Thanks for your reply,
yes I was on gooey 2024.6 / Gamemaker 2024.6.1, just downloaded gooey for the first time the other day. I was trying out some other libraries before and gooey was the first one that (almost) worked without bugs on the first try and was the only one I could understand good enough to fix things myself. So thanks for making gooey :)
I tried gooey 2024.7 and now it works out of the box, thanks.
When I built my first UI a ran into some minor problems:
I made a panel, added a grid and added buttons +extra sprites on the left and UIText on the right column. When I try to make the text left-aligned it looks like this:
It places the text on the left side on the cell, but the text itself is centered.
So I wanted to change the _text_format of the UIText to "[fa_left][fa_middle]", but UIText has no _text_format property and no setTextFormat method. As a workaround I can set it back to UI_RELATIVE_TO.MIDDLE_CENTER, or is there another possibility/approach I don't see?
So my current wishes for gooeys future are:
- "setTextFormat" method for every element that has text
- extra "secondary" sprite for buttons (for icons instead of text on buttons independend of the button sprite itself)
- "setScaleMouseover", "setScaleClick"... for buttons
[EDIT] - window_set_cursor does not work reliable, so for now an option to disable it would be nice found the configurations
- The YT video is great but a example project would be great for starting out
Of course I can try to implement it myself, but that would only make sense if I would use your repo and I am not very experienced with GIT...
Hi and thanks!
Not entirely sure of what are you trying to do with UIText. However, I *think* you are trying to create a button that has an icon and text on it, right?
If so, you can easily do this with the UIButton and leveraging Scribble's inline images:
on mouseover:
However, in case you *do* want to use UIText for other uses (for example, for creating a text label to display the price of the upgrade, on the right grid cells) you can use it:
Indeed, the UIText does *not* currently have a .setTextFormat() method (I will consider adding it or at least mentioning it in the docu, however the text string itself can be formatted with any Scribble tag. For example:
Note also that this formatting is independent of the position of the UIText within the grid cell, which you can control using the relative_to argument when creating the UIText element.
Here's a sample project with all the code.
Hope it helps, let me know,
Thank you very much, this helped me a lot.
Yes you are right, I wanted Button with a sprite and text, I didn't think about scribbles inline sprites, that was exactly the hint I needed. Now it looks like I wanted it:
Now I can continiue prototyping before I begin to tackle the next UI challenges like scrolling and Tooltips.
I already took a look at your scrolling example you posted in the comments, I am excited to see if I can make a working scrollbar, too.
