DarkHorizon
09-04-2009 19:12:43
Hello,
I'm building some of the user interface for my game. One of the elements is a book, depicted below:
Right now I am using a StaticImage as the parent widget, with two WordWrap sub-widgets for displaying text, two Buttons for navigating pages, and two StaticTexts for displaying the page numbers.
A couple of questions:
1) I would like the entire book UI to be mouse-draggable (except for the buttons). Is there a better method of designing this UI element? (E.g. using a Window, and hiding the parent title bar/client area.) What is the best method of handling this?
2) Is there a way that I can easily determine the number of lines that will appear in a WordWrap, given its Caption length? e.g. in the Lorem Ipsum text above, I have no easy way of telling where Page 2 should end and Page 3 should start. Is mVRange what I need to use?
3) I want to use fonts different than in the editor, but there seems to be no way to control these inside the editor; must I iterate through child widgets and set fonts manually in code? What is the best way to handle this?
Thanks for reading!
I'm building some of the user interface for my game. One of the elements is a book, depicted below:
Right now I am using a StaticImage as the parent widget, with two WordWrap sub-widgets for displaying text, two Buttons for navigating pages, and two StaticTexts for displaying the page numbers.
A couple of questions:
1) I would like the entire book UI to be mouse-draggable (except for the buttons). Is there a better method of designing this UI element? (E.g. using a Window, and hiding the parent title bar/client area.) What is the best method of handling this?
2) Is there a way that I can easily determine the number of lines that will appear in a WordWrap, given its Caption length? e.g. in the Lorem Ipsum text above, I have no easy way of telling where Page 2 should end and Page 3 should start. Is mVRange what I need to use?
3) I want to use fonts different than in the editor, but there seems to be no way to control these inside the editor; must I iterate through child widgets and set fonts manually in code? What is the best way to handle this?
Thanks for reading!