TaskDescription with HorizontalMainMenu

Heyt · 2005-12-11, 05:47 PM

I've just tried the new Horizontal MainMenu (v95.16) and have to say a real nice to have. But i ran into a problem placing the TaskDescription. For setting up the buttons i switched off TaskDescription but now when i want to reactivate it, it will not show up. It seems it is not possible to have TaskDescription and a horizontal menu. By the way taskdescription works fine with the same skinfile and vertical menus.

Please let me know if someone else had the same Problem or if i'm doning something wrong.

Heyt · 2005-12-12, 06:06 PM

OK here's a screen of the MainMenu and as you can see there is no task description visible.

But if you look in the code of the skin.xml TaskDescription is activated.

Code:
settings>

    <!-- text style -->

    <TextStyles>

        <TextStyle name="ButtonText" color="White" typeFace="Arial Black" size="16" style="bold"/>

        <TextStyle name="ButtonTextNormal" color="White" typeFace="Arial" size="12" style="bold"/>

        <TextStyle name="TaskDescription" color="LightGray" typeFace="Arial" size="13" style="bold"/>

    </TextStyles>

    <!-- Composite Images -->

    <CompositeImages>

        <CompositeImage name="Background" size="1024,576">

            <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="1024,576" borderWidth="0" borderColor="White" fillColor="DarkRed"/>

        </CompositeImage>

        <CompositeImage name="SelectedButtonImage" size="200,180">

            <DrawImage filename="..\pics\rahmen.png" loc="22,0" size="155,150"/>

            <DrawImage filename="@taskImage" loc="36,39" size="97,97"/>

            <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="0,150" size="200,30" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center"/>

        </CompositeImage>

        <CompositeImage name="NormalButtonImage" size="117,180">

            <DrawImage filename="..\pics\rahmen.png" loc="20,75" size="77,75"/>

            <DrawImage filename="@taskImage" loc="28,95" size="48,48"/>

            <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="0,158" size="117,20" textStyle="ButtonTextNormal" align="Center"/>

        </CompositeImage>

    </CompositeImages>

    <!-- special elements -->

    <SpecialElements>

        <SpecialElement name="Buttons" loc="61,306" spacing="0" alwayCentered="false" maxVisibleButtons="7" allowTopBottomWrap="false" showNumbers="false"/>

        <!--<SpecialElement name="TaskDescription" visible="true" loc="61,496" size="902,20" align="Left"/>    -->

        <SpecialElement name="TaskDescription" visible="true" loc="125,378" size="475,50" align="Center"/>

        <SpecialElement name="TaskImage" visible="false" animate="false" loc="460,100" size="300,300"/>

        <SpecialElement name="ForegroundTransparency" percent="80"/>

        <SpecialElement name="MenuType" type="GBPVR.HorizontalMenuTask"/>

        <!-- plugin panels -->

        <!--<SpecialElement name="Panel" panelName="Clock" visible="true" transparency="1" loc="663,60" size="300,40"/>-->

        <!--<SpecialElement name="Panel" panelName="NextRecording" visible="true" transparency="1" loc="61,60" size="480,40"/>-->

    </SpecialElements>

</settings>

***sub*** · 2005-12-12, 06:54 PM

I've just looked into this. I found I had implemented support for showing the task description when using a horizontal menu. I've fixed this for the next release.

Heyt · 2005-12-12, 06:56 PM

OK, thanks for the info sub