manicevangelist

Hi,

I'm working on a skin, but I just can't figure out how to attach a background to the continue button.

This is the code:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> &lt;widget class="action_button" text="Continue" appearance="menu/bar" auto_size="horizontal" style="embossed" size="10"&gt;&lt;record id="click_event" event_id="CONT" event_target="scrn"/&gt;&lt;attachment class="test_global_attachment" get_property="cont" set_property="disa"&gt;&lt;list id="value"&gt;&lt;integer value="-8"/&gt;&lt;integer value="-5"/&gt;&lt;/list&gt;&lt;/attachment&gt;&lt;!-- match play text --&gt;&lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="cttx" set_property="text"/&gt;&lt;/widget&gt; &lt;widget class="action_button" id="back" appearance="button/custom/back/button" auto_size="all"&gt; &lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="disp" set_property="disa"/&gt;&lt;attachment class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="top" inset="39"/&gt; &lt;record id="click_event" event_id="GOTO" event_target="scrn" scin="-3"/&gt; &lt;/widget&gt; &lt;widget class="action_button" id="forw" appearance="button/custom/next/button" auto_size="all"&gt; &lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="disn" set_property="disa"/&gt;&lt;attachment class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="top" inset="39"/&gt; &lt;record id="click_event" event_id="GOTO" event_target="scrn" scin="-2"/&gt; &lt;/widget&gt;</pre>

Can anyone help me here?

Norfolk_boy

To work with that you should have:

Your main 'graphics' folder &gt; a 'menu' folder &gt; a set of graphics files called 'bar...'

you can either have them fixed size meaning you'd have:

bar.png, bar_over.png, bar_clicked.png, bar_disabled.png and maybe showing.png

or you could have it as variable size meaning you have a left, right and middle graphic for each or the above 5 types:

eg bar_clicked_left.png, bar_clicked_middle.png, bar_clicked_right.png

That should work fine and dandy. However, whilst writing this some memories come back and it could also be the widget type. I seem to remember having some kind of problem like this. You might have to change it to 'text_button' from 'action_button'. Or it might have been the other way round, in which case you've done it already so it should work. However it might not need chaning at all. I'd make certain of your file placements before changing it.

manicevangelist

Neither action_button og text_button seems to work.

This is the widget for the "Manager"-menu and I want my continue button in the same style.

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> &lt;widget class="header_popup" text="Manager" appearance="menu/bar" size="8" colour="grey3"&gt; &lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="mgro" set_property="itms" skip_if_null="false"/&gt; &lt;/widget&gt;</pre>

If I change the text and adds this line:

&lt;record id="click_event" event_id="CONT" event_target="scrn"/&gt;

it works, but the "Manager"-fold down menu still unfolds - how can I avoid this?

retired_vpoorni

change the attachment class line so it reads the same as the default continue button.

So it'll look something like this:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">&lt;widget class="header_popup" text="Continue" appearance="menu/bar" size="8" colour="grey3"&gt;&lt;record id="click_event" event_id="CONT" event_target="scrn"/&gt;&lt;attachment class="test_global_attachment" get_property="cont" set_property="disa"&gt;&lt;list id="value"&gt;&lt;/list&gt;&lt;/attachment&gt;&lt;!-- match play text --&gt;&lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="cttx" set_property="text"/&gt;&lt;/widget&gt;</pre>

manicevangelist

Yeah I just tried that too Michael.

The dropdown menu still shows just without any content. I think the problem is the header_popup, which i believe has the dropdown function - just don't know how to get rid of it.

manicevangelist

Like this:

retired_vpoorni

Try using the code that displays the ball in the footer as the continue button.

manicevangelist

No that won't work. It's just a button without text, and I've tried the action_button. Doesn't work.