VN Style: Showing Glossary Popup with Gamepad

[DeliMysticShelter]

Hello everyone!
I asked myself, if there would be a Possibility of showing the Glossary Popup in the Visual Novel Style without hovering over it with the Mouse, but instead for example pressing a specified Button.

My Idea by doing this was, if you press the "Glossary Button" the Game would set the Mouse automatically to the next Glossary Entry - but i encountered a few questions i couldnt answer.

1. How can i find out, if there are Glossary Entrys in the current Textbox, and how many of them are they

2. How can i get the Position onscreen of those Glossary Entrys to set the Global Mouse Position to?

[Jowan-Spooner]

I guess this might be possible somehow, but I've never tried something like it. It might be quite hard or even impossible, sorry.. Unfortunately RichtText meta tags aren't really designed to work without a mouse. It's one of the main reason why I've not implemented #576. If you figure something out, please feel free to share it.

For your first question I guess you can check this for your .

if "[url=" in $DialogTextNode.text

But for the second one, I don't have an idea, might need completely manual calculation or again, might be impossible. Sorry.

[DeliMysticShelter]

I came to a Solution, tho it's a bit messy, but i think it would be possible to implement without Magic Numbers/being able to modify it.

in the process function of the textbox iam checking if there are glossary words in it as you've shown.

If that's the case, you can press a Button to "search" for the Glossary words.

Now comes the messy Part, i basically manually looked for the Viewport X Coordinates for the left and the right end of the textbox, aswell as the Viewport Y Coordinates for every Row i will be using.

By Pressing the Glossary-Button, the Mouse will be warped to the Beginning and then moved through the Rows until it hits a Glossary Word (aka on_meta_hover gets triggered). Pressing the button again continues the process, until the Mouse hits the End of the Textbox.

I still need to figure out the perfect "Speed" of the Cursor, since very small Words can be skipped with this Method, but it gets the Job done, in the Video i have a very slow Speed.

2025-01-20.22-56-08.mp4

This should work with a hidden Mousecursor aswell, it also works while having the Cursor outside of the Window, since it snaps back to the Start.

In the Glossary Script i removed

	var pointer: Control = get_pointer()
	if pointer.visible:
		pointer.global_position = pointer.get_global_mouse_position()

so the Popup doesn't move when the Cursor moves

The following is in the textbox DialogText Script

var searching_for_glossary = false
var glossary_search_started = false

var left_end = 819
var right_end = 2055
	
var search_speed = 20

var row = 1
	
var row1 = 730
var row2 = 830
var row3 = 930
var row4 = 1030
var row5 = 1130

func _process(delta: float) -> void:
	if "[url=" in dialogic_node_dialog_text.text:
		glossary_button.visible = true
		glossary_check()
		print(get_viewport().get_mouse_position())
		
	else:
		glossary_button.visible = false
		
	if !revealing or DialogicUtil.autoload().paused:
		return

	speed_counter += delta

	while speed_counter > active_speed and revealing and !DialogicUtil.autoload().paused:
		speed_counter -= active_speed
		continue_reveal()

func glossary_check():
	var text_start = Vector2(left_end, row1)
	var text_end = Vector2(right_end, row5)
	

	
	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("mothers_call"):
		searching_for_glossary = true
		if glossary_search_started == false:
			get_viewport().warp_mouse(text_start)
			row = 1
			glossary_search_started = true
	
	var current_mouse_x = get_viewport().get_mouse_position().x
	var current_mouse_y = get_viewport().get_mouse_position().y
	
	if searching_for_glossary == true:
		match row:
			1:
				if glossary_search_started == false:
					get_viewport().warp_mouse(text_start)
					glossary_search_started = true
				get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(current_mouse_x + search_speed, row1))
				if current_mouse_x > right_end:
					get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(left_end, row2))
					row = 2
				
			2:
				get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(current_mouse_x + search_speed, row2))
				if current_mouse_x > right_end:
					get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(left_end, row3))
					row = 3
				
			3:
				get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(current_mouse_x + search_speed, row3))
				if current_mouse_x > right_end:
					get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(left_end, row4))
					row = 4
				
			4:
				get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(current_mouse_x + search_speed, row4))
				if current_mouse_x > right_end:
					get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(left_end, row5))
					row = 5
				
			5:
				get_viewport().warp_mouse(Vector2(current_mouse_x + search_speed, row5))
				if current_mouse_x > right_end:
					searching_for_glossary = false
					glossary_search_started = false
					row = 1