Menu Script

[Wacov]

Min and max decide how many buttons there can be. It's quite complicated, and I think this is one of those scripts you're either gonna get, or not:

#Initialisation
if frame==1;
setVar("lrepeat",0);
setVar("rrepeat",0);
setVar("main_select",1);
end;

min=1
max=2

#key 'events'
if key("left")==0;
setVar("lrepeat",1);
elsif getVar("lrepeat")==1;
setVar("main_m",getVar("main_m")-1);
setVar("lrepeat",0);
end;

if key("right")==0;
setVar("rrepeat",1);
elsif getVar("rrepeat")==1;
setVar("main_m",getVar("main_m")+1);
setVar("rrepeat",0);
end;

if key("up")==1;
setVar("main_select",getVar("main_m"));
end;

#Menu behaviour
if getVar("main_m")<min;
setVar("main_m",max);
elsif getVar("main_m")>max;
setVar("main_m",min);
end;

It's used in this collab between me and Rogue: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=146cdf2b1a52c8cc234bd3546e70124a#

[MrPlanet]

WACOV, YOU HAVE OUTDONE YOURSELF!

[phy]

THAT'S GREAT.

[BTM]

...I've been trying to incorperate a menu using actual ruby, and although it's easy...

prompts = ["What do you want to control?"] defaults = ["Car"] list = ["Car|Boat|man"] results = UI.inputbox prompts, defaults, list, "MODEL USE SELECTION."
ÎNote, that up there is an example, and I'm not making anything that uses boats, cars and people at the time.

... I can't figure out how to properly incorporate it with the current workings of the onTick box. It will never get rid of the UI box, and a new one comes up as soon as you exit the old one: there's no apparent way to set it to a key in SP.

[Wacov]

Oh, BTM, that's boring! Menus in 3D, with little moving bits and nice effects, that's the way to go!

[BTM]

... But messageboxes and inputboxes are more practical, and less complicated to make. They also allow for input, like of you wanted to make a box that goes to a certain position depending on what you type in a field

... Once again, the problem with inputboxes (not messageboxes; they work fine) is that they automatically work every frame, and I can't get them to stop!

... Also, a 2 way switch can be easier, remember the one I posted a while back? (no link, sorry)

[CPhillips]

What do you mean it happens every frame? Even if you do something like...

if(frame==100); UI.message_box...;end

[BTM]

Ah! You're right! I guess I was writing it out wrong when I tried to get it to pop up when a key is pressed.

[Wacov]

You know the key detection system I use? That'd work for this.