Advanced HUD Tools

[emspike]

Meh, just screwing around with it. Also, U LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 It's definitely possible to use custom fonts. The tools are right in the surface library.

[moggie100]

Meh, just screwing around with it. Also, U LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 It's definitely possible to use custom fonts. The tools are right in the surface library.

Sure, if you want to write me a mechanism to send a font from one client to the server, then to -all- other hooked clients without it causing lag, be my guest

Seriously - I'll add some fancy fonts to the addon at a later date, but its really impractical to ad-hoc send images about.

[emspike]

I just meant extras included by default. I went on a search and found some potentially useful dingbat fonts.

[moggie100]

Christmas avatar time! </random post>

I've gotten the new rendering component written, and now I'm working on the out-of-frame processing bit

[emspike]

Are the marker tags currently there supposed to work?

[Beer]

I'm sorry if this has been asked/answered countless times already, but I'm not about to go searching through 47 pages of HUD1 and HUD2 discussion. (perhaps a FAQ is in order)

Can HUD2 interface with E2? For example, if I wanted to make a settings/options dialog with derma to control settings for an expression, can clicking on a checkbox modify the value of a variable within my expression on the fly?

I sure hope so... but after reading your wiki page about the built-in math/string functions, I'm a little worried HML is being kept entirely separate from E2 (or wire in general for that matter). Preventing this capability would severely limit its potential.

[Nicolai1]

It can take inputs, so yes.

[Beer]

It can take inputs, so yes.

Good, and output? Derma is useless if it can't output control data (from edit fields, checkboxes, etc) to expressions. If it can input, I'm guessing output is supported too... just checking.

[TomyLobo]

I assume it will have outputs from derma as well. I don't see a problem there, but it's of course moggie's decision

[Magos Mechanicus]

My understanding is it's pencilled in, but as with derma in general for this, nothing is implemented yet.

<derma type="yesno" question="Connect?" output=#Connect />
<derma type="yesno" question="Connect?" output=#Connect textcolor={255,255,255} /
<derma type="yesno" question="Connect?" output=#Connect textcolor={255,255,255,255} />
...
and so forth...

Anyway - I'm probably going to push events to a stack on the SENT for clicks/derma/etc, then use a [clk] input to push events to an output pin in order - that way several people can have the SENT hooked and the events will still be meaningful by the time they get to the server.