hudButton

The number of blocks that will be visible within each section is dependent on the size of blocks contained in each section and the current size of the window. Blocks begin enumerating from 0 and flexibly increase based on need.

For HUD buttons, the format differs from that of the standard HUD. The layout using parameters defined by the formatting flags listed below (eg. justify, padding, buttonWidth) is shown below:

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|     |     |          |     |     |
|  P  |  J  |  Button  |  J  |  P  |
|_____|_____|__________|_____|_____|
P = Sub-block of width, padding
J = Justification of the entire block
Button = Sub-block of width, buttonWidth

Block Positioning

Blocks on the top section begin from the top edge of the main viewport, while the bottom section begins from the bottom edge. Blocks are dynamically removed from visibility from the midpoint of the viewport. So, a relatively large block number will not draw to the viewport.

Lastly, there can be at most one HUD occupying a block at any time. Trying to position a HUD in an occupied block will result in an error. Keep this in mind when positioning the HUD.

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|    |    |    |    |    |
|    |    |    |    |    |
| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  |
|    |    |    |    |    |
|____|____|____|____|____|
|    |    |    |    |    |
|    |    |    |    |    |
| 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  |
|    |    |    |    |    |
|____|____|____|____|____|

Each section is denoted by a number from 0 to 9 as illustrated above. For example, if the second column of the top row was desired, the section would be defined as: -sec 1

To prevent HUD objects from displaying over each other and causing a clutter of letters, each row has a defined visibility precedence, where each section would have a visibility priority level. Depending on each priority level, when the screen space begins to shrink to a point where the section widths of a given row begin to collide, the HUD automatically compensates for this by removing the sections of least priority. These sections are made invisible and a warning is issued to inform the user of the removal. This continues until only the section of highest priority remains.

For each row, the priorities are defined as follows. Using the top row as an example: Section 0, has the highest priority, followed by Section 4, making the outermost sections of highest priority. Next in the list is Section 2, and lastly Sections 1 and 3 are of the equal and least priority. This priority structure can be applied to the bottom row as well. The two outermost sections have the highest priority, followed by the middle section, and finally the remaining two sections are of lowest priority.

This means that as the viewport gradually decreases in width to the point where sections in the top row begin to overlap, sections 1 and 3 will be removed from view first, followed by section 2, and finally section 4. A similar note is provided below for the block layout.