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BTW...
Why do we have to launch the GUI of CMake? I didn't even write in any info on it's main screen; went off and compiled fully without a hitch. :/

It's a compiled version of the Mac (3.5.0) engine; not really a wrapper. Well, in the sense it wraps a system-agnostic version of the game (say the windows exe file) as a Mac .app?...

emabolo, TheVolumeRemote should generate a new wrapper for 3.5.1, or produce a tutorial on how to compile the 3.5.1 code into a Mac engine so I no longer have to bother him by proxy, HINT HINT HINT ;P

Snarky, okay no worries. I'll keep in touch, atm just hacking-away all last known errors before release.

I have a problem that when I set a bubble with SayAtBubble(), it's x/y coords are totally static. If the speech bubble is placed directly above the head of a character, and it turns out it's 5 lines long, it will continue to go down the screen and obscure the character's head.

How would I alter things? eg:

Code: ags

SayAtBubble(talk_x, talk_y-(bubbleSprite.GetNumberOfLines*8), "&777 line");   //will push the speech bubble up by number of lines used in speechbubble * 8 pixels for each

Basically, I am wondering how I would alter SayAtBubble so that the bubble's tail, *NOT* the upper-left corner, is used to position it; though obviously this is very difficult, I just want to know where I would get the variable controlling number of text lines so I can do it sort-of automatically.

Thank you

Does Remote or anyone know how to change the icons from standard AGS by doing something *other* than re-compiling the MacOS engine from scratch?

I renamed it LoCI.app, works fine.

TheVolumeRemote, could you produce a version of the wrapper for AGS 3.5.0.31 / 3.5.0-p9?

(my game is p9, currently seems to work with p7, but testing might produce a crash)

....Aaaand I'm a moron. It was replacing the GUI not attaching to it. I created a new one with ZOrder=999, and it worked

Now - is there a way to get rid of the tail?

Okay, ignore that, made no sense.

I've made some progress...

Code: ags

void SayAtBubble(this Character*, int x, int y, String message, GUI* bubbleGui)
{
  if(message == null) return;
  if(!game.bgspeech_stay_on_display)
    _stopAllBackgroundBubbles();
  if((Speech.VoiceMode == eSpeechVoiceOnly && hasVoiceClip(message)) || message == "...") {
    this.SB_sayImpl(message);
  } else {
    DynamicSprite* bubbleSprite = this.renderBubble32(message, true);

.....
		} else {		
			x = this.x - GetViewportX() - bubbleSprite.Width/2;					//BLR
		}
		
		x = _clampInt(x, 0, System.ViewportWidth - bubbleSprite.Width);   // /2);
		
    if (DescribeItemInv) {
      cJulius.realSayAtBubble(1, 1, message, gInventory, null);
    } else {
      this.realSayAtBubble(x, y, message, bubbleGui, null);
    }
  }
}

DescribeItemInv is a switch I set up to say 'the inventory is showing'. Don't ask me why, I'll clean it up later.

Anyway - it now:
1. Instantly removes the gInventory GUI
2. Does the speech bubble
3. Prevents you from ever bringing the gInventory GUI up again

:/


ps. I have BTN_SB as a blank element in the gInventory GUI as a button. Should I leave it in?

fir creating a bubble - you mean initialised with SpeechBubble *gInvBubble = SpeechBubble.Create(....  or..?

To myself, it's good to have a plan, but I don't think I could implement this in 6months. Basically all I'll trying to do is display a speech bubble at x=20, y=30, and have it appear above the Inventory GUI (which has a solid background) for all speech connected to i[something]_look() functions.

But anyway - when do you think this feature will be coming out re ZOrder? Is in the next version or 5 months of bug-fixing away? Just trying to get an idea.

How can I display a Speechbubble so that it is on top of all GUIs? ie. Make it's ZOrder=1000 -- despite the fact it has no ZOrder and no obvious way of doing this... :/

Solved it. Had the problem in the code, for SayAtBubble().

Had
x = _clampInt(x, 0, System.ViewportWidth - bubbleSprite.Width/2);
instead of
x = _clampInt(x, 0, System.ViewportWidth - bubbleSprite.Width);

Not that it matters, but all good now

I've just found out this only happens to Julius (main character), as he has a separate talking function (to accout for Z-axis alteration). I "reverse engineered" (ie hacked together unknowingly) the speech bubble function, which looks like this:

Code: ags

function cJulius_spk(String msg)
{
  // Calculate text dimensions
  int textWidth = -1;

  int w = System.ViewportWidth * 2/3;
  if(cJulius.x - GetViewportX() <= System.ViewportWidth/4 || cJulius.x - GetViewportX() >= System.ViewportWidth * 3/4) {
    w -= System.ViewportWidth/5;
  }
  textWidth=w;

  if(textWidth < (System.ViewportWidth - 40)) {
    textWidth=textWidth;
  } else {
    textWidth=System.ViewportWidth - 40;
  }
  
  int textHeight = GetTextHeight(msg, 1, textWidth);
  
  int cut = textWidth;
  int height = textHeight;
  while(cut>1) {
    cut = (cut+1) >> 1; // Subtract half as much as we tried last time, rounding up
    height = GetTextHeight(msg, 1, textWidth - cut);
    if(height == textHeight) {
      textWidth -= cut;
    }
  }
  height = GetTextHeight(msg, 1, textWidth-1);
  if(height == textHeight) {
    textWidth=textWidth-1;
  } else {
    textWidth=textWidth;
  }

  int totalWidth = textWidth + 20 + 20;
  int bubbleHeight = textHeight + 10 + 10;
  int totalHeight;
  totalHeight = bubbleHeight + 9;

  SpeechBubbleHeight_blr=totalHeight;

  int headHeight=355;     //constant
  int spaceAboveHead=8;  //constant

  float h=IntToFloat( SpeechBubbleHeight_blr ); //constant
  float f=( (IntToFloat(headHeight+spaceAboveHead)/100.0)*IntToFloat(cJulius.Scaling) ) + h;
 
  cJulius.SayAtBubble(cJulius.x, cJulius.y - FloatToInt(f), msg);
}

Would you be able to help me insert the viewport code? I can work it out but it'll take a long time.

Snarky, I have two things and wondering if they’re possible:
1. Turn off speechbubble easily (so they never display) by setting one option.
2. Not allow a speech bubble to be written off the right edge of the screen (at the moment it must start at x=0, but if a character is standing too far to the right, they’re speech bubble may be cut off). Is there a way to make their right edge or both edges impossible to be drawn off screen?

Solved.

I don't know... :/
I'll test it.

there's also this:
https://bluekeystudios.com/filez/speechbubble.zip