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AGS Support => Beginners' Technical Questions => Topic started by: Krantz on Sat 27/01/2007 04:08:04

Title: Text Window GUI
Post by: Krantz on Sat 27/01/2007 04:08:04
I am experimenting with customizing the appearance of the normal text messages.  I managed to change the colors of the font and background, but what I really want to do is change its X-Y position on the screen, but I see no place to change that.  Isn't it possible? 

Another weird thing is that my text boxes are now inexplicably bordered by blue cups!!!  It looks pretty cool, but WTF!?  How do change that?  I don't even know what I did to make that happen.
Title: Re: Text Window GUI
Post by: Akatosh on Sat 27/01/2007 10:38:20
As far as I know, you cannot directly manipulate the X/Y-coordinates of the text window GUI. Alas, you can use the Display At command.

Quote from: ManualDisplayAt (50,50,100, "This is a message");
will display the message at coordinates 50,50 in a box 100 pixels wide.

Also, the blue cup thing happens if you don't use images for the buttons surrounding your text GUI. To stop that, change the images. Alas, they shouldn't be bigger than about 4x4 pixels; otherwise, the results will be quite... interesting.