[Request] Ingame Help Widget

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 13 Sep 2007, 17:35

Basically what the title says.

I would like for my players to be able to, at the click of a button, pull up a gameplay/unit guide, complete with pictures etc etc etc.

I imagine this wouldn't be all that hard to implement as all the widget needs to be is pretty much a window with a darkish background that referances some sort of file to be displayed.

As I said, ability to show pictures is a plus if not a necessity.

Pendrokar · Post by **Pendrokar** » 13 Sep 2007, 20:31

25% does highlight unit widget while pressing space! :D

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 14 Sep 2007, 00:09

See a widget quantum is making in CA.

quantum · Post by **quantum** » 14 Sep 2007, 16:28

It's gui_rooms, you can find it in the CA sandbox, which is bundled with SVN builds ( http://files.caspring.org/snapshots/latest.zip.php ). The room_unitInfo script for gui_rooms is kinda what you're describing:

http://lcc-clan.com/quant/screen007.png
http://lcc-clan.com/quant/screen002.png

It's still far from finished, though.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 14 Sep 2007, 17:09

Honestly, all I want is 1 page that allows me to describe gameplay and how to play the game. Nothing too complicated

quantum · Post by **quantum** » 14 Sep 2007, 20:27

Sounds simple enough to be someone's first widget

Ok, that's not very helpful.

If you find me in #lua, I'll help you through it.

AF · Post by AF » 14 Sep 2007, 20:50

A lua build menu that had the big images like in that screen of the kbot lab and perhaps some info on each would serve as a great replacement for our current build menu.

BigHead · Post by **BigHead** » 18 Sep 2007, 16:31

work in progress

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 18 Sep 2007, 16:38

w00t springopedia.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 19 Sep 2007, 06:37

Oh fucking sweet! That is perfect BigHead! Thank you!

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 19 Sep 2007, 10:00

Very nice :)

How much formatting control do we have on that?

In terms of dividing the information up into tables, etc, navigation handling, etc, etc?

BigHead · Post by **BigHead** » 19 Sep 2007, 15:57

*word wrapping
*you can change the color of your text
*vertical scrolling
*easily customizable (background color, size, etc ...) and modification-friendly
*there will be 6 tags:
<title>
<image> - "floating" will be supported
<link> - equivalent to <a href>
<heading> - equivalent to <h1>, <h2> ... you can set the size
<li>
<include> - includes another page eg.:navigation at the bottom

and that's all, this is ingame help not mozila firefox

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 19 Sep 2007, 16:44

Dude, that is perfect! Thank you!

Me == Very Excited

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 24 Sep 2007, 21:04

Any News on this?

BigHead · Post by **BigHead** » 29 Sep 2007, 14:24

My semester started on monday and I was quite busy whole week. However I managed to do some work on it today and will release a beta version.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 29 Sep 2007, 15:33

Okay, that quanta thing looks Awesome but I can't imagine playing with all that on the screen simultaneously like that so I assume you typically would have one or two of those frames at any given time.

For the "HTML" like widget... I mean your right it's simple but thats all we really need to start out... and get a simple help tool working.

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[Request] Ingame Help Widget

[Request] Ingame Help Widget