.menu as hud-elem replacement bug

**kung foo man** · 1st February 2014, 23:36

Hey all,

I wanna replace many precached strings with a .menu-file (ItemDef with dvar-attribute) but for some reason openMenu() is hiding all other 2d huds:

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Is there some way to draw a menu without hiding all the other 2d stuff?

Regards

**IzNoGoD** · 2nd February 2014, 01:22

can you .foreground=true the hud?

If not, then you're mostly boned due to the fact that player-opened menus are different...

**kung foo man** · 2nd February 2014, 02:43

Hm, I don't see a way to foreground all the 2d stuff or the .menu

Gonna just put the dvar things in hud.menu, since that is displayed without any precaching/opening

**serthy** · 2nd February 2014, 06:31

replace your wm_quickmenu with a short placeholdermenu containing only that for every quickmenu:

Code:

onOpen
{
    openmenuondvar ui_quickmenu myquickmenu1 quickmenu1;
    openmenuondvar ui_quickmenu myquickmenu2 quickmenu2;
    openmenuondvar ui_quickmenu myquickmenu3 quickmenu3;

    //optionally:
    //closemenuondvarnot ui_quickmenu myquickmenu1 quickmenu1;
    //closemenuondvarnot ui_quickmenu myquickmenu2 quickmenu2;
    //closemenuondvarnot ui_quickmenu myquickmenu3 quickmenu3;
}

and in gsc update the corresponding var:

Code:

openQuickMenu( menu )
{
    player setClientCvar( "ui_quickmenu" , menu );
    player execClientCommand( "wm-quickmenu" ); //dont know the command when pressing [V]
}

opening a menu via wm_quickmenu prevents me from hiding allhuds when opening a custom menu

**Tally** · 2nd February 2014, 09:48

Script Menus will by default hide hud elements. You can get your mouse to work with them by using a dvar to allow it, but hud elements are typically hidden. They fixed this in COD4, and you now have to manually put in an aspect to the hud element to get hidden when a menu is open.

The only menus that don't hide hud elements are ones that are called straight from ui_mp (ie. none-script menus). There is, of course, the stock hud.menu. This is open all the time, and does not prevent hud elements from showing. I created my own one so that I didn't have to keep editing hud.menu (it was already too big), and you call these by hud.txt:

Code:

// hud menu defs
// 
{
	loadMenu { "ui_mp/hud.menu" }
	loadMenu { "ui_mp/dpadhud.menu" }
}

You will notice dpadhud.menu. This is opened on the player when he joins the server - whether he is in spectator or spawned. And it was designed to take over many hud elements because my mod draws too many hud elements, and I had reached the element limit. So, you might consider doing the same thing.

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.

Here is my dpadhud.menu with examples of ownerdraw:

PHP Code:


#include "ui_mp/menudef.h"



{ // DPAD HUD



    // KEYBOARD MAP

    menuDef

    {

        name             "keyboardmap"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         MENU_TRUE

        rect             450 425 640 40



        itemDef

        {

            name             "hud_keyboardmap"

            rect             0 5 50 50

            forecolor         1 1 1 .4

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            background         "hud_keyboardmap"

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest          "scr_demon_dynamic_perks"

            showDvar          { "1" }

        }



        itemDef

        {

            name             "hud_keyboardmap"

            rect             0 52 70 70

            text            "[ K ]"

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textscale         .25

            textalignx        14

            dvartest          "scr_demon_dynamic_perks"

            showDvar          { "1" }

        }

        

    }



    //Binoculars

    menuDef

    {

        name             "binoculars"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         MENU_TRUE

        rect             370 428 640 40



        itemDef

        {

            name             "binoculars"

            rect             5 5 34 34

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "weapon_binoculars"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_binoculars"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }



        itemDef

        {

            name             "binoculars"

            rect             -1 50 70 70

            text            "[ L ]"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        14

            dvartest        "cg_player_binoculars"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

