Popup box with buttons?

[psycik]

sub as part of the general API, is there a popup box with buttons?

[sub]

The popup base class is pretty simple and just provides the background and the animations for showing/hiding it. Any buttons and controls displayed on that popup need to be managed by the plugin.

[psycik]

ok, and to stretch the theme....is there a way for a plugin to override everything else and display itself over video, screen saver etc??

[sub]

No, not really.

[psycik]

How hard would it be for an API method to do this?? I realise it might have some fairly large changes.

But this could be used for messaging/VOIP, system messages etc

Maybe not a popup window over video, but a method of a plugin taking focus back to itself...I'm just trying to think of methds to do it.

[sub]

It is quite a bit of work.

I went through this in the past, adding it to GBPVR.exe, only to find no plugins really made use of it. Ok, a couple did, like revens MSN client, but these were never popular. Whilst the idea was cool, there just didnt seem to be the demand for this type of feature. I'd probably be reluctant to invest time on it again given all the other things I could spend my time on.

[psycik]

I thought that might be the answer.

So would a plugin if it doesn't have focus be able to force a return to the main menu??
Then maybe the plugin could activate itself??

I would imagine this would be less work?? and while not being the prettiest would give the functionality.

I mean of course you could right something external to gbpvr, but it would be nicer if self contained within the one app.

[sub]

You can try calling IPluginHelper.SetActiveTask() to switch to a plugin

[psycik]

The popup base class is pretty simple and just provides the background and the animations for showing/hiding it. Any buttons and controls displayed on that popup need to be managed by the plugin.

I'm back on this. Have got a popupBase object (taking from the weather Sample) and am trying to add a button to it.

Code:

GBPVRX2.UiSupport.UiButton uiButton = new UiButton(skinHelper2, "Icon View", rect);
       uiButton.Activate();
                
       System.Collections.ArrayList al = new System.Collections.ArrayList();
       al.Add(uiButton);
       this.uiList.setItemList(al);

But I can't get that one button to show up. uiList is a UISimpleList.
And rect is the GetPlacementRect i grabbed for the UISimpleList - it should look like crap at the moment, but I just want the button at the moment.

[whurlston]

Code:

protected override ArrayList getPostBackgroundRenderList()
        {
            ArrayList renderList = new ArrayList();
            renderList.AddRange(uiButton.GetRenderList());
            return renderList;
        }

Or you can use the uiList.GetRenderList()