[TUTORIAL] Creating menus + two library scripts

[ScRaT_GER]

Congratulations!
Dynamic menus are quite cool, aren't they?

Maybe I should include a passage about the common pitfalls with dymanic menus.

Greetings,
ScRaT

[Logain Abler]

Congratulations!
Dynamic menus are quite cool, aren't they?

Maybe I should include a passage about the common pitfalls with dymanic menus.

Greetings,
ScRaT

They are indeed

LA

[Cycrow]

yup just gotta remember to manipulate the correct array.

what you can do is clear the array and remake it, as long you use the same array address

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$count = size of array $menu
while $count
  dec $count
  remove element $count from array $menu
end

... (re add all your entries to $menu

[ScRaT_GER]

You can also simply resize the array to 0.
Maybe this is a little faster, since it doesn't need a loop.

Greetings,
ScRaT

[Logain Abler]

You can also simply resize the array to 0.
Maybe this is a little faster, since it doesn't need a loop.

Greetings,
ScRaT

Thanks for your help & time. This should be a sticky, your guide has improved the look & feel of my menus no end.

LA

[mark_a_condren]

This should be a sticky, your guide has improved the look & feel of my menus no end

Second that !!
For my own menu's

MarCon

[Firehawk777]

I am wondering if someone can help me out with getting to know the custom menus.
What I want to do is create a custom menu from already created arrays that has multiple columns and has a return value (the PIN) that sends the user to another custom menu with several choices.
I.E creates a menu of all the characters that contains their stats (from arrays I already have) in other columns. Each row (character) can then be selected. It then sends the player to another menu with different actions that the player can select.
Basically all I really need to know is how to get the multiple columns and how the return values work.




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[s9ilent]

If you look at the tutorials and resources stick at the top of the forum you will find links to quite a few custom menu tutorials.


LV's one is a fairly standard one for the basic menu's
But Scargarets (I'm spelling his/her name wrong-sorry ) is newer and has info on columns
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=261816


In short however, I'd imagine it would go like this (I'm not getting the syntax exactly right, but this is the general idea)

$menu = create menu [with heading/one of the other create menu variants]
* Then for each item in your input array, add it to the menu with return value (the PIN). Note, this is adding one ROW at a time like "add $rowarray to menu"
$returnvalue = open menu $menu

* Then you have a billion if statements for each of the if statements
if $returnvalue = xxxx
....
else if $returnvalue = yyy
....
etc.
end

return null








And to answer your two quick question.
Columns: When you add an array to a menu, it will automatically make the menu column'ed (with each array item in its own column, and I "think"-guess- there is a max of 5 columns, but I've never used tested it
my self)

Return values: Each row in a menu (or item in a menu -in the event its just a normal single column'ed menu) has a return value assigned to it (even if it's null). When you open a menu, it does something like this
$return = open menu $yourmenu
And the $return is value associated with the item that you clicked.
If you close a menu with the scape key it returns -1
If you have a menu item with a null return, then it is highlight able but not selectable (i.e You can put the mouse over it, but nothing happens when you click it)

Cols + returns: Same as a normal menu, 1 return for the whole row.



Hope this helps,
Scrat's tutorial is aces.

[ScRaT_GER]

Hi,

I just added two menu library scripts of mine to the start post (lib.scrat.format and lib.scrat.expand). Maybe you want to have a look at them.

Since I just learned a bit of HTML I decided to do the documentation in HTML so this is the result. Don't expect anything fancy.

Greetings,
ScRaT

[Pri]

the ....

http://www.file-upload.net/download-195 ... s.pdf.html

link doesnt work anymore.

Is there an alternate link available ?

thanks in advance

Pri

[ScRaT_GER]

Tutorial is up again.

Greetings,
ScRaT

[Pri]

Thank you very much for re-uploading this tutorial. Its exactly what I need at the moment !

Pri

[Nicoman35]

Hi ScRaT_GER,

I got TC v3.2

dowloaded your expand libraries: http://scripts.fbnz.de/files/lib.scrat.expand.zip

put them the scripts folder, then called 'a.00test' with a script call.
The selection is functional, but it will not expand.

Here a screenshot:

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What am I doing wrong?

* EDIT *

Ok, problem solved, I forgot to put the lib.scrat.format.xml in the scripts folder.

[Nekomata]

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Offer:
Provide to lib.scrat.expand.add extra argument for creating expandable sub-menus under selector.

[Gqqnbig]

waaa.. it's latex. You're so professional!

[X2-Illuminatus]

Since ScRaT_GER's website does not seem to be available any longer, I added his two tutorials to the Egosoft X3 wiki: Creating beautiful menus in X3: Terran Conflict and Creating menus + two library scripts. (The respective script files can be downloaded there too.)

I added both links to the opening post too.

[Admiral Vesna]

Thanks X2-Illuminatus for adding the alternatives!

Unfortunately I'm getting a secure connection failure with error code SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG, and thus I can't access them. Are you aware of any workarounds that I could make use of, or anyone that I could get in touch with to resolve the issue?

Thank you in advance.

[X2-Illuminatus]

The port number in the links was changed some time ago. I adjusted the links accordingly now. They should redirect you to the respective wiki pages now.

[Admiral Vesna]

Awesome! Thank you very much X2-Illuminatus!