Boxed options and checking if a program is running

[Nickydude]

Hi Guys, I have two questions if anyone can point me in the right direction.

1/. How would I go about creating boxes around options kind of like the one's in this screenshot ("Lighting Shadows", "Visuals"...)?



2/. How do I check if a certain program is running (the program can be run from the app I'm creating [as well as running the program first then the app] but I want to make sure that multiple copies of the program are not running.)?

Any help would be appreciated? :grin:

[SEELE]

1. buttons and container(or just backdrops)

2. If you have developer there is an object called the process object, if you have standard you will need to get creative, perhaps using a combination of the pipe object and the 'tasklist' CMD command.

If you need examples of either, ill be happy to help when i get home today.

[Nickydude]

buttons and container

Is that an separate object, or part of an object? I would like this border to be dynamic so I could just resize it to fit the option panel it's around, if that's possible.

I don't have developer, just Standard.

Examples would be great. Thank you very much SEELE.

[uprize]

I think the Active and Background System Box objects do what you want!

[Nickydude]

I've been playing around with those and while I can get the rectangle, how do I get the text across the top-left?

[Stephen]

Here is a simple way to do it.

Example

Stephen1980

[Nickydude]

Ahh, of course! Just move the text, excellent! Thank you very much Stephen.


Edit: Ahh, you've used an image as the box, I wanted to have that automatic as there will be different box sizes and they would have to be retouched if I moved an option. Thanks for the effort but are there any other ways?

[Nickydude]

It's ok, I found a way around it.