Is there a way to draw an image dynamically on a HUD?

[Alexagon]

And what I mean by that is, draw an image on screen that can be moved around when some condition is met.

For example, I want to put a bar in my HUD that has the map name, but since map names vary so much in length, I wanted to know if there is a way to just draw the "end" of the bar right after the level name, so the bar never exceeds more than a few pixels after the level name. Essentially, the end of the bar moveswith the end of the level name dynamically.

I hope that makes sense. If anyone could help that'd be great.

[Dan_The_Noob]

well how do you plan to measure level length?

[kodi]

Once you got the level name accessible as a string, you should be able to do this:
YourCurrentFont.StringWidth(LevelNameStringHere) to get the width of the string, then clip the bar drawing to that.

[Alexagon]

Once you got the level name accessible as a string, you should be able to do this:
YourCurrentFont.StringWidth(LevelNameStringHere) to get the width of the string, then clip the bar drawing to that.

I'm not following entirely. How would I format it with this code I'm using?:

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drawstring CONFONT, white, levellump, 9, 6, 0, alignment (left);
drawstring CONFONT, white, levelname, 60, 6, 0, alignment (left);

[Alexagon]

anyone else able to help me with this?

[Graf Zahl]

No, not with SBARINFO. That is totally static.
If you want more dynamic effects you'll have to code your HUD in ZScript.

[Alexagon]

No, not with SBARINFO. That is totally static.
If you want more dynamic effects you'll have to code your HUD in ZScript.

Ok. Thank you.