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Originally Posted by hocking
Is there anyway to get the Message Log, Officer Icons, and control dials (speed, compass, and depth) boxes at the bottom of the screen to be slide out visuals that only appear when the mouse is hovered over that area. Currently these items appear at the bottom of the screen at all times. It would be nice if they were visible only when your mouse was placed in that area. Don't know if this is possible or not.
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I have done this already and it's pretty straightforward. I presume you have at least a basic familiarity with the menu_1024_768.ini file. Just put the subgroups on sliders. The trick is that you have to extend the parent item about 10 px into the screen, while keeping everything else off-screen. This gives an (invisible) tab for the mouse to "catch" and trigger the slider. The message bar is the simplest case (the way I have implemented it), so here are the changes as an example:
;=======================================
; THE MESSAGE BAR ON THE BOTTOM LEFT
;=======================================
[G3F I153]
Name=Group messages
Type=1026;Menu group
ItemID=0x3F040000
ParentID=0x3F000000
;Pos=140,131,406,130
Pos=140,140,406,140
Color=0xFFFFFFFF
VertSlide=-130
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[G3F I158]
Name=Bkgr
Type=1031;Stat bmp array
ItemID=0x3F040001
ParentID=0x3F040000
;Pos=0,0,406,129
Pos=0,-10,406,130
Materials=1
Display=0;No stretch
Mat 0=data/menu/gui/layout/bkgr.tga
MatFlags=0x1
TexFmt=0x9
Drag=false
BmpState=1
NeedFocus=true
SelOne=false
IdGroup=0
StatesColors=0xFFFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFFFF
Because I use voice command, I play without any visible GUI. I also linked vanjast's new TVR to the WE button, so it pops up when that button is clicked. But that is because of the constraints of voice command. You could just make it a slider or a drag-on. I use the same "invisible tab" technique to provide a handle for all my draggables. (You'd better know where you put them!)
Van1920x1080 really gives good-looking 3D screens. When you get all the GUI parts off-screen, they look even better.
Please post how well this works out for you.