Press & Hold Button - Question

**Valheru** · 06-18-2008, 07:36 AM

I'm trying to have seperate day and night background images stored in my skin file, which can then be called from elsewhere in the skin. It's working to a point but I keep having an issue with the "Press & Hold" function.

On my BG browser I have a button called "Day", which has this code
B15,615,343,170,75,"LOADBG1",@SETBG1@

and in exectbl.ini the following commands are defined

"LOADBG1","SAVETOSKIN;BACKGROUND;$BKGND1$||RELOADS KIN"
"SETBG1","SETVARBYCODE;BKGND;LISTTEXT||SAVETOSKIN; BKGND1;$picspath$\$BKGND$||CNF_BKG1"
"CNF_BKG1","WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$confirm.txt; =/DEFINE CONFIRMTEXT New Background Set||WAIT;0.5||MENU;confirm.skin"

Here's the issue. With the code this way, the background is not saved correctly to my skin file, it misses the actual filename so all that gets stored is "BKGND1=C:\Car\Background\\" ... but if I remove the "||CNF_BKG1" or change the button command to be B15,615,343,170,75,"SETBG1",@LOADBG1@ it works perfectly. I would really like to have the "Load" function on press and "Set" function on the press & hold ...

Any idea's why this ain't working ... ???

**Sal R.** · 06-18-2008, 08:29 AM

i don't see why it shouldn't be working.

Try this:
B15,615,343,170,75,"LOADBG1",@SETBG1||CNF_BKG1@

ExecTBL.ini:

Code:

"LOADBG1","SAVETOSKIN;BACKGROUND;$BKGND1$||RELOADS KIN"
"SETBG1","SETVARBYCODE;BKGND;LISTTEXT||SAVETOSKIN; BKGND1;$picspath$\$BKGND$"
"CNF_BKG1","WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$confirm.txt; =/DEFINE CONFIRMTEXT New Background Set||WAIT;0.5||MENU;confirm.skin"


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**MGD** · 06-18-2008, 08:47 AM

Here is my command for that...

Code:

B01,599,506,101,82,"SETVARBYCODE;Background;$NightBackground$||SAVETOSKIN;Background;$NightBackground$||RELOADSKIN||NIGHTGAMMA",@SETVARBYCODE;Background;$DayBackground$||SAVETOSKIN;Background;$DayBackground$||RELOADSKIN||DAYGAMMA@

**Valheru** · 06-18-2008, 08:56 AM

@Sal-R : tried that ... still the same

@MGD : your code is exactly what I'm trying to do, but it's the step before that code that aint working, where I would set the $NightBackground$ variable etc if it was your skin ...

thanks for the suggestions tho ...

**MGD** · 06-18-2008, 09:13 AM

I forgot to mention, I have a background_Browser.skin where you can set the background for Day and Night and then recall the value. I attach the skin with the code so you can take a look. Just copy it to your skin folder and call the background_browser.skin

**Sal R.** · 06-18-2008, 09:22 AM

Umm...is there supposed to be a space b/w the ";" and the "=" in the CNF_BKG1 command?

Cuz I just tried your code w/o the space in my mock-up background skin and the press and hold worked...

**JohnWPB** · 06-18-2008, 10:27 AM

It is a well known forum problem. The forum will break extra long lines with a space. The only way to prevent this from happening is to wrap them in the code/php tags.

**Valheru** · 06-18-2008, 10:52 AM

hey guys ...

I've tried just about everything I can, includeing replicating MGD's code etc and still no joy ... whenever I add the code for the Confirmation popup, the data is not saved correctly. BTW i'm using the beta RR version with fixed weather - if that makes any difference.

back to the drawing board - and more scratching of the head for while

**MGD** · 06-18-2008, 11:12 AM

I have no clue on what you're doing, mine works with the newest Beta.
What is not saved? DO you have the path to the backgounds set in the browser?

**Sal R.** · 06-18-2008, 11:26 AM

Okay...try this. Put it all in one line:

Tried this in the new beta and it works for me...

Code:

"SETBG1","SETVARBYCODE;BKGND;LISTTEXT||SAVETOSKIN; BKGND1;$picspath$\$BKGND$||WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$confirm.txt; =/DEFINE CONFIRMTEXT New Background Set||WAIT;0.5||MENU;confirm.skin"


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