Castle Paradox

[bis_senchi]

Hello eveyone! Once again I came with troubles in writing and implementing plotscripts

I've made a predefined menu (menu 6) for my game and I would like to appear in place of menu 0 each time the player presses esc

The trouble is that my menu can with plotscripting (as the player changes map for nicer game making and many datas are stored in variables)

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
plotscript, menu launches, begin


suspend npcs
suspend player #allows basic menu 0 not to appear

variable (handle)
set variable (YourMoney, party money) # cherche combien on a d'argent
fade screen out (0, 0, 0)
show backdrop (0)

set variable (YourM,current map) #permet d'enregistrer notre position dans le jeu
set variable (YourX,herox(me))
set variable (YourY,heroy(me))

set variable (MyPicSet, get hero picture(me)) #permet d'enregistrer notre apparence
set variable (heropic1, get hero picture(1))
set variable (heropic2, get hero picture(2))
set variable (heropic3, get hero picture(3))

camera follows npc (0)
teleport to map (18, 2, 4)

escape behaviour:= 4 #permet de donner le bon cas pour le retour
wait (1)

set hero picture (me, 0) # hero 0 became invisible by default

if (hero by slot (1) <> -1) then, begin # if slot (1) is occupied
set hero picture (1, 0)
end

if (hero by slot (2) <> -1) then, begin # if slot (2) is occupied
set hero picture (2, 0)
end

if (hero by slot (3) <> -1) then, begin # if slot (3) is occupied
set hero picture (3, 0)
end

$20= "P.Good" #chance par défaut enlevé plus tard

# string 8 et 11 servent déjà à afficher la magie dans les combats pour hakkai et sanzo réutilisés
# pour la chance et la magie dans le menu!

string from textbox (8, 53, 0) #text box 53 L0 -> chance
string from text box (11,53, 1) #text box 53 L1 -> money
show string at (8, 167, 1
show string at (11, 167, 2


handle:= open menu (6)
fade screen in
show map

end
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My question is the following : in the article it is written that launching a script just before the menu comes up to prevent menu 0 from appearing is not a recommended anymore.

Could somoene confirm this and tell if if under custom a line has be added to change the main menu reference?
If this new way exists how am I supposed to do with the rest of the script?

If the function that have been implemented "only" provides to make appear menu 6 instead of menu 0 when the player presses esc I will still have to find a way to launch the rest of the script.

http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/index.php/How_can_I_run_a_script_instead_of/before/after_the_menu_comes_up_.html

As always thanks a lot for help and advise!
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[Bob the Hamster]

The current nightly builds have a new feature for making a different menu appear when you press ESC to close a menu.

It might help you do this with no scripting at all (or at least with less scripting)

[TMC]

So you want to run a script instead of opening the main menu when ESC is pressed, and that script opens the menu itself?

Well, there's no option to launch to script when a menu is opened (someone should add one!), so what that article says about the "Old Way" being obsolete isn't totally correct.

But what we really need is an option to launch a script instead of opening the main menu. Until it is implemented, the only way to do what you want is to follow the "Script Instead Of Menu" instructions in that article.

(The main menu is always menu 0, so you are meant to replace the default menu 0 instead of creating a new one.)
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[bis_senchi]

I managed to solve the problems by NOT using a loop to check if my script was already running at the beginning of my handler script!

I used the global variable to divide the script in sub-scripts

[bis_senchi]

I've got the following message from custom.exe

[Bob the Hamster]

That error message means that the menu handle is invalid. The "find menu" command returns a zero if it can't find a menu handle.

[bis_senchi]

[TMC]

You can use "bring menu forward" in an onkeypress script to switch to a different menu, like this: (I haven't tested this script, but hopefully it is correct)