Dialogue\Display problem...Display as background object ?

[Rough Knight]

Hi guys,

Hopefully there is no bis_fnc_stopwatch or something because I have spent too much time on this problem

I am trying to make a stopwatch that appears as a non-interactive object on the players screen [ ie they keep playing while the display is active] and this is what I have so far.

* Stopwatch .paa file which pops up on screen when I call the dialogue.
* Working counter in seconds on the display. Further scripting will be added later to add hours, minutes, seconds and hundreds of seconds.

The problem I have is whenever I call the script the stopwatch pops up fine, but so does the mouse icon so I can not keep playing until I close the dialogue ie it is more an interactive control than a display?

I have enableSimulation = true; which lets the game carry on while the display is up...but still the mouse icon is active to my player can not move until I close the display.

stopwatch.hpp

#define CT_STATIC 0
#define ST_PICTURE 48

#define ST_LEFT 0
#define ST_FRAME 64

#define RACE_TIME 10100

class RscText
{
        type = CT_STATIC;
        idc = -1;
        style = ST_LEFT;
        h = 0.04;
        colorBackground[] = {0, 0, 0, 0};
        colorText[] = {0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 1};
        font = "Bitstream";
        sizeEx = 0.1;
};


class RscPicture
{
        type = CT_STATIC;
        idc = -1;
        style = ST_PICTURE;
        colorBackground[] = {0, 0, 0, 0};
        colorText[] = {1, 1, 1, 1};
        font = "Bitstream";
        sizeEx = 0.04;
};


class dialoguestopwatch
{
  idd = fro_stopwatch;
  movingEnable = false;
  enableSimulation = true;
  
  controlsBackground[] = {ST_BACKGROUND};
  class ST_BACKGROUND : RscPicture
  {
     colorBackground[] = {0, 0.2, 0.4, 0};
     text = "fro_timer\stopwatch.paa";
	 moving = true;
     sizeEx = 0.015;
     x = 0.0;
     y = 0.0;
     w = 0.22;
     h = 0.215;
  };

  objects[] = { };
  controls[] = {FRO_TIMER};
 
  class FRO_TIMER : RscText
  {
  	idc = RACE_TIME;
  	x = 0.09;
  	y = 0.08;
  	w = 0.2;
  	h = 0.04;
    font = "Bitstream";
    sizeEx = 0.05;
	text = "";
  };
};

Then my calling script [only total time in seconds ATM]:

private ["_n", "_time1", "_time2"];

RACE_TIME = 10100;

n = 2;
_n = 0;

_ok = createDialog "dialoguestopwatch";
if (!_ok) then {hint "Problem creating stopwatch!"};

_time1	= time;
_time2	= 0;

while {true} do         //controls to be added later
{
   if (true) then        //controls to be added later
   {
          _time2 = time - _time1;
         _n = round (_time2 * (10 ^ n)) / (10 ^ n);    //time rounded to two decimal points.
         ctrlSetText [RACE_TIME, format["%1", _n]];
	  
         sleep 0.033;	
   };
sleep 0.1;
};

I am hoping there is a dialogue control that allows for a non-interactive display. Can anyone advise me on how to achieve this? Is this the diference between createDialogue and createDisplay?

I hope I haven't been barking up the wrong tree. Thanks heaps.

Rough Knight

[Deadfast]

You need to use cutRsc instead of createDialog (and therefore move your dialoguestopwatch class into RscTitles).

[CarlGustaffa]

Here is an example on how you can structure dialogs and display in very similar manner.

[Rough Knight]

Thanks guys,

I got it working using the cutRsc method. Thanks heaps both of you.

I didn't quite follow that example Carlos, it was a little over my head but I will go back and experiment once I have perfected a few more things.

I am glad for the example because I saw this:

5 cutRsc ["DEFAULT","PLAIN"]; //Removes it as a display

I couldn't work out how to kill the display until I saw that.

Thanks

ROugh Knight

[Deadfast]

You should use "" (empty string) instead of "DEFAULT". Pretty sure the latter will produce an error in RPT (Resource not found).

[Riouken]

This should help you with the time script as well. I dont remember where I got this from but it was a real old time script, I edited it slightly for my needs. Should work for you as well.

while {true} do {
    _seconds = time;
    
    _hours = floor(_seconds / 3600);
    _seconds = _seconds - (_hours * 3600);
    _tensOfMinutes = floor(_seconds / 600);
    _seconds = _seconds - (_tensOfMinutes * 600);
    _minutes = floor(_seconds / 60);
    _seconds = _seconds - (_minutes * 60);
    _tensOfSeconds = floor(_seconds / 10);
    _wholeSeconds = floor(_seconds - (_tensOfSeconds * 10));
    _elapsed ="";


    _elapsed = format ["%1:%2%3:%4%5", _hours, _tensOfMinutes, _minutes,_tensOfSeconds, _wholeSeconds];
    
    
    ctrlSetText [1072, _elapsed];


    
    sleep 1;
    
};