Animated Announce

[JohnnyKing94]

I'm want to reproduce the animated announcement shown on the center of the screen when a gate is open or an elder scrolls has been stolen and before trying i want to ask if anyone of you tried to do that or if is possible to do that (adding own music sound)? some events triggered by a function that shows a yellow (purple etc) phrase on the middle of the screen... it's something that i desire and would be cool

[Randactyl]

Haven't used it yet, but I'd say you're looking for CENTER_SCREEN_ANNOUNCE:AddMessage()

The stock code is here: http://esodata.uesp.net/100010/src/i...ce/luadir.html

[JohnnyKing94]

Originally Posted by Randactyl Haven't used it yet, but I'd say you're looking for CENTER_SCREEN_ANNOUNCE:AddMessage() The stock code is here: http://esodata.uesp.net/100010/src/i...ce/luadir.html

So is it possible to reproduce a similar code to the original one?

[QuadroTony]

only who using addon will see it

[Ayantir]

Yeah, I do it in one of my addons.

Look at a nice post of Garkin who explain this (after the last quote) :
http://www.esoui.com/forums/showpost...93&postcount=4

Personnally, it's :

CENTER_SCREEN_ANNOUNCE:AddMessage(999, CSA_EVENT_LARGE_TEXT, SOUNDS.CHAMPION_POINTS_COMMITTED, SuperStar.lang.CSARespecDone, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil)

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by Ayantir Yeah, I do it in one of my addons. Look at a nice post of Garkin who explain this (after the last quote) : http://www.esoui.com/forums/showpost...93&postcount=4 Personnally, it's : CENTER_SCREEN_ANNOUNCE:AddMessage(999, CSA_EVENT_LARGE_TEXT, SOUNDS.CHAMPION_POINTS_COMMITTED, SuperStar.lang.CSARespecDone, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil)

Function now have another two optional arguments, so full description should be:

CENTER_SCREEN_ANNOUNCE:AddMessage(eventId, category, soundId, message, combinedMessage, icon, iconBg, expiringCallback, barParams, lifespan, suppressIconFrame)

eventId - primary use of CENTER_SCREEN_ANNOUNCE is handling messages from various events and each event has different priority. I'm using just 0 (eventId which is not defined), so my messages will have always the lowest priority.

category - The alert category to send the alert to.
CSA_EVENT_SMALL_TEXT, CSA_EVENT_LARGE_TEXT, CSA_EVENT_COMBINED_TEXT, CSA_EVENT_NO_TEXT

soundId - An optional sound id to play along with the message (sound defined in the SOUNDS table)

message - The message to alert (either a string or a function that returns a string that will be called every frame)

(Optional) combinedMessage - For combined text, the secondary text to display (either a string or a function that returns a string that will be called every frame)

(Optional) icon - An icon to be displayed with the announcement
NOTE: Combined text is the only thing that uses icons - and only on the small text label.

(Optional) iconBg - background for the icon above

(Optional) expiringCallback - A callback to be called when the announcement has begun fading out

(Optional) bar params - used for player progress bar

(Optional) lifespan of the message to be on the screen in milliseconds

(Optional) suppressIconFrame - if true, icon frame will be hidden