Post by abarcendo24 on Apr 17, 2023 10:35:40 GMT
Hey All,
I have been wanting this feature for quite some time now so I figured I would just put it out there and see what response I get.
I have had countless scenarios when writing my scripts where I wished I had the ability to display an image UI element that can be rendered in a settings dialog. I could see support for images and icons being an extremely popular feature and would be extremely useful for the script users when it comes to using diagrams and training the user on specific features of the script.
One such use case I have been implementing in many of my scripts is 'region editor' feature I have built, allowing the user to change the associated region for any script image in scenarios where said users has a device with a vastly different aspect ratio than my development device. This is also a crucial feature I use depending on whether the focused game app has unique responsive rendering layouts on different screen sizes/ratios. This saves me a ton of time by not requiring me to write separate scripts for specific devices and rather distribute one script with instructions for the user on how to configure it if the default settings are not ideal for their device. Having the ability to visualize these regions when changing these settings would be extremely useful on both ends.
There are many more examples I could list but I think you see where I'm going with this so I will refrain for the sake of brevity.
Given that there is already full image support built into the AnkuLua in terms of reading image files from the device's storage, I'm inclined to believe it would be relatively simple to render that image data in the settings dialog. Please correct me if that's a terrible assumption.
Hopefully, many of you agree with me and we can vote this into existence. Thanks for hearing me out!
P.S.
Potential foreshadowing of the evolution of this data type....
I see potential with this image data type opening up the possibility to support something like an 'ImageRadioGroup' data type like this -
- and possibly even an 'ImageCarouselChoice' data type in the short future following. There are so many other possibilities.
I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's response! Good day!
I have been wanting this feature for quite some time now so I figured I would just put it out there and see what response I get.
I have had countless scenarios when writing my scripts where I wished I had the ability to display an image UI element that can be rendered in a settings dialog. I could see support for images and icons being an extremely popular feature and would be extremely useful for the script users when it comes to using diagrams and training the user on specific features of the script.
One such use case I have been implementing in many of my scripts is 'region editor' feature I have built, allowing the user to change the associated region for any script image in scenarios where said users has a device with a vastly different aspect ratio than my development device. This is also a crucial feature I use depending on whether the focused game app has unique responsive rendering layouts on different screen sizes/ratios. This saves me a ton of time by not requiring me to write separate scripts for specific devices and rather distribute one script with instructions for the user on how to configure it if the default settings are not ideal for their device. Having the ability to visualize these regions when changing these settings would be extremely useful on both ends.
There are many more examples I could list but I think you see where I'm going with this so I will refrain for the sake of brevity.
Given that there is already full image support built into the AnkuLua in terms of reading image files from the device's storage, I'm inclined to believe it would be relatively simple to render that image data in the settings dialog. Please correct me if that's a terrible assumption.
Hopefully, many of you agree with me and we can vote this into existence. Thanks for hearing me out!
P.S.
Potential foreshadowing of the evolution of this data type....
I see potential with this image data type opening up the possibility to support something like an 'ImageRadioGroup' data type like this -
- and possibly even an 'ImageCarouselChoice' data type in the short future following. There are so many other possibilities.I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's response! Good day!