MyResourceBar

Uncle · Jul 6, 2019

Thanks for making this. It helps a lot with figuring out how this UI stuff works.

Here's some suggestions if you plan on expanding upon this system.
Note that I'm not sure if these are even possible:

1) A Boolean to Hide the default Gold/Lumber/Food UI. "HideDefaultResourceUI = True/False"

2) A variable to define which part of the screen you want to anchor the UI. For example you could have a variable named "AnchorPosition" that you can set to either Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right, Bottom Center, or Top Center. The position of the UI you use in your map would be considered Top Right.

3) An option to replace the default Gold/Lumber/Food UI with the new UI.
So if you set the "AnchorPosition" to "Top Right" and set "ReplaceDefaultUI = True" then your new UI bars will start at the position of the default resource bar (replacing it) instead of below it.

4) Variables to define the position of the Hide Resources button. Corners, near the CommandCard, etc..

Tasyen · Jul 7, 2019

Uncle said:
1) A Boolean to Hide the default Gold/Lumber/Food UI. "HideDefaultResourceUI = True/False"

One could hide the default Icons and shown text, would also affect the tooltips which is good. But hiding the background is only doable with sideeffects, cause they are only accessable over their parent beeing ConsoleUI. ConsoleUI shows all background texture, icluding also the top left one and the ones at bottom and does alot of other stuff.
Easier might be not hiding it, instead moving it out of the screen which can sometimes somehow expend the time to exith the map/game.Other ugly sideffects: hero buttons and Upkeep warning message do move, if one moves the upper part of ConsolUI.

Uncle said:
2) A variable to define which part of the screen you want to anchor the UI. For example you could have a variable named "AnchorPosition" that you can set to either Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right, Bottom Center, or Top Center. The position of the UI you use in your map would be considered Top Right.

On default UI, Other positions would colide with other UI. Top Left would be an option, if one pushes down the heroes. With Bottom you mean the bottom of the screen or above the bottom UI? But I think it would not look that well, cause the current used texture is looking down. The border downwards is much stronger then upwards.

But it is possible.

Uncle said:
4) Variables to define the position of the Hide Resources button. Corners, near the CommandCard, etc..

One can choose at the start of the jass code which x/y pos the checkbox takes.

Thanks for your feedback.
I might consider your ideas.

MyPad · Jul 9, 2019

This is kind of impressive right out of the box, and in performance. Quite an outstanding way to utilize the new natives.

From replays, it appears that the checkbox can still be clicked, though it has no effect on the resource bar here.

Tasyen · Jul 9, 2019

Updated to V1.2: The behaviour to toggle visibility for custom resourcebars is now removed in replay mode (includes the checkbox). Also the bars now show the values of the current observed player, previously they showed the values of Player 1 in my test.

xorkatoss · Jul 11, 2019

damn this is a neat system! and you sure did an amazing job of making it GUI friendly thanks! :thumbs_up:

SpasMaster · Jul 11, 2019

Great system.

I love that you added the functionality to move the bars at different locations of the screen.

I've got a question tho:
There doesn't seem to be an option to change the amount of resources on a bar (Currently 4)?

Unless I am missing it, I think it would be a nice addition.

Tasyen · Jul 11, 2019

SpasMaster said:
There doesn't seem to be an option to change the amount of resources on a bar (Currently 4)?

The current apporach copies the default resourcebar in background texture with that the amount of possible fields per resourcebar. To support more resourcefields it would be requiered to scale down the size of each resource, increasing the bar size or have multiple resources in one field. If one has only 1 digit numbers one could probably have 3 resources in one resourcefield (at least it looks like it could work in a photoshop test), But that will look quite squeezed.

I ask myself if it would be better to change the type of MyResourceValue to string. Then one could display something like 3/4 or III.

SpasMaster · Jul 11, 2019

I am basically trying to use your system to display Custom Hero Stats as opposed to Resources.

I tried to go for a bottom center positioning:

However, the default tooltip for abilities (and other) collides with it there:

So, I was wondering if an alternative, 4x2 (Green) instead of 2x4 (Red) setup would work, which would result in something like this:

Tasyen said:
I ask myself if it would be better to change the type of MyResourceValue to string. Then one could display something like 3/4 or III.

I'd love to see that, since I was trying to have a stat be for example "0%" instead of simply "0"

Tasyen · Jul 11, 2019

Uploaded V1.2b. It changed the type of value to string and increased the max amount of chars in one field to 10 from 8.

This resource has hardcoded 4 field bars. I probably soon release a resource creating fields one by one instead of bars with 4. Creating them one by one, allows such 2x4 boxes. They also will be smaller.

You also colide at bottomLeft. The only 2 places you do not colide with something is FRAMEPOINT_TOPLEFT and FRAMEPOINT_CENTER.

FlameofChange · Jul 12, 2019

YESSSSS
TIME TO ADD SOME RESSOURCES

MyPad · Jul 12, 2019

Moved to Substandard due to a new iteration of the resource, which can be downloaded here: MyResourceField

That being said, this is still fully operational and can be reliably used without too much worry. (Deprecation)

xorkatoss · Jul 12, 2019

First of all, please don't tell me that after creating MyResourceField you will drop support for this

Second: I seem to have a bit of trouble moving the "hide box" to the place I want, when I set the X to 0.79 it looks like this:

Setting it to anything from 0.8 and above just makes it disappear, why I can't move it in the area I highlighted?

Anyway right now I'm using it like this:

It's working just fine! As I said before, you made a very useful and easy to modify system

Also another minor thing you might want to consider is adding an option to change the "HideResources" text.
Yes I know it's easy to find it and manually change it and only takes 5 minutes(the first time) but I'm just making a suggestion

Tasyen · Jul 12, 2019

xorkatoss said:
Second: I seem to have a bit of trouble moving the "hide box" to the place I want, when I set the X to 0.79 it looks like this:
Setting it to anything from 0.8 and above just makes it disappear, why I can't move it in the area I highlighted?

Thats cause this system uses a Gluecheckbox which is a frame, normal Frames can only be in the 4:3 screen. Only SimpleFrames can be moved into the 16:9 Area.

IcemanBo · Aug 5, 2019

Thanks for this! Super easy to use and exactly what I needed. : )

UmbraUnda · Apr 18, 2020

Great system, I'll be tinkering with it to try and incorporate it into my project.
Any advice on changing a custom harvest system that uses a Playerboard display to instead use this display?
My project uses Custom Resources 1.31 and Custom ResourcesCost
link to my project with DL link on last page, most recent post Medieval Realms

Chaosy · Apr 19, 2020

Underrated. I think this is better than the updated version in terms of UI.

Tasyen · May 15, 2023

Updated to V1.2d.
Improved Tooltip code, it now automatically takes as less space as needed.
Code only change.

MyResourceBar

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Source Code

MyResourceBar 1.2d (Map)

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