I just learned to make dialogs with ArmA as well, and it's not exactly the easiest thing in the world. There are however fairly few changes in the syntax from OFP, so
Vektorbosen's Dialog Tutorial is still almost 100% viable. However, when it comes to the controls there are a few more options you need to determine, but I never bothered to find them out. I just stole the list of controls from (I think) one CSL's dialogs, and then added a few of my own by looking through the default ones for ArmA. Here's what I got so far:
/*******************/
/* Controls */
/*******************/
// Control types
#define CT_STATIC 0
#define CT_BUTTON 1
#define CT_EDIT 2
#define CT_SLIDER 3
#define CT_COMBO 4
#define CT_LISTBOX 5
#define CT_TOOLBOX 6
#define CT_CHECKBOXES 7
#define CT_PROGRESS 8
#define CT_HTML 9
#define CT_STATIC_SKEW 10
#define CT_ACTIVETEXT 11
#define CT_TREE 12
#define CT_STRUCTURED_TEXT 13
#define CT_CONTEXT_MENU 14
#define CT_CONTROLS_GROUP 15
#define CT_XKEYDESC 40
#define CT_XBUTTON 41
#define CT_XLISTBOX 42
#define CT_XSLIDER 43
#define CT_XCOMBO 44
#define CT_ANIMATED_TEXTURE 45
#define CT_OBJECT 80
#define CT_OBJECT_ZOOM 81
#define CT_OBJECT_CONTAINER 82
#define CT_OBJECT_CONT_ANIM 83
#define CT_LINEBREAK 98
#define CT_USER 99
#define CT_MAP 100
#define CT_MAP_MAIN 101
// Static styles
#define ST_POS 0x0F
#define ST_HPOS 0x03
#define ST_VPOS 0x0C
#define ST_LEFT 0x00
#define ST_RIGHT 0x01
#define ST_CENTER 0x02
#define ST_DOWN 0x04
#define ST_UP 0x08
#define ST_VCENTER 0x0c
#define ST_TYPE 0xF0
#define ST_SINGLE 0
#define ST_MULTI 16
#define ST_TITLE_BAR 32
#define ST_PICTURE 48
#define ST_FRAME 64
#define ST_BACKGROUND 80
#define ST_GROUP_BOX 96
#define ST_GROUP_BOX2 112
#define ST_HUD_BACKGROUND 128
#define ST_TILE_PICTURE 144
#define ST_WITH_RECT 160
#define ST_LINE 176
#define ST_SHADOW 0x100
#define ST_NO_RECT 0x200
#define ST_KEEP_ASPECT_RATIO 0x800
#define ST_TITLE ST_TITLE_BAR + ST_CENTER
// Slider styles
#define SL_DIR 0x400
#define SL_VERT 0
#define SL_HORZ 0x400
#define SL_TEXTURES 0x10
// Listbox styles
#define LB_TEXTURES 0x10
#define LB_MULTI 0x20
/*******************/
/* Basic classes */
/*******************/
class RscBackground
{
type = CT_STATIC;
IDC = -1;
style = 512;
x=0.0;
y=0.0;
w=1.0;
h=1.0;
text="";
ColorBackground[]={0.6,0.6,0.6,1};
ColorText[]={0.1,0.1,0.1,1};
font="BitStream";
SizeEx = 1;
};
class RscText
{
type = CT_STATIC;
IDC = -1;
style = ST_LEFT + ST_MULTI + ST_NO_RECT;
LineSpacing = 1.000000;
h = 0.040000;
ColorBackground[] = {1,1,1,0.2};
ColorText[] = {0.1,0.1,0.1,1};
// ColorBackground[] = CA_UI_grey;
// ColorText[] = Color_Black;
font = "BitStream";
SizeEx = 0.030000;
};
class RscPicture
{
type = CT_STATIC;
IDC = -1;
style = ST_PICTURE;
ColorBackground[] = {0,0,0,0};
ColorText[] = {1,1,1,1};
font = "BitStream";
SizeEx = 0;
};
class RscActiveText
{
type = CT_ACTIVETEXT;
style = ST_LEFT;
SizeEx = 0.05;
font = "BitStream";
color[]= {1,1,1,0.8};
colorActive[] = {1, 1, 1,1};
soundEnter[] = {"", 0.1, 1};
soundPush[] = {"", 0.1, 1};
soundClick[] = {"", 0.1, 1};
soundEscape[] = {"", 0.1, 1};
text = "";
};
class BIS_RscButton
{
access = ReadAndWrite;
type = VArmor;
style = 0;
x = 0;
y = 0;
w = 0.3;
h = 0.1;
text = "";
font = "TahomaB";
sizeEx = 0.04;
colorText[] = {0, 0, 0, 1};
colorDisabled[] = {0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 1};
colorBackground[] = {1,1.1,1};
colorBackgroundDisabled[] = {1, 1, 1, 1};
colorBackgroundActive[] = {1, 0.5, 0, 1};
offsetX = 0.004;
offsetY = 0.004;
offsetPressedX = 0.002;
offsetPressedY = 0.002;
colorFocused[] = {0, 0, 0, 1};
colorShadow[] = {0, 0, 0, 0};
colorBorder[] = {0, 0, 0, 1};
borderSize = 0.000;
soundEnter[] = {"", 0.1, 1};
soundPush[] = {"", 0.1, 1};
soundClick[] = {"", 0.1, 1};
soundEscape[] = {"", 0.1, 1};
};
class RscButton : BIS_RscButton
{
type = CT_BUTTON;
idc = -1;
style = ST_CENTER;
sizeEx = 0.02000;
borderSize = 0.000;
default = false;
};
class RscEdit {
access = 0;
type = 2;
style = 0;
h = 0.040000;
colorBackground[] = {0,0,0,0 };
colorText[] = {1,1,1,1 };
colorSelection[] = {1,1,1,0.250000 };
font = "TahomaB";
sizeEx = 0.040000;
autocomplete = "";
text = "";
size = 0.200000;
};
class RscCombo {
access = 0;
type = 4;
style = 0;
h = 0.050000;
wholeHeight = 0.250000;
colorSelect[] = {0.600000,0.600000,0.600000,1 };
colorText[] = {1,1,1,1 };
colorBackground[] = {0.200000,0.200000,0.200000,1 };
colorScrollbar[] = {1,1,1,1 };
font = "TahomaB";
sizeEx = 0.040000;
soundSelect[] = {"",0.100000,1 };
soundExpand[] = {"",0.100000,1 };
soundCollapse[] = {"",0.100000,1 };
};Basically what those do is pre-define a bunch of stuff for you that you'll use in your actual dialog. As for the dialog, I still use the excellent
Dialog Maker by razorwings18, which works quite well for ArmA as well: you won't have to copy the pre-defined controls that the dialog maker creates, and you should change all the fonts to something like "TahomaB", and it should pretty much work right off the bat.
Good luck! It ain't easy, and whenever you've done the slightest mistake you'll be thrown back to desktop, but you can get some really cool results out of it!
Wolfrug out.
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