VA Panel - Interesting behavior

[Old Dog]

Jeff,

I modified the VA Panel to use DrawTextWithOutline. As soon as I saved the panel's xml file, the outlined text started working on screen.

However, when I exit GBPVR.exe then restart it, VA Panel will not display anything! If I switch back to DrawText, it works again.

If possible, I would like to use DrawTextWithOutline on all panels.

Thanks,
David

[Fatman_do]

Jeff,

I modified the VA Panel to use DrawTextWithOutline. As soon as I saved the panel's xml file, the outlined text started working on screen.

However, when I exit GBPVR.exe then restart it, VA Panel will not display anything! If I switch back to DrawText, it works again.

If possible, I would like to use DrawTextWithOutline on all panels.

Thanks,
David

If I remember (my remembererererer is not very good) I tried the same thing without sucess. (I wanted to make sure text was always visible with light backgrounds.)

It is not a very elegent way to do it, but now I use in some areas a "fake" draw text with outline by offsetting the same string by 1 pixel.

Code:

    <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="10,7" size="160,40" textStyle="ButtonTextSelectedShadow" align="Left" />
      <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="10,5" size="160,40" textStyle="ButtonTextSelectedShadow" align="Left" />
          <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="8,5" size="160,40" textStyle="ButtonTextSelectedShadow" align="Left" />
      <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="8,7" size="160,40" textStyle="ButtonTextSelectedShadow" align="Left" />
          <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="9,6" size="160,40" textStyle="ButtonTextSelected" align="Left" />

It seems there was another panel or so that did not support draw text with outline.

[Jeff]

I just use standard gbpvr CompositeImages so I don't know why the DrawTextWithOutline style would work some times and not others. GBPVR does the processing of all the lines for me.

Jeff

[Old Dog]

I've double checked, it is reproducible.

Now I am working around the problem by using both methods, first DrawText for each message, followed by DrawTextWithOutline for each message. The result on screen is VAPanel with outlined text.

-David