hint styled dialog

[Zaphod]

Hi there,

how can i make dialogs look like a hint (with round corners) ?

[T_D]

Try type=0 and style=128.

[ColonelSandersLite]

That shouldn't cut it on it's own. You need to set the background to a paa with a rounded corner. You can actually use the same paa used in the hint box to do it. All you've got to do is look it up in ui.pbo.

[Zaphod]

that was my first thought, but i didn't find any paa that looks like a hint... i'll take a look again, but i looked some times...

i found some ui_* graphics with separated corner graphics, but they are not round

[ColonelSandersLite]

UI.pbo\data\ui_corner_ca.paa

You'll probably want to put a copy of the file in your actual mission or project or whatever. When I did my particle parameter utility, a patch came out while I was in the middle of it and they changed the paths to the paas I used. It's happened before, and it can happen again, so it's better safe than sorry.

Oh, and you may want to try
style = 512;

[Zaphod]

ok the image is a upper left corner (looks like radio commands) ... can i rotate images?

and what does these styles affekt?.. don't see any changes on images, frames or other resources?

Regards,
zap

[CrashDome]

How about a completely transparent dialog with a groupbox control?

You can see them here (green,blue areas):
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Image:SOW_AE2.jpg

The background is not transparent in the pics, but it can be.

[Zaphod]

hmm ... so frame border styled can have round corners?? or is this a just big background image created in a grafik software?

that's what i'm dreaming of .. just to add a style and that's it... but
all i tried failed

but it looks nice CrashDome!... how to do it?!

[ColonelSandersLite]

One of the styles will stretch the image to fill the specified area and mirror and flip it for the other quadrants. I'm not positive which exact style it is, but it's used in the ui elements. You'll have to look it up.

[Zaphod]

hmmm .... so who has the hint for me how to do it? ... all these suggestions are quite good as i come closer ....

and how is a standard hint done? i can't find any paa image representing this dark grey one.

and i still can't wait CrashDome to answer about his suggestion

Regards,
Zap