Help with custom mainmenu_briefing.gui

[datiswous]

I modified the standard mainmenu_briefing.gui file to add an extra button in the center that directs to another page:

 

Then If you click on button StartLocation, you get to another page, where I still have to add the starter locations and you have a Briefing button, to get back to the briefingtext:

 

Code for only this part (might still have some unneeded code) :

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	// Mission location
	
	windowDef Startlocation
	{
		//rect		60, 70, 530, 300 -- Old Values
		rect		90, 75, 458, 150
		bordercolor	1,1,1,1
		text		"Select a location to start the mission"
//		font		BRIEFING_TEXT_FONT
//		textscale	BRIEFING_TEXT_SCALE
		forecolor	0, 0, 0, 1
		visible		0
	}
	
	windowDef BriefingButton
	{
		rect 270, 445, 100, 100
//		textalign 1
		MM_BUTTON_HUGE
		forecolor	GLOW_WHITE_COLOR
		text		"Briefing"
		visible		0
		onAction
		{
		set "BriefingText::visible" "1";
		set "StartLocationButton::visible" "1";
		set "Startlocation::visible" "0";
		set "BriefingButton::visible" "0";
		}
	}
	
	windowDef StartLocationButton
	{
		rect 270, 445, 110, 100
//		textalign 1
		MM_BUTTON_HUGE
		forecolor	GLOW_WHITE_COLOR
		text		"StartLocation"
		visible		1
		onAction
		{
		set "BriefingText::visible" "0";
		set "StartLocationButton::visible" "0";
		set "Startlocation::visible" "1";
		set "BriefingButton::visible" "1";

		}
	}

 

 

Question:

How do I remove the up and down navigation-buttons that are still present on this page?

I already tried:

set "scrollDown::visible" "0";
set "scrollUp::visible" "0";

 

Edited April 6, 2023 by datiswous

[joebarnin]

mainmenu_briefing.gui has a windowDef called 'scrollDown'. It contains the following line:

        visible        ("gui::ScrollDownVisible" == 1)

ScrollDownVisible is set in C++ code, based on whether the briefing has more pages. Maybe you need to change this logic to be TRUE only if the briefing text is also visible. Something like:

 

       visible        ("gui::ScrollDownVisible" == 1 && "BriefingText::visible" == 1)

That way when your start location page is up, the arrow won't display.

[datiswous]

Thanks! This works.

[datiswous]

It now looks like this and totally works:

[datiswous]

I have now 2 possible screens in the briefing page:

1. The Briefing text
2. The Startlocation selection

If I'm in the Startlocation screen, but click on Back and then in the mainmenu start the mission again, I see the Startlocation screen again, instead of the briefing text. How can I set it so that it will go back to the briefing text every time I start the mission in the main menu?

[snatcher]

Difficult to guess with no access to the full code, me thinks.