[Jeroen]

No matter what I try there seems to always be a space in between the contextmenu items, causing them to never match up properly.



Like there's always something like an <itemgap>2</itemgap> in there

PHP Code:

<include name="contextMenuButton">
    <font>small</font>
    <textcolor>Color4</textcolor>
    <focusedcolor>Color1</focusedcolor>
    <texturenofocus>dialogs/list-nofocus.png</texturenofocus>
    <texturefocus>dialogs/list-focus.png</texturefocus>
    <height>38</height>
    <align>left</align>
    <textoffsety>4</textoffsety>
    <textoffsetx>20</textoffsetx>
    <pulseonselect>false</pulseonselect>
</include> 


can't imagine I'm missing something?

[Jezz_X]

Sadly its hard coded

[Hitcher]

I had this problem when I was modding Aeon but can't for the life of me remember the answer, I'm sure Jezz or JM will be along to explain it.

EDIT: There you go, lol.

[Jeroen]

Thanks guys

[jmarshall]

After Dharma we'll rip it out and throw a grouplist there instead.

[Hitcher]

[Jeroen]

cheers

[Hitcher]

Can I also request that we have an item count available as well please?

The reason being so we can slide the control if it's got lots of entries like in the screenshot below.



This is the first time I've seen this many entries in the context menu but I'd like to keep the current y position unless it's absolutely necessary to change it.

Thanks.

[pecinko]

A better way, imho, would be to have it verticaly centered, regardless of number of items in it.

[pieh]

I'm currently working on allowing using grouplist in context menu and need some feedback from You.

Currently we have 3 background images (top,center,bottom) stretched/positioned based on size of buttons. I think that using single image with <bordertexture> and making stretching more inteligent (preserving gaps between background image control and buttons) could allow deprecation of these 3 images. This is somewhat important because grouplist can have horizontal orientation and these 3 images were clearly designed for vertical style (not that horizontal grouplist in context menu is not weird)

Do You accept this idea?

[Jezz_X]

Really a grouplist shouldn't need a background image for somthing like the context menu because you can add your own stuff to it already.

Take confluences new shutdown menu its already a grouplist that grows and shrinks depending on whats enabled and stays centered you just need to draw it right

[pieh]

yeah, problem with that that top and bottom image are in grouplist and content of grouplist isn't dynamicly created. And also making that buttons textures to include background and border seems like a little hackery for me - I would rather avoid such solutions (if possible of course). To be honest any "easy" solution have its limitations and would require weird hacks to do something else

I think most flexible would be to allow some kind of alignment one control to another, something like:

Code:

<posx>Control(x).Left - 20</posx>
<posy>Control(x).Bottom</posy>
<width>Control(x).Width + 40</width>

This would allow getting rid of hardcoded background images totally and possibly could benefit other areas?

[Jezz_X]

my issue with what you seem to be suggesting then is we can't have anything but the buttons auto filled and one background stretched?

How then can we add things like the mouse/touchscreen support "close the dialog" buttons and titles like so



Really all anyone wants is to be able to set the spacing between the buttons thus the grouplist. I seriously doubt anyone will want to put all those text buttons horizontal

[pieh]

that's good point - I always tend to go with some overkill solutions - thanks for bringing me back to earth

how about just adding optional tag (just in DialogButtonMenu.xml)?

Code:

<window>
  <itemgap>X</itemgap>
[...]

[Jezz_X]

I'm more than happy with that solution the only other issue we had was too many items needing scrolling like in hitchers screenshot but the eden code has already removed a heap of those buttons

that's good point - I always tend to go with some overkill solutions - thanks for bringing me back to earth

how about just adding optional tag (just in DialogButtonMenu.xml)?

Code:

<window>
  <itemgap>X</itemgap>
[...]