Switching Images (Skin) in Developer Help

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Jan 24 2012, 1:09 pm
(See the best response by DarkCampainger.)
My intend was to have a space on the interface that would change into another image from joining a channel. For example
Having a picture of a tree for the forest, then you enter another location and a picture of a city appears. This is for a text base game. Thanks in advance.
#1 Jan 24 2012, 2:05 pm (Edited on Jan 24 2012, 2:27 pm)
Best response
You can change a label control's image via winset().

Here's a quick example:
// Choose the icon
var/icon/I = 'city.dmi'
// Update the label to show it
winset(src, "testLabel", "image=\"\ref[I]\"")


Replace "testLabel" with the ID of your label control.
#2 Jan 24 2012, 2:11 pm
In response to DarkCampainger (#1)
Thanks, again.

(edit)
One question, if the image is in the .rsc itself would I still need to send the icon to the player's cache?
#3 Jan 24 2012, 2:26 pm
In response to AllSmiles (#2)
AllSmiles wrote:
Thanks, again.

(edit)
One question, if the image is in the .rsc itself would I still need to send the icon to the player's cache?

Nope. I just checked on my second machine. Works fine without it if the icons are packaged in the RSC. I'll edit my answer.
#4 Jan 24 2012, 2:45 pm
In response to DarkCampainger (#3)
Ok, thank you for confirming