DBubbleContainer
Description
A transparent gray speech bubble panel made up of a rounded box and point coming from the bottom.
Parent
Derives methods, etc not listed on this page from DPanel.
Methods
DBubbleContainer:OpenForPos( number x, number y, number w, number h )
Sets the speech bubble position and size along with the dialog point position.
Example
Creates a bubble container panel in the middle of the screen. The background DPanel is used to allow better control of the dialog point position.
--Background panel
BGPanel = vgui.Create("DPanel")
BGPanel:SetSize(300, 170)
BGPanel:Center()
BGPanel:SetDrawBackground(false)
-- The bubble container
local DBubbleContainer = vgui.Create("DBubbleContainer", BGPanel)
-- Set the dialog point 50 units from the left and make the entire bubble 280x150 pixels.
DBubbleContainer:OpenForPos(50, 0, 280, 150)
Example
Creates a panel with Bill from Left 4 Dead talking through a speech bubble.
-- Image of Bill
local dimg = vgui.Create("DImage")
dimg:SetPos(0, ScrH()-512)
dimg:SetImage("spawnicons/models/survivors/survivor_namvet_128.png")
dimg:SizeToContents()
-- Determine placement of bubble container based on image dimensions
local dimg_x, dimg_y = dimg:GetPos()
local dimg_w, dimg_h = dimg:GetSize()
dimg_x = dimg_x + dimg_w/2
dimg_y = dimg_y + dimg_h/2.5
-- Bubble container size
local bubble_w, bubble_h = 150, 100
-- Create bubble container
local bubble = vgui.Create("DBubbleContainer")
-- Open it over Bill image
bubble:OpenForPos(dimg_x, dimg_y+bubble_h-32, bubble_w, bubble_h)
-- Add text to bubble
local lbl = vgui.Create("DLabel", bubble)
lbl:SetPos(5, 5)
lbl:SetSize(150, 50)
lbl:SetWrap(true)
lbl:SetFont("GModNotify")
lbl:SetText("Does this example get the point across?")
lbl:SetDark(true)
Output: 
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