Advice(s) on menu_1024x768.ini please

[ichso]

Thanks for the hints.

I'm currently installing a second SH3 version, which I'm going to use without GWX and Patches to test my results. It just loads way faster than with GWX on top

I think I begin to understand how everything works in this file.

If the mod wants to create the switchable 25m-260m depth gauges, it first creates a group to put all needed graphics and controls together. An ItemID and ParentID allow you to reference specific items (menus, dials, ...).
So, for the depth gauge group, there is an item of type menu group, that works as the top level item for the whole depth gauge group.

G3F I347
Name=FLB Sale`s 6 Anzeigen, Tiefenmesser
Type=1026;Menu group
ItemID=0x3F0C0000
ParentID=0x3F000000
Pos=678,344,344,344
Color=0xFFFFFFFF
VertSlide=-343

So this is also the only item of the whole group that needs to get the absolut position on the screen and the slideout setting.
The other items (that refer to this one as their parent item) have position values only relative to this one's.

The following items (which still belong to this group) then load the needed graphics, like the dial graphic or backgrounds and pointers.

My problem now is, that I copied the whole section of the MyFavDial mod, which has something to do with the depth gauges, at the end of my G3F section in menu_1024_768.ini.
I renamed the numbers for the new items, so that they follow the numbering of the G3F section. (It ended at G3F I346 and I named them G3F I347, G3F I348,...).

But the dial doesn't get displayed correctly.
The only thing that gets displayed is a little digital number which gives my current depth and which slides in and out.
If I click somewhere near it I give a speed command, although I don't see the dial.
Don't know what is wrong or missing, just inserted the section as the mod does.
And I'm using stock SH3 now, so there is no other mod disturbing this.

Originally Posted by bert8for3

Anyway, all to say that if you need a hand I'd be happy to help. I have no modding experience or ability (just some very limited idea about how the file structure works), but could eg test or whatever. Even if you just wanted to merge in 6Dials, I could maybe learn enough to figure out how to merge MFD.

Help is appreciated
As I see, we seem to have the same goals on this. I never did anything with this file before, too.

The thing I want to do, is to just integrate the depth gauges, speed dial and compass like it was with the original MFD.
As I use OLC GUI, I wanted to adjust the sliding settings, so that for example the speed dial slides further upwards than it did in the original MFD. Because the OLC GUI has this bar at the bottom which would otherwise be in the way of the sliding dial.



EDIT: Intelligent as I am, I forgot to include the needed graphics. No wonder that none got displayed if there weren't any...
I just forgot that in stock SH3, there where no such big dial graphics but with GWX there where.
Depth gauges now working as intended in original MFD.