center of the screen and often covers up the character while she's talking.
Custom text windows and a gui for dialog options are two different things.
You can just set the position of the GUI by selecting that GUI and setting the top and left values (in the events tab). Try setting those both to 0, the GUI should then be in the top left.
I got it to work, I thought that "text Gui" was what I needed. I guess that's what you get when you try to learn something at 3am.
Thanks for the help guys, now I just have to tweak it so the text is centered.