[Livin]

i'd like to be able to customize the button scroller to have an offset display like this...


can this be done... if not, jm, can you add this feature to the control?

[Chokemaniac]

the small stuff in the left panels will probably be unreadable

[Livin]

i'm sorry if it was not clear...

i'm only wanting to add the "curved" effect for the buttonscroller.

not the rest of the screen.

[Chokemaniac]

ah yea sorry - forgot to answer that...

its not possible yet.

[bobrooney_78]

however you could make it with "normal" buttons...

[jmarshall]

the biggest issue is: how would one define the curve??

[Livin]

jm,
you could define a center position and then define an image offset.

the offset would take the position of the image position previous to it... previous being one image above or one image below depending on its postion from the center image, if it is above or below the center.

it would use the starting coordinates of the images incase image sizes were different.

example using real buttonscroller code:

<controlgroup>
<control>
<description>home buttons</description>
<type>buttonscroller</type>
<id>300</id>
<posx>370</posx>
<posy>120</posy>
; **new code for offset**
<imgoffsetx>30</imgoffsetx>
<imgoffsety>30</imgoffsety>
; **new code for offset**
<width>350</width>
<height>100</height>
<buttongap>5</buttongap>
<numbuttons>3</numbuttons>
<defaultbutton>2</defaultbutton>
<orientation>vertical</orientation>
<align>left</align>
<aligny>center</aligny>
<movement>0</movement>
<wraparound>yes</wraparound>
<smoothscrolling>no</smoothscrolling>
<alpha>100</alpha>
<font>font14</font>
<textoffsetx>90</textoffsetx>
<textoffsety>2</textoffsety>
<texturefocus>-</texturefocus>
<texturenofocus>-</texturenofocus>
<textcolor>ffffffff</textcolor>
<onleft>75</onleft>
<onright>75</onright>
<onup>300</onup>
<ondown>300</ondown>
</control>

this would be very cool becasue you could make all sorts of displays depending on if you used vertical or horiztontal. some 'bad' visual examples...

vertical:

           image4
       image2
 image1
       image3
           image5


hortizonal:

   image1
        image 2
             image3
                  image4

or

                    image1
                image2
           image3
      image4


and so on...

[jmarshall]

the only issue i have with this is it complicates an already complicated control for little real benefit.

i don't have time right now to do something like this. perhaps someone else will.

[Opaeh]

hi,

i have another question concerning the buttonscroller:
i tried to put the scroller into the hifi-skin. it seems not to be possible to put any overlay-graphics/pictures over the scroller ( *klick* and look at the round graphic on the left. here it´s done withe the standard-buttons). the scroller is always on top. did i do anything wrong or is this feature not implemented yet ?

thanks and greetz
opaeh

[Chokemaniac]

yea the scroller is always rendering on top somehow...

[jmarshall]

it renders in the order it finds the controls in the .xml file. if you put the image after the scroller, then it should render that after the scroller (thus over the top).

[Opaeh]

okay, you call it "rendering"...

i think i managed it by putting the image after the scroller.
i´ll check it once more in the evenening, although i´m quite sure scroller and image were in the right order.

thank you so far.

[Opaeh]

i´ve now checked the renedering in the home-screen. i put the scroller in the first position, right before any images, like background etc. and there´s no rendering of the scroller. it was still on top of everything.
is it a bug or the way it must be..?

[jmarshall]

will look into it this evening, given enough time.

[Streaker]

jonathan,

did you find out if there was a rendering bug?

mark