Action text too close to cursor / Action-Text zu nahe am Cursor

#1, by kloot Friday, 11. April 2014, 14:33 13 years ago

Hello, I'm wondering if there is a super simple solution for this...
We're having our action text drawn next to the cursor per Visionaire's built in functionality. Our cursor is a bit bigger though, so it almost overlaps the text. Is there a way to offset the position of the text field a few pixels?
Thanks!

Deutsch:
Hallo, wir lassen unseren Action-Text von Visionaires Standardfunktion neben den Cursor setzen. Allerdings ist unsere Cursorgrafik etwas größer, sodass sie den Text beinahe überlappt. Kann man das Textfeld irgendwie verschieben?
Danke!

#2, by afrlme Friday, 11. April 2014, 15:51 13 years ago

hmm maybe with the registerHookFunction & getActionText? I've not actually used it for action texts before so the code block is a guess on my part - off the top of my head.

local pos

function aText(text)
 pos = text:getPoint(VTextPosition)
 text:setValue(VTextPosition, {x=pos.x + 50, y = pos.y})
 return true
end

registerHookFunction("getActionText", "aText")

Like I said... I've not tested this at all & I usually only use the hookfunction for manipulating displayed text.

* edit: doesn't work. sorry. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head at the minute either as I'm half asleep.

#3, by kloot Sunday, 13. April 2014, 13:26 13 years ago

Hi ARFLme, thanks for your reply!
After reading the wiki a bit, it seems to me that getActionText is actually designed to let you set the action text string for a given mouse position x & y? http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/RegisterHookFunction - seems like a misnomer and should be called setActionText... ?
Anyway, if I can't access the action text textfield, and I can't use the above function to read out the current action text, is there another way to find out what the current action text is or to draw it somewhere?
Thanks!

#4, by Alex Sunday, 13. April 2014, 13:29 13 years ago

getActionText returns the displayed action text (must return a string value). It's called getActionText and not setActionText because it is a hook function - the engine calls this function to get the current action text.

#5, by afrlme Sunday, 13. April 2014, 14:29 13 years ago

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Hi ARFLme, thanks for your reply!
After reading the wiki a bit, it seems to me that getActionText is actually designed to let you set the action text string for a given mouse position x & y? http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/RegisterHookFunction - seems like a misnomer and should be called setActionText... ?
Anyway, if I can't access the action text textfield, and I can't use the above function to read out the current action text, is there another way to find out what the current action text is or to draw it somewhere?
Thanks!
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Aye sorry mate, I was struggling with the generated syntax example/explanation of it - why I have been creating hand written versions of each function once I've tested them & can provide working examples. I've not gotten round to the registerHookFunction yet.

I didn't see many options in the data structure in regards to action text anyway.

@ Alex: could you provide a working example of what it would look like please?

#6, by Alex Sunday, 13. April 2014, 14:38 13 years ago

I've added some examples for the registerHookFunction code, so the next time I upload the generated wiki documentation these examples will be included.

here is the getActionText example:

function myActionText(mousePos)
    -- individual action text: object name (in current language) of object below cursor, if there is no object then 'empty' is shown as action text
    local obj = game:getLink(VGameCurrentObject)
    if obj:getId().tableId == eObjects then
      return 'current object: ' .. obj:getTextStr(VObjectName)
    end
    return 'empty'
end
registerHookFunction("getActionText", "myActionText")

#7, by afrlme Sunday, 13. April 2014, 15:26 13 years ago

Cheers Alex