Hey guys! I've got another problem... There's way too many of 'em... :/

I wanted to have one of the GUI objects slide from the side of the screen when I want it visible and then hide by sliding out of the screen again.

The problem is that I've tried a couple of methods and they either do absolutely nothing or crash the whole game

The one I've tried first (that does absolutely nothing):

The second and other ones similiar to this one (which crash the game):

Any help will be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Kiekos

Lerp doesn't work this way. Check description.
Also, in second code, your loop will be infinite, use something like this instead:

Well I dunno why wouldn't it work here... There is an instance of Lerp which takes these types of arguments and it works for example when turning my character around (changing angle.x).

Allright, the second method doesn't give the efect I wanted. It just hides the window instead of sliding.

If not Lerp, then what...?

Umm... just slow it.

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And if you want use Lerp it should look something like this:
questbar.getWindow("questbar").pos().x = Lerp(start_pos_x, desired_pos_x, slide_time);

where slide_time is cur slide time (not total) for example:
//init this somewhere
slide_time_total = 1.0f
slide time = 0.0f

and in your loop
if(slide_time<slide_time_total) {
slide_time+=Time.d();
questbar.getWindow("questbar").pos().x = Lerp(start_pos_x, desired_pos_x, slide_time);
}

I wrote it from head, didn't test it. This is not working code, only explanation

I'm sorry to say that it doesn't slow the action. It does the same even with very little values. Just *pop* and it's gone, no sliding.

EDIT: Look at this:

It works if I hold the button. But I'd like to have Kb.bp (pressed) and have the Lerp repeated to finish the motion. And if I put a while() there it stops working at all...

Same happens if I use your method with slide_time_total and slide_time. It doesn't do the whole movement, just like 'one bit' of it.

Quote:I'm sorry to say that it doesn't slow the action. It does the same even with very little values. Just *pop* and it's gone, no sliding.

It's because you do all operations in one frame.
Silly me... My bad, I look at your code briefly. Your whole code is wrong.

If you want your GUI object slide you need to update it every frame.

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//do this in some init function
Flt current_pos_x = questbar.getWindow("questbar").pos() .x;
Flt desired_pos_x = -D.w() - questbar.getWindow("questbar").size().x;


// check if button was pressed, then do this in every frame
if(current_pos_x > desired_pos_x)
{
current_pos_x -= 0.05f * Time.d(); // now sliding speed is const (0.05 per sec), you can change 0.05f to value that give you smooth slide
questbar.getWindow("questbar").pos(Vec2(current_pos_x,questbar.getWindow("questbar").pos().y));
}

Quote:Your whole code is wrong.

Oh well... I suck at this, lol.

Got it working like I wanted to, thanks!