Making a buttons highlight gradually across.

[MelonShooter]

So I need to make buttons highlight when they're hovered on, but no errors pop up and it doesn't work. This is a portion of my code.

cl_init.lua

	for k, v in pairs (buttons) do
		v["buttonvar"] = vgui.Create("DButton", ButtonsLay)
		v["buttonvar"]:SetFont("MelonButton")
		v["buttonvar"]:SetText(tostring(v["text"]))
		v["buttonvar"]:Dock(TOP)
		v["buttonvar"]:DockMargin( ScrH() / 70, ScrH() / 30, ScrH() / 70, ScrH() / 30 )
		v["buttonvar"]:InvalidateParent( true )
		v["buttonvar"]:SetSize(v["buttonvar"]:GetWide(), ScrH() / 30)
		v["buttonvar"]:InvalidateParent( true )
		v["buttonvar"]:SetTextColor( Color( 213, 213, 216, 255 ) )
		v["buttonvar"]:SetContentAlignment( 4 )
		v["buttonvar"].Paint = function(btn, w, h)
			draw.RoundedBox( 2, 0, 0, w, h, Color( 213, 0, 0, 0 ) )
		end

		v["buttonvar"].DoClick = function ()
			if IsValid(MFM_FirstPanel) then
				MFM_FirstPanel:Close()
			end

			if IsValid(self.ActivePanel) then
				self.ActivePanel:Close()
			end

			v["panelvar"] = vgui.Create(v["panel"], self)

			self.ActivePanel = v["panelvar"]

		end

		local highlight = vgui.Create("DPanel", v["buttonvar"])
		highlight:SetSize( 0, v["buttonvar"]:GetTall() )
		highlight:Dock( LEFT )

		highlight.Paint = function(btn, w, h)
			if v["buttonvar"]:IsHovered() then
				highlight:SizeTo( v["buttonvar"], h, 1, 0, function ()
				end)
			end
			draw.RoundedBoxEx( 0, 0, 0, w, h, Color( 255, 0, 0, 100 ) )
		end
	end

[MysteryPancake]

IsHovered() is not a function. You have to use the Hovered variable that's part of the DButton.

[editline]9th July 2016[/editline]

somebutton.Hovered -- true or false

[MelonShooter]

[url]https://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Panel/IsHovered[/url]

But it says right here that it is, but I'll try your way. Thanks MPan. :)

[MysteryPancake]

Oh, I didn't notice that. Maybe it doesn't work for DButtons for some reason, but I know self.Hovered does

[MelonShooter]

Ok Thank you MPan :)

EDIT: I might just being stupid or something, but the same thing is still happening. Here's my new portion of code.

	for k, v in pairs (buttons) do
		v["buttonvar"] = vgui.Create("DButton", ButtonsLay)
		v["buttonvar"]:SetFont("MelonButton")
		v["buttonvar"]:SetText(tostring(v["text"]))
		v["buttonvar"]:Dock(TOP)
		v["buttonvar"]:DockMargin( ScrH() / 70, ScrH() / 30, ScrH() / 70, ScrH() / 30 )
		v["buttonvar"]:InvalidateParent( true )
		v["buttonvar"]:SetSize(v["buttonvar"]:GetWide(), ScrH() / 30)
		v["buttonvar"]:InvalidateParent( true )
		v["buttonvar"]:SetTextColor( Color( 213, 213, 216, 255 ) )
		v["buttonvar"]:SetContentAlignment( 4 )
		v["buttonvar"].Paint = function(btn, w, h)
			draw.RoundedBox( 2, 0, 0, w, h, Color( 213, 0, 0, 0 ) )
		end

		v["buttonvar"].DoClick = function ()
			if IsValid(MFM_FirstPanel) then
				MFM_FirstPanel:Close()
			end

			if IsValid(self.ActivePanel) then
				self.ActivePanel:Close()
			end

			v["panelvar"] = vgui.Create(v["panel"], self)

			self.ActivePanel = v["panelvar"]

		end

		local highlight = vgui.Create("DPanel", v["buttonvar"])
		highlight:SetSize( 0, v["buttonvar"]:GetTall() )
		highlight:Dock( LEFT )

		highlight.Paint = function(btn, w, h)
			if v["buttonvar"].Hovered then
				highlight:SizeTo( v["buttonvar"]:GetWide(), h, 1, 0, function ()
				end)
			end
			draw.RoundedBoxEx( 0, 0, 0, w, h, Color( 255, 0, 0, 100 ) )
		end
	end
end

vgui.Register("MFM_Cover", PANEL, "DFrame")

[MelonShooter]

Bump?

[Invule]

use IsHovered. Add prints after the IsHovered check to see if it is actually called.