Tooltip Formatting

posted on November 8th, 2010, 12:18 pm

Is there any way I can get fleet-ops like tooltip formatting for stock Armada2?  I know it requires a DLL, but I can't build one.  At least not yet.  Would the Fleet-Ops 3.0.0 DLL give me what I want if I plugged it into stock?

posted on November 8th, 2010, 1:08 pm

The tooltips dont require a dll

[TChapman500]

posted on November 8th, 2010, 1:38 pm

Last edited by TChapman500 on November 8th, 2010, 1:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Then how do I format them?  And don't tell me it's the sprites.  Nevermind, I already know it's the sprites.  How do I format them?

posted on November 8th, 2010, 2:10 pm

what do you mean with format them? the font files allows you to asign a sprite to a certain char.

posted on November 8th, 2010, 2:19 pm

How?

posted on November 8th, 2010, 2:37 pm

How?

Magic

posted on November 8th, 2010, 2:52 pm

Irrelevant.

posted on November 8th, 2010, 3:58 pm

How do I format the tooltips?  I'm familior with making buttons and weapons sprites, but I'm not famillior with tooltip 'sprites.'

posted on November 8th, 2010, 5:09 pm

tooltips are contained in the dynamic_localized_strings.h file in the main directory.  you edit them with a good text editor.  more info is in the guide.

Editing Tooltips - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fleet Operations

posted on November 8th, 2010, 5:24 pm

I know how to edit what the tooltip says.  That's irrelevant.

I'm wanting to know how to format them to have special characters like they do in fleet-ops, and to change the font, size, and how line-breaks are rendered.  Like the fleet-ops tooltips.  That's one of the few features I actually like about fleet-ops is how the tooltips are rendered and how flexible they are.

posted on November 8th, 2010, 5:33 pm

I know how to edit what the tooltip says.  That's irrelevant.

thats not very friendly lol, people try help you and you are so terse.

That's one of the few features I actually like about fleet-ops is how the tooltips are rendered and how flexible they are.

we all know how much contempt you have for fleetops, but do you really need to let us know so often? its kinda rude to go into someone's house then insult the decor.

posted on November 8th, 2010, 5:41 pm

Sorry.

posted on November 8th, 2010, 6:04 pm

No problem man, I think what you are looking for might be in the text_anim.spr(or something like that)

posted on November 8th, 2010, 6:38 pm

Do you mean "tex_anim.spr" or "TEX_ANIM_gui.spr"?  There is no "text_anim.spr" file.

posted on November 8th, 2010, 7:50 pm

most of the time stuff is caps insensitive