how to make from a normal screen an overlay screen

[kasje]

hi
i'm altering baddabings skins and i want to make a normal screen, an overlay screen.
first i have the menu screen and i want all my other screens to open in a smaller screen as an overlay.
menu screen-->


then a made the moviescreens smaller so it would fit the middle area of the menuscreen
see-->


but how do i make from this normal screen an overlay screen?

thanks in advance

[dalanik]

You don't make it. They're absolutely the same. It depends only on the event that opens it.

I.e. to open movies screen, something like

"goto screen films"

is called in eventgroups.

to open overlay, something like

"show overlay films"

is called.

that means that the button to open screen or overlay contains an event, and by changing this event (or assigning a different event to a button) you can change what it does.

So if u open editor with pause, and click the button that goes to films screen, check the group and name of the event that it executes.

Then close the editor and start configuration (F2) and find the event you found in editor.... and change it!

hope this helps, ask if you're unsure about anything. I don't know your xlobby knowledge level so don't go into more detail....

D.

[kasje]

Thanks Dalanik,

i looked at the event under f2 and changed the goto movie link to goto movie and the show overlay event.
It worked but then i saw the lines off the first menu screen under the movie tumbs...so i draw a normal rectangle in the moviescreen just the same size off the screen. And then bring the rectangle on the first line of the default tab under the skineditor so it became the background of the moviepage....worked like charm.

Just explained what i did if someone else needed it.

Thanks

[kasje]

oke, so far it worked for the movie screen..
picture >>>


but when i want to go to the detail of a movie (yes i first made the detail screen smaller so it fits in the moviearea overlay)
the moviedetailscreen opens correct but when i move my mousecursor over the detaildescreption..it changes from one moviedetail to the next one...just bij moving the mouse.
What can i do about that?

then i tried the all movies button to direkt back to the movieoverlayscreen....it doesnt work....i tried..close overlay...goto movies...but i doesn't work
How do i solve this?
>>picture>>


btw if the pictures doesn't work..the first it worked for me but now i can not see them anymore (no idea why)
goto http://kasperjr.blogspot.com/
picture posted on september 13 and september 12

thanks in advance

[dalanik]

but when i move my mousecursor over the detaildescreption..it changes from one moviedetail to the next one...just bij moving the mouse.
What can i do about that?

Open editor and check if the detaildescription (what is that anyway a text field?) has any events assigned to it especially ENTER or EXIT events might do something like this....

D.

[kasje]

thanks Dalanik,

i have no idea why it works now..i just closed xlobby for a while..and when i started back up...the problem was solved..and i didn't changed anything?
to come back to the moviescreen from the moviedetailscreen...i made..under f2 events >> goto->moviedetail->show overlay new layer.....then to go back from the detail to movies, i used...f2 events --> goto->moviedetail->close overlay

so i've made 2 different goto-moviedetails ..with diferent events.

maybe there is a better solution and i don't now why it works now but it does.
The question for me is now.....do you always have to use "show overlay new layer" when you work with different layers over eachother.

[dalanik]

The question for me is now.....do you always have to use "show overlay new layer" when you work with different layers over eachother.

Only if you want the old overlay layer still open. If you need to open just one overlay at a time (which I thik is your case from the images you posted - if I'm not mistaken), you should use just "show overlay"... That would close old overlay and open new one.

D.