Guibutton animation when mouseover (Solved)

[A-Hed]

Hello!

Im totally new on scripting in 2.7 and am in need of help.

This is the problem: I am trying to get a gui button, Optionsbutton, in the upper gui menu to animate when the mousecursor is over it. The button needs a view for animating and thats where the problem is. I can get the button to animate either way and there doesn't seem to be a way to script it easily like using MouseOverGui.

Any help will be appreciated, this may be very simple.

Thanks!

/A-Hed

[Scorpiorus]

Try putting the following script in the repeatedly_execute global function:

Button *btnOptions ----> your GUI button to animate

at the top of the global script:

int btnOptions_normalGraph = XXX; // must specify it here to restore after animation

bool btnOptions_isAnimating = false;

int view = XXX;
int loop = XXX;
int delay = XXX;

repeatedly execute:


if (GUIControl.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y) == btnOptions)
{
   if (btnOptions_isAnimating == false)
   {
      btnOptions.Animate(view, loop, delay, eRepeat);
      btnOptions_isAnimating = true;
   }
}
else
{
   if (btnOptions_isAnimating == true)
   {
      btnOptions.NormalGraphic = btnOptions_normalGraph;
      btnOptions_isAnimating = false;
   }
}

[A-Hed]

Thank you very much for the reply, I would have never thought of it to be that much scripting!

When I have copied this into the global script and am about to test the game it says, under the repeatedly execute, that isAnimating is an undefined symbol. I think that is quite strange because the isAnimating seems to work fine on the first part of the script.

If anyone has got a reason for why this is happening I would appreciate it very much!

Thanks!

/A-hed

[Scorpiorus]

Did you change btnOptions_isAnimating to isAnimating?

It must match the one that's used in repeatedly_execute.

[edit]
So make sure that the name that's declared at the top of the main global script is *exactly* the same as that used inside the repeatedly_execute function.

[A-Hed]

This is very strange, by looking at your scripting I can understand how it's supposed to work but when I test the game it's doing something completely different!

When I hold the mousecursor over the Guibutton it changes to the Guibuttons MouseOver image (to the image I used to have) and when I hold the mousecursor besides the Guibutton it animates as it should do. So when I hold the mouse over the button it changes to the mouseover image, when I'm not it animates correctly.

I tried changing some isAnimating from false to true and vice versa, it didn't help though so I changed them back.

Thanks for the replies, hope anyone can help me figure this out cause I'm stuck.

/A-Hed

[Scorpiorus]

Here is a test game to make it easier to understand what may be wrong:

http://www.geocities.com/scorpiorus82/animategb.zip (copy&paste the link)

Hope it helps

[A-Hed]

Thank you very much!!

I know what I did wrong now, very stupid mistake but it's solved now.

Thanks again, now I can get back to studying on how to script in of 2.7 

/A-Hed

[Candle]

Cool Scorpiorus, that will come in handy for me .
We need more stuff like that for people .

[Scorpiorus]

Thank you very much!!

No problem, I'm glad it works!
The reason I decided to upload an example is because it's rather difficult to figure out what bit is wrong.

Cool Scorpiorus, that will come in handy for me .
We need more stuff like that for people .

You know, I entirely agree -- with working test games it's much easier to figure out the problem than if you post the code directly -- no copy&paste issues in that case.