I've only just got into the plug-in scene but I've got several years experience in C++, C# and Java. Thing that I'm confused about, is if I'm missing something. I was looking at in-game menus and saw a tutorial on sdk source wiki site. It uses the user message "ShowMenu". It works fine but how did the person figure it out when there's no example of it being used in the source code. In trying to figure it out I looked up "UserMessageBegin" function only to find that there's no code for the function. Instead I find a interface class for a DLL. So I can't see a working example (where the functions used) and I can't see the functions code, so how on earth does anyone figure out how to use the function?
I was also looking at colouring in user messages. I think "UTIL_SayText2Filter" does that but it uses the user message "SayText2". That hasn't been declared in the source although because there's "SayText" it might not matter. I across a forum where they figured out you can use escape characters like \1 for yellow and \2 for green. Once again there's doesn't seem to any example of that in the source code. What I want is to be able to create in-game menus and user messages with colouring (like in mani plug-in) but from what I see, I can't see how you can figure that out. When you don't have access to the complete code (you get a bunch of interfaces with no explanation). Am I missing something that big, please tell me I am? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
