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Moogle1 · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:46 am Post subject:

Like your login amirite?

(As an aside, I've noticed browsing certain topics in Paradox Lounge gets you logged out. (edit) and those topics have been wiped.)
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TMC · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:49 am Post subject:

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:17 pm Post subject:

That was me. I didn't notice I had been logged out by IM's recent fixes to the archive.

Yeah. There is no command for script-triggering a menu item handle.

I vaguely remember somebody asking for it, but I can't remember who.

I probably argued against it for some silly reason, and the person who asked for it was probably you TMC, so just in case I am correct on that hunch, I am just going to go ahead and commence feeling embarrassed as hell right now. ;)

bis_senchi · Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 460 Location: Reims, France

It appears that "use menu item(menu item handle)" may be what I need. It would a good thing to implement this command that enables to handle a new item.

Where are we supposed to send new feature propositions? Is there a way to implement it on his own adding lines in ploscript.hsd?

Thanks in advance for information!
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TMC · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject:

Ah! I should have recognised you!

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

That might have been me asking to trigger menu items by handle. But I can't remember at the moment. I was a pioneer in (asking for things dealing with) custom menues, ha ha
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bis_senchi · Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 460 Location: Reims, France

I know that I need the handle variable but I don't know with what command to combine it to use menu items using plotscriting.

TMC · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject:

James added a new command a couple of days ago to activate menu items, "use menu item (menu handle)". It was accidently called "activate menu item" in the dictionary, but this is fixed now.

What exactly do you want to do? Activate the currently selected menu item when the player presses s? That's pretty easy:

bis_senchi · Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 460 Location: Reims, France

Hello! I've made some tests and...

TMC · Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:25 am Post subject:

Oh! Sorry, I didn't notice notice that "wait for key(key:s)" is wrong. "wait for key" uses constants like usekey and anykey, NOT constants like key:s. You need to replace every "wait for key(key:s)" with "wait for scancode(key:s)"
Does changing that fix both problems?
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bis_senchi · Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 460 Location: Reims, France

Well it's better with the command

wait for scancode

but the space bar still interfer with the s key. I think I finally need to suspend totally player control for the menu.
I see how to activate the bitset but not how to stop it Could you tell me how to gives control back to the player once the script ends?

I think I also need to use the handle variable differently. I'm also counting on you to give me advice!

As always thanks very much for the help!
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TMC · Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:56 am Post subject:

You can use
set menu bit (handle, menubit:no controls, off)
set menu bit (handle, menubit:no controls, on)
To turn on and off normal player control of the menu.

It looks like you are using 'handle' correctly. Is there a problem?
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