Need help with buttons over an image

By kevinala · 2009-08-05

Description

Hey there,

I am coding a UI for my most recent rig and I'm looking to include a rendered image of the character in the UI with buttons over the image at the location of each control, making for easy selection of the control you want.

I had thought to include a bitmap control in my rollout, and then create the buttons and use either offset: or pos: to move them to where I want them over the image. But this made for a lot of work, didn't produce the exact result I wanted, and seems like a poor way to go about this.

If anyone could quickly point out a more efficient way of going about this I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

Comments (2)

Marco Brunetta · 2009-08-06

Using controls on top of each other is really just a recipe for disaster. You'll be much better using an ImgTag control, which is pretty much like a bitmap control but you get 10 times more events including a few that return the mouse position when the button is pressed.
Or if you are up for a challenge you can always use some .NET controls as they have all of that and more.

kevinala · 2009-08-07

Ahh awesome that was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much.

Speaking of .NET, is there a list anywhere of all the controls you can make with .NET anywhere? I'd like to start learning more since all I've used it for so far is making tabbed UI's. I just don't know the names of all the controls.