[REL] Three SlideOut Menu for 1.2 Patch

[ottos]

Hi all,
Add a new funcion "ExtraCompass on TorpedoSettingPanel".
it is a little improvement, but I suppose it will be useful for you.



- Can watch Gyroangle indicator while operate TorpedoSettingPanel without changing view.
- Circulate only direction dial(outside dial), so you can read easier than original one on Position Keeper Panel.
- Function as Direction indicator on UZO,Periscope view and 2D Attack Map.

[known issue]
Each Gyroangle Indicator <---- ; Fore fish. <-<-- ; Aft fish. appears automatically by game code.
unfortunately this game code prepared only one, so both indicator appears always on original Position keeper Panel.

JSGME compliant file:
http://rapidshare.com/files/28567470...lideOutMenu.7z
( *not stand alone version, include two Patterns, A: ExCompass+ImpRetroNavTools+SORecogMan, B: A+SO Chronometer )


[note]
-It is difficult for me to point out all sessions, original one <-> changing one, without mistake....
If you wanna know specifically, please compare files with this software. http://winmerge.org/

cheers,

[panthercules]

Wow - I love the slideout recog manual idea. Wasn't sure about some of the other stuff, and my menu.ini file is already heavily tweaked, so i tried to adapt this manually to just get the slideout recog manual, by just cutting out the [G25 Ixx] section in its entirety and replacing it with the one in your new .ini file.

It almost worked - I got the manual to slide out, but I need to move it up to the top left of the screen rather than where it is at the bottom left - can you tell me which of the sections in the revised .ini file needs to be tweaked (and how) to move the manual up along the left side of the screen without messing up the other things you did with it to make it slide, etc.? Also, I'd like to make it slide a bit faster - can you tell us which section governs the slide speed for the manual?

Thanks for this great work

[ottos]

@panthercules, thanks for comment,

-Firstly,adjust for slide speed is quite simple,
The head of menu.ini
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[Settings]
SlidingSpeed=1000;pixels per second (default SlidingSpeed=200)
------------
As you can know, biggar figure means more faster sliding speed.

-Secondly,making slide object is also simple,
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[G25 I2]
Name=Rec manual
Type=1026;Menu group
ItemID=0x25010000
ParentID=0x25000000
Pos=0,-412,812,276
;Zone= 0 356 812 276 0 1 0x25000000 0 -0.536458 0x25010000 0 0 0 0
Zone= 0 356 690 235 0 1 0x25000000 0 -0.5 0x25010000 0 0 0 -120
Color=0xFFFFFFFF
HorizSlide=-680
-----------------
HorizSlide or VertSlide means this.

-Finally, adjust for the position of each object...
Its difficult for me to explain well, because i dont have enough skill (English skill too..)
Could you read zAmboni san's Tutorial? http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=111832

as simple advice, probably most easy method for this is
Zone= 0 356 690 235 0 1 0x25000000 0 -0.5 0x25010000 0 0 X Y
only change X and Y (as you may know, X means Horizontal pixel, Y means vertical pixel)
added say you can ignore the Pos=0,-412,812,276 discription.

Regards,

[panthercules]

Thanks for the reply - I did try reading that tutorial before, and it was basically "whoa - this is waaaay over my head complicated!"

However, I think you confirmed my fears from looking at this myself after I posted my questions last night. When you say:

"Finally, adjust for the position of each object... "

do I interpret that correctly that there's not any one place I could make this change but I'd basically have to make the same change to every element or section of the [G25 Ixx] part of the .ini file (i.e., [G25 I1] to [G25 I47]) so all aspects of the manual would move up together on the screen? I guess since the horizontal pixel location could stay the same, I'd only have to change the "y" number in the "zone" line in all those sections by the same amount (for example, increase each Y number by 400 or some such number) to move it upwards on the screen?

That doesn't sound too bad - quess I'll give it a shot and see what happens (that's what backups are for, right?)

Thanks for the tips

[edit] AWESOME - it turned out to way simpler than all that - I just changed the one "Y" number in the "Zone" line in the very first section ([G25 I1]), and it worked like a charm - I tried changing the "0" to "400" and the manual is right up near where I want it - I will probably make it 450 or 500 to get it a little higher, but that one change was all it took. Woohoo! Thanks for the clue that made it so easy

[panthercules]

Well, almost perfect - I moved it to "500", and that put it right where I wanted it. it slides out great and everything seems to work (opening book, turning pages, changing ship angles, etc.)

HOWEVER, after I open a book and look at the ships, when the book slides back to the left edge the black scale bar at the bottom of the pages stays slid out - it doesn't slide back over to the left like the rest of the book does. I'm thinking it might have been that way all along, but it used to be in the dark part at the bottom so it wasn't as noticeable as it is now when it's protruding into the sky part of the scope view.

I'll take a look at the file and see if I can figure out why this is happening, but I thought you might want to check it out too in case it's a problem with the original mod/tweak settings.

Even with that line, this is still very cool (it goes away if I hit "N" again to close the book), and is a small price to pay for being able to leave the book open to the page you want, but I would like to get the line to slide back with the rest of the manual if possible.

Great work

[edit] The way the scale looks, it's like it never actually slides all the way out to the right, either - with the book fully open/slid out, the right-most edge of the scale only reaches out about 2/3rds of the way under the ship picture, and the left end of the scale spills over across the "spine" of the manual and off the left edge of the screen. Since I didn't mess with that section of the .ini file, I suspect that the scale part may be messed up in the original mod tweak. I found what looked like the section for the scale, but I could not figure out what might be wrong with it.