.menu as hud-elem replacement bug

[kung foo man]

Thanks for the input, I'm not sure which way I will use, maybe a mix of both

There is one major drawback with these menus, and it may not suit your purposes because of it: the itemDef{} are limited: you can't use a dvar to show text; and you have to use an ownerdraw of some sort in order for the item to show.

Hm, I just commented the ownerdraw out and now it prints my dvar "test".

		
            //text            "[  ]"
            //ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON
            dvar test 
	

You tested that out? I wonder why it didn't work for you (testing on 1.2 here)


My setup is very simple atm: clean CoD2, made a fs_game, start with an link: in the fs_game-folder test_menu I have the ui_mp folder which contains:
- ui_mp.iwd: this contains only the ui_mp/hud.txt, because otherwise it's not loaded
- ui_mp/dpadhud.menu, this is not zipped, so I just type "map_restart" after each change for very fast testing

[Tally]

Thanks for the input, I'm not sure which way I will use, maybe a mix of both



Hm, I just commented the ownerdraw out and now it prints my dvar "test".

		
            //text            "[  ]"
            //ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON
            dvar test 
	

You tested that out? I wonder why it didn't work for you (testing on 1.2 here)


My setup is very simple atm: clean CoD2, made a fs_game, start with an link: in the fs_game-folder test_menu I have the ui_mp folder which contains:
- ui_mp.iwd: this contains only the ui_mp/hud.txt, because otherwise it's not loaded
- ui_mp/dpadhud.menu, this is not zipped, so I just type "map_restart" after each change for very fast testing

DOH! I was doing it with ownerdraw. Once I removed that, it works like a charm.

thanks for the heads-up!