Main Menu GUI with source edit

[Lenton]

I'm working on GUI's and working with the source for my game, "Mayhem Online". I thought i might as well post something so you can rate it out of 10.

Main Menu

PS - The "53 Players Online" thing is a little bit of a lie. =P

So do you like it?

[Drummerpete]

Hmm.. 8/10
May not be elaborate and insanely difficult, but it looks really good.

[Robin]

You ruined it with default controls. It's not hard to make a custom one with normal, mouse_over and clicked.

[xeross]

It looks good but would replace the default controls

[Lenton]

@Robin:

> You ruined it with default controls. It's not hard to make a custom one with normal, mouse_over and clicked.

Yeah, i will be making my own buttons, it was either using the TE buttons or them. (temporarily)

Also i'm not sure how to make them change when mouse is over or clicked.

[Robin]

Double click the image you're using for the button, go to the little drop-down list on the top right and select 'Mouse Over' or 'Mouse Down'. In the code add something like this:

```
imgButton.picture = loadpicture(app.path & "\gfx\buttons\button_mouseover.jpg")

```
Obviously, that'll re-load the image every time you move your mouse, so some more advanced code is required. Basically, for Winds Whisper, I store all the button states in a type.

```
Type ButtonRec
Login as byte
NewAcc as byte
Options as byte.
etc. etc.
end type

```
Then use that to make a global.

```
Public Buttons as buttonrec

```
Then I can simply store the states in that type, to make it optimised and it doesn't keep re-loading images.

Something like this in Mouse Over:

```
If Buttons.Login = BUTTONMOUSEOVER then exit sub

If Buttons.Login = BUTTONNORMAL then
imgLogin.picture = loadpicture(login.jpg)
buttons.login = BUTTONMOUSEOVER
end if

```

[Lenton]

Wow, thanks Robin. This has helped alot.

[bendavies]

Nice looks good, also i like the way you have the login on the mainmenu. I wish i was good with VB. =(

[Robin]

The amount of skill to get a custom GUI in Eclipse is being able to drag around a couple of components.

You know what is a bitch to code? Resizable maps. They're a _b*tch_ to code.

[Warconn]

lol nice job on the GUI, i want to make something like that with the log in on the mainmenu, but all i have is VB5…. all i want is VB6 lol

Nice Job though