I am working on a small mod for my server which will include some punishments and other random things for the admins.
At the moment I am doing everything through the console using my custom dvars, but it gets quite time consuming.

I have seen a few mods with custom quick menus (you know the menu where you can say things to your team "move it" etc.) and I wanna change this menu for my mod to control all commands through there.
Is there a tutorial or example out there I can refer to? I tried searching but didnt come up with anything useful.

Cheers

there isnt a tutorial for menu scripting, but i could give u some tips


it works like this:

in the .menu file u search for
CHOICE_BUTTON( ...... )
between this lines u see for example first numbers
the numbers indicate in which order they have to be placed

1 = top
2 = under top
3 = under 2
etc.

then u see ; and then a "" between this u can see for example text
this will indicate the button text, after that u see again ;
and with a command , one of these commands can be : Scriptmenuresponse "1";

this will send a response to the engine called 1

if u look up in _menu.gsc u will see a part like this

if(menu == game["menu_name"])
  switch(response)
         {
         case "1":
         self iprintlnbold("Response = 1");
         break
         }

game["menu_name"] , this will be defined your menu name ( mainly will be :#define CHOICE_GROUP "blabla" )
and in your .gsc it will be game["menu_name"] = "blabla";.

also u see now response , this will execute the script command IF that response is send out ( so if the button is pushed)

if response is send out, then it will say a text Response = 1.
i hope this is a bit clear.

also try to look in the quickcommands.menu , this will explain how u can work with Execkey.
Execkey is not with mouse but u can active a button to send out response .
example:
execKey "3" { close self; scriptmenuresponse "1"; }

this will close the menu self and send out response 1 when pushing button 3.

i hope this will make clear how to ;), if u need an example of some of menu scripts just PM me for some sources

Well i have forgot how to do it but i know this to change the "text" of what they say then go in to your main folder or "raw" as it is on cod4 and in that look in thelocalized_english_iw and in one of them their should be should be a mpui.str or menu.str or some other .str's look in them don't look in the singleplayer map names though waste of time, or if u want to change what they say then in another localized_english_iw file there should be sound/voiceovers/uk and theres different ones in there i know this isn't very detailed but i have forget how do it

thanks ukdjaj

i looked thru the scripts last night, I have a slight idea but I am still quite confused. It would be great if someone had some examples for me to check out

i have figured most of it out. I have made my changes to the menu and put them in the right folders, but when I compile my mod the changes dont seem to be there? Can someone explain how to compile the menus into the mod properly plz?

ok i got it to work with a lot of playing around and testing.
I have a question.

Is it possible to display player names in the quick menu?
I want to run a loop to count all the players and then display there names in the menu. Is this possible??? (it appears menu files dont allows arrays+loops)

bigredron writes...

yes, but u have to do set a new dvar first in the .gsc
like :
playername = getdvar("name");
playernamedvar = setdvar("nameplayerone",playername);

then go to menu and type at text : @dvarString "nameplayerone"

xholyx writes...


hey xholyx can you check your pms? I need an example if you have one.
Cheers