Working on a HUD, ScrW() is not your friend

[Digital Spit]

So, I'm trying to create a hud I created a HUD but! the only problem is how it's spaced on different peoples screens... the height is the same among everyone's screens it's the width that I'm having a hard time understanding, someone mind helping me here?

Here is how everyone sees it:


Here is how I see it:


How can I make it appear the same on everyone's screen no matter if they are running full screen, window mode or the res they are on?

[JamminR]

No exact memory off top of my head, however, the ulx motd, and XGUI, are both reasonably dynamic in where they start.
They grab the users original screen res, then do a multiplication to start at a certain percentage into the width of the screen (height too I think).
Then the code is smart enough I think to remain static if screen res is lower than a certain size.

[Megiddo]

JamminR is correct, we base it off percentages. Percentages brings some unique problems as well, but was the simplest for our purposes.

[Digital Spit]

So my best bet is to look at how the MOTD is drawn on the players screen and go from there?

[Megiddo]

Why not share the code you're currently using to position it?

[LuaTenshi]

Try adding some debug functions to your code to print the current coordinates of the hud as well as ScrW() and ScrH().

[Digital Spit]

The problem has been fixed!