Tiny little Multiboards... wtf?

04-11-2007, 04:50 AM

Ok. I made a bunch of multiboards, yeah yeah woohoo. Each one has 2 columns and 5-6 rows. The problem is, these multiboards show up miniscule, showing only the first word or few letters of each row! Do I need to add Icon and Textless columns to extend the multiboard, or did I miss a step somewhere?

Here's an example of one of my MB's.

JASS:

function Demon_MB_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
    set udg_Multiboards[4] = CreateMultiboardBJ( 2, 5, "Hints for Demon" )
    call MultiboardSetTitleTextColor( udg_Multiboards[4], 255, 0, 0, 0 )
    call MultiboardSetItemIconBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 0, 0, "ReplaceableTextures\\CommandButtons\\BTNRegeneration.blp" )
    call MultiboardSetItemValueBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 1, 1, "DEMON" )
    call MultiboardSetItemValueBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 1, "The Demon wolf attacks strong but slow, and his spells deal damage in intervals." )
    call MultiboardSetItemValueBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 2, "The text command for Demons is -Demon" )
    call MultiboardSetItemValueBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 3, "The Demon's Chaos Barrier drains mana with each attack taken. Be careful!" )
    call MultiboardSetItemValueBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 4, "You need to eat to keep your food (mana) above 0. Simply be near a corpse and use 'eat'." )
    call MultiboardSetItemValueBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 5, "The Demon wolf can actually manage to fend for himself not too badly." )
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Demon_MB takes nothing returns nothing
  local trigger t = CreateTrigger()
    call TriggerRegisterTimerEventSingle( t, 0.03 )
    call TriggerAddAction( t, function Demon_MB_Actions )
set t = null
endfunction

For the second column, the only words that showed up were the The's and the You. any idea how to fix that?

04-11-2007, 04:52 AM

PurgeandFire111

Your supposed to set the width percentage... Hold on, give me min, I'll post an example.

(I just need to get WE open)
Here is an example of what to do:

JASS:

    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( GetLastCreatedMultiboard(), <Column>, <Row>, <Percentage> )

So if you wanted it to take up persay 8.00% of the screen in column 1 row 7, it would be:

JASS:

    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( GetLastCreatedMultiboard(), 1, 7, 8 )

I hope this helps!

04-11-2007, 04:54 AM	#3
darkwulfv	EDIT: Cool, thanks. What would you recommend for the amount of width for what I've got? (Just take the longest, they'll all fit inside that)

04-11-2007, 05:23 AM

PurgeandFire111

Your welcome. If your texts will be that long, I suggest having it like this:

JASS:

    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 0, 0, 3 )
//That will be for the icon area//
    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 1, 1, 5)
//That will be for the "DEMON" text//
    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 1, 19)
//That will be for the "The Demon attacks..." text//
    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 2, 12)
//That will be for the "The text command for Demons..." text//
    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 3, 16)
//That will be for the "Chaos Barrier..." text//
    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 4, 23)
//That will be for the "Eat... keep... food (mana)" text//
    call MultiboardSetItemWidthBJ( udg_Multiboards[4], 2, 5, 18)
//That will be for the last one//

Something like that, I hope it works. Personally, I think some of the texts are kind of long, but it is ok. A real smart thing would be to instead create an extra row and put the extra text there so that it seems like you "entered" the text down to save space.

I hope this helps!