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[Red Spot]

Have set up an option in the shell to switch teamcolors, beter said, give the host the option to tweak the teamcolors from within the shell.


This works nicelly, however now you need to press the "Custom" button before the values at the bottom are read by the dll.
I can also set it up so the buttons do no longer highlight the selected color but update the RGB values at the bottom, so I can just let the dll read the RGB values.

However I would really like it to do both, so say when you select the "light blue" color button it stays highlighted but also updates the below values to 0.0.255 (or whatever values are set).

The difference between the 2 settings is caused by the "Radio" flag in the shell file, is there some way to cause them both to work?


eg:
this highlights the button, but ignores the 'button pressed event'

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CreateControl("NoColorsA", "BUTTON")
{
ColorGroup("BLACKBLUE");
Geometry("LEFT", "TOP");
Pos(50, 20); //
Size(60, 9); //
BorderSize(3);
BevelSize(3);
Style("ROLLOVER", "RADIO", "OUTLINE");
Cursor("Highlight");
Font("TINY");
Text("No Color");
UseVar("network.session.ivar35");
Value(0);
NotifyParent("Button::Press", "bNoColorsA");
}

OnEvent("bNoColorsA")
{
Cmd("network.session.ivar37 0");
Cmd("network.session.ivar38 0");
Cmd("network.session.ivar39 0");
}

This uses the 'button pressed event' but always highlights the button

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CreateControl("NoColorsA", "BUTTON")
{
ColorGroup("BLACKBLUE");
Geometry("LEFT", "TOP");
Pos(50, 20); //
Size(60, 9); //
BorderSize(3);
BevelSize(3);
Style("ROLLOVER", "OUTLINE"); // ("ROLLOVER", "RADIO", "OUTLINE");
Cursor("Highlight");
Font("TINY");
Text("No Color");
UseVar("network.session.ivar35");
Value(0);
NotifyParent("Button::Press", "bNoColorsA");
}

OnEvent("bNoColorsA")
{
Cmd("network.session.ivar37 0");
Cmd("network.session.ivar38 0");
Cmd("network.session.ivar39 0");
}

Thanks

[mrtwosheds]

Well done. hmm shouldn't there be 2 lots of numeric entry box's, one for each team?

[Red Spot]

There will be, I was testing how it all worked.

[AHadley]

Does this work with all maps, or just yours?

[Red Spot]

Does this work with all maps, or just yours?

It is set by the dll, so it is map-specific. But in the maps inf file you can set which teamcolor should be used when selecting the map, even custom colors can be specified, or both.

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ivar35 = 0..16 // Team A pre-set color.
ivar36 = 0..16 // Team B pre-set color.

ivar37 = 0..255 // Team A custom color "Red" value.
ivar38 = 0..255 // Team A custom color "Green" value.
ivar39 = 0..255 // Team A custom color "Blue" value.

ivar40 = 0..255 // Team B custom color "Red" value.
ivar41 = 0..255 // Team B custom color "Green" value.
ivar42 = 0..255 // Team B custom color "Blue" value.

[General BlackDragon]

Hi. You're local shell expert here. 

To switch between radio buttons and normal press buttons, you must change 2 things:

1: If radio is in the style, you have to change the notify parent to this: NotifyParent("Button::Select", "NAMEHERE");

When removing Radio, or not using Radio in the style, you must change it back to Button::Press

Your welcome

[Red Spot]

Hi. You're local shell expert here. 

To switch between radio buttons and normal press buttons, you must change 2 things:

1: If radio is in the style, you have to change the notify parent to this: NotifyParent("Button::Select", "NAMEHERE");

When removing Radio, or not using Radio in the style, you must change it back to Button::Press

Your welcome

Many thanks
Works like a charm

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CreateControl("NoColorsA", "BUTTON")
{
ColorGroup("BLACKBLUE");
Geometry("LEFT", "TOP");
Pos(50, 20); //
Size(60, 9); //
BorderSize(3);
BevelSize(3);
Style("ROLLOVER", "RADIO", "OUTLINE");
Cursor("Highlight");
Font("TINY");
Text("No Color");
UseVar("network.session.ivar35");
Value(0);
NotifyParent("Button::Select", "bNoColorsA");
}

OnEvent("bNoColorsA")
{
Cmd("network.session.ivar37 0");
Cmd("network.session.ivar38 0");
Cmd("network.session.ivar39 0");
}

[Red Spot]

Do you by any chance also know if I can make the "Custom" button the selected button if you edit one of the numeric boxes at the bottom ?

This doesnt work, nor does the 'button pressed' event:

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CreateControl("ColorA1", "EDIT")
{
ColorGroup("BLACKBLUE");
Geometry("LEFT", "TOP");
Position(40, 220);
Size(22, 9);
BorderSize(3);
BevelSize(3);
JustifyText("center");
Font("TINY");
Style("ROLLOVER", "OUTLINE");
Cursor("Highlight");
UseVar("network.session.ivar37");
SetIntegerRange("network.session.ivar37", 0, 255);
NotifyParent("Button::Select", "bCustomA");
}

OnEvent("bCustomA")
{
Cmd("network.session.ivar35 16");
}

[General BlackDragon]

um...not really, maybe. you might could just leave a note for the user in the bottom saying they have to press it if using the fields above.

[Red Spot]

um...not really, maybe. you might could just leave a note for the user in the bottom saying they have to press it if using the fields above.

Its not really a big problem, the color-buttons now update the RGB-values at the bottom. So I now can have the dll check if the pre-set color ivars are on 0 or 1 (no teamcolors, or use localprefs), the rest can than be done by letting the dll use the other ivars. But it would have been nice if the button jumps to "Custom" if you do edit a color .. just shows a bit clearer which color you are actually using.

edit: This works if you press enter after typing a value, but as when you tab out of the box or select the next box and it wont trigger its not really that usefull ..

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"Edit::Enter"

[TheJamsh]

This is going to be a problem for people with modified localprefs teamcolors.

[Red Spot]

Why so ?

[Nielk1]

How are you accounting for the gamprefs system? You better note dare phase it out? There are DLL functions to get that data so default should cause the team color system to be used. I can also see this causing monstrous issues if players choose to override team colors. How have you coded to ensure that the client side override and server side gameprefs style settings work?

[General BlackDragon]

how are babies made? 

Sorry, random thought.

Yeah, the client side gameprefs may be overridden but not overwritten.

[Red Spot]

This worked in 1.2, and so far works in 1.3 as well ... Thats all I'm doing.

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if (m_HumanTeamColor == 0)
{
ClearTeamColor(m_StratTeam);
}
else if (m_HumanTeamColor > 1)
{
SetTeamColor(m_StratTeam, m_HumanTColorRed, m_HumanTColorGreen, m_HumanTColorBlue);
}
if (m_CPUTeamColor == 0)
{
ClearTeamColor(m_CPUTeamNumber);
}
else if (m_CPUTeamColor > 1)
{
SetTeamColor(m_CPUTeamNumber, m_CPUTColorRed, m_CPUTColorGreen, m_CPUTColorBlue);
}

From map "MPI: Instant Test" :