[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/12766 You can use a custom menu as a template for the Battle Menu

[Ralph Versteegen]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 10:04, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 9:31 AM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> It wasn't until I tried it out that I realised this is a big deal! Does
>> the name genDefaultBattleMenu imply per-hero custom menu templates in
>> future?
>>
>
> Yeah, I picked that name because I thought we might want
> per-battle-formation or per-hero customization later-- though I don't plan
> on working on those soon.
>

It's not super compelling, but does have its uses. Two-player hotseat
battles? :)


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>> I'll go finish that branch where I added a battle system pref bit to run
>> battles at the game resolution instead of 320x200. The part that wasn't
>> done yet (but which is easy) was proper positioning of the menu and HUD. Of
>> course, the battle menu preview should take that bit into account, and
>> ideally show the HUD too for positioning.
>> I'm not sure what this means for when we convert the battle HUD to slices
>> and let people customise it, but that's in the future. Maybe we can just
>> put a placeholder rect in there and copy its position back out afterwards.
>> The actual size of it would depend on the menu items.
>>
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> I have been thinking about how to make the battle hud customizable. I
> haven't settled exactly how yet, but I hope to tackle it sooner rather than
> later.
>

Because the HUD now doesn't contain a menu, it could be made customisable
first, whereas I think we should create an actual MenuItem slice type (an
evolution of plankmenus), and probably Menu too, and convert the menu
collections to those.
One thing I'd really like to have are slices that can be set to a % of the
width or height of their parent (actually, of the "support" rect, eg a Grid
cell), without using panel slices. And x and y as a % of their support too.


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>> Also, fun convergence of the things we were doing! I was also just
>> working on some similar deduplication, of the textbox drawing code
>> (actually, the textbox editor didn't use slices yet).
>>
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> Yay :D
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>> On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 15:09, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
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>>> james
>>> 2022-02-06 18:09:01 -0800 (Sun, 06 Feb 2022)
>>> 59
>>> You can use a custom menu as a template for the Battle Menu
>>> ---
>>> U   wip/bmod.rbas
>>> U   wip/common.bi
>>> U   wip/common.rbas
>>> U   wip/const.bi
>>> U   wip/generaledit.rbas
>>> U   wip/heroedit.rbas
>>> U   wip/whatsnew.txt
>>>
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