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A GM menu example?
« on: April 06, 2009, 02:11:44 am »
  • Pichuscute
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Yeah, I'm clueless as to how to make a good looking menu in GM such as something in a commercial game (was thinking like in pokemon). A menu that scrolls up and down and takes the selector from one option to the next.....yeah. It's simple but confusing to actually make. So how would I go about doing this? And example might help, IDK.
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Re: A GM menu example?
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2009, 06:07:16 pm »
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Mmmmk...so any help? Do I need to specify better? I'm not sure if I explained well enough.
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Re: A GM menu example?
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2009, 06:18:47 pm »
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I was working on a Pokemon Menu Engine a while back but stopped because I was working on other things. The source code really didn't get up to the moving of the arrow,  well it did but I didn't work the bugs out of it. I based it on a special character in the string of menu options creating an arrow space and recording the position of that arrow space. The neat part of it though was that it drew different size menus more efficiently by making them up from component parts.

Then again maybe that is not what you were saying. If you are referring to like an item menu thing, then there is just a maximum showable items, a decision statement to show an arrow or something, and then code to alter what is shown based on the size of the list and the items you have.
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Re: A GM menu example?
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2009, 09:04:19 pm »
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I need both (an inventory-like menu, and a start menu), but it seems this is way over my head.
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Re: A GM menu example?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2009, 07:50:35 pm »
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You basically need to keep track of positions of menu items, and iterate through a list of them. You need to draw the cursor at whatever position the list is on. You dig it?
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Re: A GM menu example?
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2009, 07:12:13 pm »
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Gotcha, thanks guys.
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