Dialogue box transparent? - please, help

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Dialogue box transparent? - please, help

Postby Bzyk » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:03 am

Hello, Friends,

can I make dialogue box transparent? For now dialogues appear in black rectangle which covers bottom part of the screen. Can I change it?

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Postby GM-Support » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:16 pm

Hi,

You cannot make it transparent, but you can change the color of the background.

For the general messages and the answers to the dialogues, you can use:

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DialogueCanvasObject.BackColor = RGB(X,Y,Z)


For the dialogue questions, you can use:

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MessageCanvasObject.BackColor = RGB(X,Y,Z)


In both cases you must replace X, Y, and Z with numbers comprised between 0 and 255. For example, you can get an orange color with RGB(255, 128, 0).

You can put the code in either the Advanced tab of the Frame Properties or the Advanced tab of the Project Properties.



Similarly, you can change the color of the font by using this code:

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MessageObject.ForeColor = RGB(X,Y,Z)


and you can use a different color for each of the questions of the dialogue, by using the following code:

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DialogueObject(NUMBER).ForeColor = RGB(X,Y,Z)


where NUMBER is the number of the question (the first question is number 1).


All those stuff can be easily guessed if you know either Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic for Applications (included in Excel, Powerpoint, etc. form the Macros menu), and by referring to the table that is available at the bottom of following page in the AM Help document:
http://www.adventuremaker.com/help/vbscript_objects.htm


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Postby Bzyk » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:25 am

OK, thank you, GM! Sounds good to me!
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