drawIcon

1.001.001.501.000.50

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Description

Description:

Draws an icon on the map. This command needs to be called every frame, preferably using the onDraw UI Event Handler. Some useful icons can be found in configfile >> "CfgVehicleIcons".

Problems:

Since command has to be drawn on each frame, performance can be degrade!

Groups:

GUI Control - Map

Syntax

Syntax:

map drawIcon [texture, color, position, width, height, angle, text, shadow, textSize, font, align]

Parameters:

map: Control

texture: String - Icon texture

color: Array - Text and icon color in format Color(RGBA)

position: Position2D, Position3D or Object

width: Number - Width of the icon (but not the text)

height: Number - Height of the icon (but not the text)

angle: Number - Rotation angle of the icon (but not the text)

text (Optional): String

shadow (Optional): Number or Boolean - Can be:

• 0 (false): no shadow
• 1: shadow (for text)
• 2 (true): outline (works for text and for icon only if icon angle is 0)

since 0.72

textSize (Optional): Number - Size of the text in UI units

since 0.72

font: String - (Optional) text's font

since 0.72

align: String - Optional, default: "right") text alignment. Can be:

• "left"
• "right"
• "center"

Return Value:

Nothing

Examples

Example 1:

Red icon with text: findDisplay 12 displayCtrl 51 ctrlAddEventHandler ["Draw", { _this select 0 drawIcon [ "iconStaticMG", // Custom images can also be used: getMissionPath "\myFolder\myIcon.paa" [1,0,0,1], getPosASLVisual player, 24, 24, getDirVisual player, "Player Vehicle", 1, 0.03, "TahomaB", "right" ] }];

Example 2:

Green text only: findDisplay 12 displayCtrl 51 ctrlAddEventHandler ["Draw", { _this select 0 drawIcon [ "#(rgb,1,1,1)color(1,1,1,1)", [0,1,0,1], player, 0, 0, 0, name player ] }];

Additional Information

See also:

drawArrow drawEllipse drawLine drawRectangle drawPolygon drawTriangle

Notes

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Posted on March 22, 2014

Waffle SS.

Icon will always remain the same width and height, if you want an icon scaled to the map, use: (sizeInMeters * 0.15) * 10^(abs log (ctrlMapScale _ctrl)) for width and height (guessimated).

Posted on July 20, 2014 - 16:59 (UTC)

AgentRevolution

If you want only text with no icon, you can use "#(argb,8,8,3)color(0,0,0,0)" as texture.

Posted on January 4, 2016 - 05:41 (UTC)

Benargee

Arma 3 1.54
This command does not seem to play nice with onEachFrame. It seems to draw on the main screen while maintaing position relative to the map position
Example: onEachFrame { findDisplay 12 displayCtrl 51 drawIcon ['iconStaticMG',[1,0,0,1],getPos player,24,24,getDir player,'Player Vehicle',1,0.03,'TahomaB','right']; };

Leopard20 - c

Posted on May 09, 2022 - 19:34 (UTC)

The icon size always stays the same, even after zooming in/out. To make the icon get bigger with map zoom, use this for width and height size:

private _scale = 6.4 * worldSize / 8192 * ctrlMapScale _map; private _size = _sizeInMeters / _scale;

For example, the following icon has an exact size of 50 meters on the map, even after zooming in/out:

private _scale = 6.4 * worldSize / 8192 * ctrlMapScale _map; private _size = 50 / _scale; _map drawIcon ["iconStaticMG", [1,0,0,1], getPosASLVisual player, 24, 24, getDirVisual player]