drawIcon

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Description

Description:

Draw an icon on the map. The command needs to be called every frame, preferably with "Draw" control event handler ctrlAddEventHandler.

Groups:

Uncategorised

Syntax

Syntax:

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

Parameters:

map: Control

texture: String

color: Array - [r,g,b,a]

position: Position2D or Position3D or Object

width: Number

height: Number

angle: Number

text: String

shadow: Number - 0: no shadow, 1: shadow, 2: outline (works for text and for icon only if icon angle is 0)

textSize: Number - (since Arma 3 v0.72)

font: String - (since Arma 3 v0.72)

align: String - (since Arma 3 v0.72) "left", "right", "center". Default is "right"

Return Value:

Nothing

Examples

Example 1:

findDisplay 12 displayCtrl 51 ctrlAddEventHandler ["Draw", " _this select 0 drawIcon [ 'iconStaticMG', [1,0,0,1], getPos player, 24, 24, getDir player, 'Player Vehicle', 1, 0.03, 'TahomaB', 'right' ] "];

Additional Information

See also:

drawArrowdrawEllipsedrawLinedrawRectangle

Notes

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Notes

Posted on July 03, 2013 - 15:35

Druid

Support of paremeters textSize, font and align is in the game since Arma 3 version 0.72.

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).