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chatrat12

09/30/19 10:10 PM

How to I create a top level ui element that will disable player input when visible?

I want to stop the player from being able to run around and cast spells while interacting with my UI

This is the behavior in menus. I also noticed the error frame behaves this way. I can't figure out what makes it special.

Edit: Just noticed the typo in the title, no idea how to change it xD

votan

10/01/19 07:18 AM

The keywords, you are looking for, are "scene" and "fragment".

You create a new scene there your top level window (as part of a fragment) is shown. If you add additional built-in fragments, you get the behavior like the menus.

Or you register a new "dialog" (ZO_Dialogs_RegisterCustomDialog) and call ZO_Dialogs_ShowDialog

Baertram

10/01/19 07:23 AM

Maybe th modal underlay at dialogs is also what you are looking for:
https://github.com/esoui/esoui/blob/...dialog.xml#L72

It creates something like a black transparent overlay below the modal and you cannot click anything except the shown dialog.

The code is an animation and maybe you can use it as well (self = the dialog int his case, so it could be your TopLevelControl or fragment control here):

Lua Code:

if not self.animation then
                self.animation = ANIMATION_MANAGER:CreateTimelineFromVirtual("DialogModalUnderlay", self)
                end
                self.animation:PlayFromStart()

chatrat12

10/01/19 12:17 PM

Thanks for the tips!

Quote:

If you add additional built-in fragments, you get the behavior like the menus.

This can't be done from a custom fragment? Is there a particular fragment I should be looking for? I'll investigate the dialog route, but I think the scene solution is probably what I'll want.

Quote:

Great solution, however I'm not concerned with the player clicking on other UI elements, I'm focused on the gamepad for this particular use case. I need controller inputs to only interact with UI.

chatrat12

10/01/19 12:30 PM

After looking at the scene/fragment model, I see that fragments wrap around your control. So, I don't necessarily need a custom fragment.

votan

10/02/19 02:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chatrat12 (Post 39328)

After looking at the scene/fragment model, I see that fragments wrap around your control. So, I don't necessarily need a custom fragment.

All the fragment "classes" you need are already there. For you own top level you need your own ZO_FadeSceneFragment "instance".
To stop all movement you can re-use STOP_MOVEMENT_FRAGMENT instance.

chatrat12

10/03/19 05:27 PM

Thanks for the help! I've been trying to add the ability to press a button while a redial menu is open to quickly set the selected entry. Adding some of the standard UI fragments got me the behavior I wanted :D

Lua Code:

-- Create scenes
local gamepadSceneName = "pw_radial_menu_keybind_strip_gamepad"
local gamepadScene = ZO_Scene:New(gamepadSceneName, SCENE_MANAGER)
 
local keyboardSceneName = "pw_radial_menu_keybind_strip_keyboard"
local keyboardScene = ZO_Scene:New(keyboardSceneName, SCENE_MANAGER)
 
 
-- Add fragments to scenes
gamepadScene:AddFragment(GAMEPAD_UI_MODE_FRAGMENT)
gamepadScene:AddFragment(UI_SHORTCUTS_ACTION_LAYER_FRAGMENT)
gamepadScene:AddFragmentGroup(FRAGMENT_GROUP.GAMEPAD_KEYBIND_STRIP_GROUP)
 
keyboardScene:AddFragment(HIDE_MOUSE_FRAGMENT)
keyboardScene:AddFragment(UI_SHORTCUTS_ACTION_LAYER_FRAGMENT)
keyboardScene:AddFragmentGroup(FRAGMENT_GROUP.KEYBOARD_KEYBIND_STRIP_GROUP)

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