hudmessagetime

This function is used to find how long a given hud message will take to finish displaying. It is designed to be called within a delay function immediately after the hud message command. (See examples)

#define TICUNIT         35.725
function int HudMessageTime(int type, int length, int typetime, int staytime, int fadetime)
{
   Switch(type)
   {
   Case HUDMSG_PLAIN:
      return FixedMul(staytime, TICUNIT) >> 16;
   Case HUDMSG_FADEOUT:
      return FixedMul(staytime + fadetime, TICUNIT) >> 16;
   Case HUDMSG_TYPEON:
      return FixedMul(FixedMul(typetime, length << 16) + staytime + fadetime, TICUNIT) >> 16;
   Case HUDMSG_FADEINOUT:
      return FixedMul(typetime + staytime + fadetime, TICUNIT) >> 16;
   }
   return 0;
}

Examples

This example loops through an array of text strings, displaying each and waiting until it is finished before moving on to the next one.

script 1 ENTER {
     delay(35);

     for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
          HudMessage(s:Strings[i]; HUDMSG_TYPEON, 0, CR_RED, 1.5, 0.8, 2.0, 0.1, 0.5);

          delay(hudmessagetime(HUDMSG_TYPEON, strlen(Strings[i]), 0.1, 2.0, 0.5);
     }
}