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Library for hud message stuff in TF2.

This plugins exists mainly because CursorAnnotations, the thing e.g. Annotations, Gravestone Markers and ChatBubbles use, require a server wide unique id for their cursor annotations from how I understand. Not only does this library track and manage those ids, but it also provides nice natives in form of a methodmap to manage, show and hide those annotations again.

I also provide natives for HudMessageCustom, a small element centered in the lower half of the Hud. The only thing you should consider with this is, that cl_hud_minmode 1 or tf_hud_notification_duration 0 hides this element, so it probably shouldn't display critical information. The HudMessageCustom natives have an option to strip morecolors color values, so if you display messages that would normally be colored in chat do not print color formats in the hud.

Requires morecolors.inc (1.9.1) to compile.

You can view the Source and latest Release on GitHub

Changelog

23w45b
- Fix indexing and parenting
23w45a
- A bunch of stuff + 100 players
21w35a
- Added autoClose to CursorAnnotations for "fire and forget" usage
- Manipulating CursorAnnotations now requires the ID to be used
21w33a
- Added EscapeVGUILocalization
21w32a
- Initial Post

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OK, so recently I learned that CurorAnnotations use EditorPanel, and those would use the supplied text to search for localizations (resource/tf_language.txt).
That alone wouldn't be too bad, but that also means that it tries to replace %parameters and that can lead to strange results and bleeding strings, so I added a method to handle that:

Update to 21w33a

• Added EscapeVGUILocalization in case CursorAnnotation's VGUI EditablePanel are not supposed to look up keys and placeholders.
  - will prefix ^#?\w*$ strings with \x1f to prevent key lookup
  - will replace % with ％ (\xEF\xBC\x85) to prevent placeholder bind errors

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Update to 21w35a

• Added autoClose to CursorAnnotations for "fire and forget" usage:
  

  CursorAnnotation annotation = CursorAnnotation();
  annotation.SetLifetime(5.0);
  annotation.AutoClose = true;
  ...
  annotation.Update();
  // annotation.Close() is not required

• Manipulating CursorAnnotations now requires the ID to be used (aka you can't just use view_as on random IDs)

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Update to 23w45a

• Increased message length limit to 512
• Exposed ShowDistance
• Improved annotation tracking
• Added support for 100 players
• Lifetime can now be set negative for infinite
• You can now initialize arrays with `INVALID_ANNOTATION`

Should be compatible with older versions

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Update 23w45b

• Fixed client visibility bitfield
• Fixed follow entity only taking indices