Button Highlight Effect

[Droof]

Is there a trigger or pack to highlight a BTN or to show an arrow pointing to a BTN?

LTW has a shimmer around a button, kinda what I'm looking for (best image I could find)

Spoiler: IMG

 

[Uncle]

The Big UI-Frame Tutorial

www.hiveworkshop.com

Check under the section: TextButton with AutoCast Model Without FDF

There may be other sections in there that have exactly what you want.

This tool may help as well: Warcraft 3 Reforged UI Designer (RUID)

 

[Droof]

I tried The Big UI-Frame Tutorial but I just get compile error after compile error, don't know enough to implement it. Will try the app. Thanks!

 

[Uncle]

I think all of the examples are in Lua, so you'd need to convert them to Jass. They're very similar though, in most cases you just need to add a word like "call" or "set" which the compiler will probably tell you about.

For example the AutoCast code in that tutorial looks like this:

function Test()
    -- create the button and place it onto the center of the screen
    local button = BlzCreateFrame("ScriptDialogButton", BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_GAME_UI, 0), 0, 0)
    BlzFrameSetAbsPoint(button, FRAMEPOINT_CENTER, 0.4, 0.3)
    BlzFrameSetSize(button, 0.039, 0.039)

    -- create a Sprite that copies the button's positions
    local model =  BlzCreateFrameByType("SPRITE", "SpriteName", button, "", 0)
    BlzFrameSetAllPoints(model, button)
    -- apply the model
    BlzFrameSetModel(model, "UI\\Feedback\\Autocast\\UI-ModalButtonOn.mdl", 0)
    -- Models don't care about Frame Size, to resize them one needs to scale them. The default CommandButton has a Size of 0.039.
    BlzFrameSetScale(model, BlzFrameGetWidth(button)/0.039)
end

And here it is converted to Jass:

function Test takes nothing returns nothing
    // create the button and place it onto the center of the screen
    local framehandle button = BlzCreateFrame("ScriptDialogButton", BlzGetOriginFrame(ORIGIN_FRAME_GAME_UI, 0), 0, 0)
    // create a Sprite frame
    local framehandle model =  BlzCreateFrameByType("SPRITE", "SpriteName", button, "", 0)

    // position and size the button frame
    call BlzFrameSetAbsPoint(button, FRAMEPOINT_CENTER, 0.4, 0.3)
    call BlzFrameSetSize(button, 0.039, 0.039)

    // Note: I had to create the Sprite frame a few lines up because you can only declare local variables at the start of a Jass function

    // this makes the model copy the position of the button
    call BlzFrameSetAllPoints(model, button)
    // apply the model
    call BlzFrameSetModel(model, "UI\\Feedback\\Autocast\\UI-ModalButtonOn.mdl", 0)
    // Models don't care about Frame Size, to resize them one needs to scale them. The default CommandButton has a Size of 0.039.
    call BlzFrameSetScale(model, BlzFrameGetWidth(button)/0.039)
endfunction

You may need to rename the local variables, the name button could be used for other things, I'm not sure.

 

[Droof]

Thanks, less errors now

Never seen this, "symbol button" ?

Spoiler: IMG

 

[Uncle]

It wants you to rename the variable button as that name is already used for something else. So replace all instances of "button" with let's say "btn".

A type is an Integer, Boolean, Real, String, Player, Item, Unit, etc... so I guess Button is a type as well (maybe a Dialog button, that'd make sense).

 

[Droof]

It worked with no errors but there is no visible frame/btn. Is that something I'd have to add?

 

[Uncle]

Did you call the function?

• Custom script: call Test()

This will run the code inside the Test function.

 

[Droof]

Worked ty! +rep

 

[Droof]

How can I hide the button or add an icon to this area?

• call BlzFrameSetTexture(model, "UI\\Widgets\\EscMenu\\Human\\blank-background.blp", 0, false)

Didn't work.

 

[Uncle]

Those are local variables in the code, you can't reference them outside of their function.

Also, the model is the autocast sprite, the button is what it's attached to. You could probably tweak the code to not even create the button in the first place and just get the model (sprite). I'm not sure though as I've never created a sprite before. The tutorial probably has the answer to this.

Anyway, you can try to add this to the code after creating the button (btn) to hide it but that might hide the model along with it since they're paired:

call BlzFrameSetVisible(btn, false)

There's tutorials on creating Icons that you can look into as well. They're pretty straightforward, just remember to convert the code from Lua to Jass. You can use my conversion example above as a guide.