GuiScrollCtrl question

prozac424242 · #1 12-02-2005, 09:40 PM

I have been researching the Gui commands on the wiki, and this is all I could find for the scroll box:

PHP Code:


			
    GuiScrollCtrl (GuiControl):

      childmargin - string

      constantthumbheight - boolean

      hscrollbar - string

      scrollpos - string

      tile - boolean

      vscrollbar - string

      wheelscrolllines - integer

      willfirstrespond - boolean

      scrolldelta(int, int)

      scrollto(int, int)

Based on that, and some othe gui commands, I was able to put this together:
The window contains the scollbox, and the scrollbox contains the text

PHP Code:


			
//#CLIENTSIDE



// by Prozac

// replaces the welcome server pm, so that everyone -with v4- will see it without

// having to click on the pm in the playerlist.



//with scroll window



function onCreated()

       {



      new GuiWindowCtrl("San_welcome")

          {

        //profile = "GuiMLWindowProfile";

        position = "0 0";

           width = 440;

           height= 400;

        extent = "440 400";

        canMove = true;

        canResize = canMaximize = canClose = true;

        tile = true;

        text = "Sanstrata Classic Welcome Message";

        visible = true;





   new GuiScrollCtrl(Scrollbox)

     {

      position = "5 24";

      extent = "430 380";

      childmargin ="5";

      constantthumbheight = true;

      hscrollbar = "red";

      scrollpos = "gray";

      tile = true;

      vscrollbar = "hi there";

      wheelscrolllines = 400;

      willfirstrespond = false;

      scrolldelta(100, 500);

      scrollto(300, 500);



        new GuiMLTextCtrl("Welcome_msg2") 

            {

          position = "0 0";

          extent = "431 473";

          horizSizing = "width";

          vertSizing = "height";

          text = "<body bgcolor=black><sbreak><shadow:1:1><shadowcolor:000000><br> I want the whole background to be black but this box will not expand downwards except for how much text you put into it<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>and I dont want to resort to br tags";

           }



      }

   }

 }

But the problem is that the text extent height cannot be forced to a pixel width, it just wraps around for however much text is there, and the amount of text may vary depending on what the welcome message is. I did not find any docuemtation on how to make the window or scroll areas a different color. I can only change the color of the text area, and the text area is not going to be a constant size.

If someone knows how to please help fix this so that the whole background of the scroll/window area is always black, that would be great. (oh look! I asked nicely!

)