Is a transparent imagemap quickmenu possible?

[AERenoir]

So, I have this textbox that's semi-transparent. After doing some mockups about the placement of the quickmenu, the one I like has the quickmenu buttons sitting on the textbox, like so:

(please don't mind the sample dumb text or the BG that's highly likely ripped from some commercial VN, it's just a mockup to see the textbox in "action")

Anyways, when I try to do the usual imagemap, the transparent areas will not become active and so I have to be super duper precise about positioning my cursor on the very-thin-text to click You can click on the sakura icons, I suppose, but It would be nice if I can click on the general area on the text too. Is it possible to make transparent areas into hotspots?

If not, then I can always rearrange the layouting, but it would be nice if I can do what I said up there.

[feathersnake]

*edit* Arowana's answer below is a much more simple fix to this question. I'll leave this here in case anyone happens to find it useful though. (minus the image examples because I think it's pretty straightforward.) This method is probably better suited to people that have oddly shaped buttons/hover areas with transparency. */edit*

If you're not dead-set on imagemaps, then this is really easy to do with imagebuttons. ^^ Hopefully this example is clear because I'm pretty much copy-pasting from a PM I sent a while ago.

Open your imagebuttons in whatever image program you use. Then add a new layer underneath whichever button you are currently editing. Make sure the area you want hovered is completely white on that new layer. Then go to the opacity for the new layer and turn it all the way down to 1. (Or even less, like .5, if you really want to make sure it doesn't show up. As long as it's a higher number than 0 )

Then merge your layers and save and tada! The player can now hover over the button in the area you put white under even though the white isn't visible. (You might want to save it in a different file just so you have the original somewhere if you decide to do something different. Or have the original copied somewhere else.) If you do this and have problems with it though, let me know. It's been a while since I've worked with GUI now.

It's also assumed that you have focus-mask set to True.

As for the use of imagebuttons in coding if you don't already know: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 51&t=22565

[Arowana]

I think all you have to do is use alpha False for the imagemap. So something like:

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imagemap:
   blah blah code

   alpha False

   blah blah hotspots

Not sure about the imagebutton example - I think you can set focus_mask to get a similar effect for imagebuttons?

[feathersnake]

Not sure about the imagebutton example - I think you can set focus_mask to get a similar effect for imagebuttons?

Probably should have mentioned that method with imagebuttons assumes focus_mask is set to True. ^^; Contrary to the example, I was using this for some odd shapes and areas. Which probably makes it pretty useless for something like this. Haha. A lovely lapse in judgment on my part.

I didn't even know about alpha False for imagemaps.

[AERenoir]

I think all you have to do is use alpha False for the imagemap. So something like:

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imagemap:
   blah blah code

   alpha False

   blah blah hotspots

Not sure about the imagebutton example - I think you can set focus_mask to get a similar effect for imagebuttons?

Ooooh!! I didn't know about this! Based on the description I think this works fine for me. I'll try it!

[johandark]

Is it possible make

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define gui.idle_color = '#555'

that text below textbox with 50% transparency?

I´ve tried this:

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define gui.idle_alpha = 0.5

But it doesn´t work.

I know this post is about "imagempas" but since is something very similar... I was just wondering