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Troubleshooting gui
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Hi! How can i make a simple Button appear? What the is wrong? pre type="xml"
<screen id=“start” controller=“de.lessvoid.nifty.examples.helloworld.HelloWorldStartScreen”>


    <layer id=“layer1” childLayout=“center”>


       <panel backgroundColor="#0f4f" childLayout=“vertical” align=“center” valign=“center” width=“35%” height=“45%”>


        <effect>


        <onStartScreen name=“move” direction=“top” mode=“in” startDelay=“0” inherit=“true”  length=“300”/>


        </effect>


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        <control id=“button” name=“button” type=“button” align=“center” valign=“center” style=“nifty-button” childLayout=“center”/>


       </panel>


    </layer>


  </screen>
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I can se both “mainmenu” but no button, nor any other control -.- These are the importantst elements of nifty-gui, aren’t they? So why its that badly documented? The tutorial-xml is buggy, the only page that could have helped(34) is empty, bc some1 renamed the controlDefinition of the dropdownControl…

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are you using controlDefinitions ? im actually have the same problem as you, the 1.2 tutorial talks about it you will need to look at more complex examples to see how to use them.



1.2 tutorial : nifty-tutorial

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Solved… no matter how but i finally got this code working (its the full .xml, copy content and try!):

“<useStyles filename=“nifty-default-styles.xml”/”

“<useControls filename=“nifty-default-controls.xml”/”

are the important lines. care, the order matters! and you need all nifty-jars in your projectpath (nifty, nifty-examples, nifty-default-controls etc…)





pre type="xml"
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>


<nifty xmlns=“http://nifty-gui.sourceforge.net/nifty.xsd” 


       xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” 


       xsi:schemaLocation=“http://nifty-gui.sourceforge.net/nifty.xsd 


                           http://nifty-gui.sourceforge.net/nifty.xsd”>


 


 <useStyles filename=“nifty-default-styles.xml”/>


 <useControls filename=“nifty-default-controls.xml”/>


 


  <screen id=“start” controller=“de.lessvoid.nifty.examples.helloworld.HelloWorldStartScreen”>


    <layer id=“layer1” childLayout=“center”>


       


      <panel backgroundColor="#0f4f" childLayout=“vertical” align=“center” valign=“center” width=“35%” height=“45%”>


        <effect>


        <onStartScreen name=“move” direction=“left” mode=“in” startDelay=“6” inherit=“true”  length=“300”/>


        </effect>


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        <control id=“button” name=“button” type=“button” align=“center” valign=“center” style=“nifty-button” childLayout=“center”/>


        <control type=“button” align=“center” >


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        </control>


        <control type=“button” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”>


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        </control>


        <control type=“button” align=“center” >


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        </control>


        <control type=“button” align=“center” >


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        </control>


        <control type=“button” align=“center” label=“Quit” >


        <text font=“Interface/Fonts/Default.fnt” align=“center” text=“Mainmenu”></text>


        </control>


       </panel>


   </layer>


  </screen>


</nifty>






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aha thanks for posting that, now i can add buttons yay !