    }



    //Tactical Insertion

    menuDef

    {

        name             "insertion"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         MENU_TRUE

        rect             300 428 640 40



        itemDef

        {

            name             "insertion"

            rect             7 7 30 30

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "hud_insertion"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_insertion"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }



        itemDef

        {

            name             "insertion"

            rect             -1 50 70 70

            text            "[ M ]"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        14

            dvartest        "cg_player_insertion"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

    }



    //First Aid

    menuDef

    {

        name             "firstaid"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         MENU_TRUE

        rect             300 428 640 40



        itemDef

        {

            name             "firstaid"

            rect             7 7 30 30

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "hud_firstaid"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_firstaid"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }



        itemDef

        {

            name             "firstaid"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "[   ]"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        14

            dvartest        "cg_player_firstaid"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

    

        itemDef

        {

            name             "firstaid"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "0"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        19

            dvartest        "cg_player_firstaid_value"

            showDvar        { "0" }

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "firstaid"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "1"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        19

            dvartest        "cg_player_firstaid_value"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "firstaid"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "2"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        19

            dvartest        "cg_player_firstaid_value"

            showDvar        { "2" }

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "firstaid"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "3"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        19

            dvartest        "cg_player_firstaid_value"

            showDvar        { "3" }

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "firstaid"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "4"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        19

            dvartest        "cg_player_firstaid_value"

            showDvar        { "4" }

            

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "firstaid"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "5"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        19

            dvartest        "cg_player_firstaid_value"

            showDvar        { "5" }

        }

    }



    // TRIPWIRES

    menuDef

    {

        name             "tripwires"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         MENU_TRUE

        rect             230 428 640 40



        itemDef

        {

            name             "tripwire"

            rect             5 3 35 35

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "hud_tripwire_dpad"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_tripwire"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

        

        itemDef

        {

            name             "tripwire"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "[   ]"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_tripwire"

            showDvar        { "1" }

            textalignx        14

        }



        itemDef

        {

            name             "tripwire"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "2"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_tripwire_count"

            showDvar        { "2" }

            textalignx        19

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "tripwire"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "1"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_tripwire_count"

            showDvar        { "1" }

            textalignx        19

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "tripwire"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "0"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_tripwire_count"

            showDvar        { "0" }

            textalignx        19

        }

    }



    // LANDMINES

    menuDef

    {

        name             "landmines"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         1

        rect             230 428 640 40



        itemDef

        {

            name             "landmine"

            rect             5 1 35 35

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "hud_landmine"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_landmine"

            showDvar        { "allies" }

        }

        

        itemDef

        {

            name             "landmine"

            rect             5 1 35 35

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "hud_tellermine"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_landmine"

            showDvar        { "axis" }

        }



        itemDef

        {

            name             "landmine"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "[   ]"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_landmine_brackets"

            showDvar        { "1" }

            textalignx        14

        }



        itemDef

        {

            name             "landmine"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "2"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_landmine_count"

            showDvar        { "2" }

            textalignx        19

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "landmine"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "1"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_landmine_count"

            showDvar        { "1" }

            textalignx        19

        }

        itemDef

        {

            name             "landmine"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "0"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_landmine_count"

            showDvar        { "0" }

            textalignx        19

        }

    }

    

    //==================== HARDPOINTS ===========================

    

    //Artillery 

    menuDef

    {

        name             "artillery"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         MENU_TRUE

        rect             150 428 640 40

        

        itemDef

        {

            name             "artillery"

            rect             9 -2 39 39

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "hud_artillery"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_artillery"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

        

        itemDef

        {

            name             "artillery"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "[ 1 ]"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            textalignx        14

            dvartest        "cg_player_artillery_count"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

    }



    //Airstrike

    menuDef

    {

        name             "airstrike"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         MENU_TRUE

        rect             150 428 640 40

        

        itemDef

        {

            name             "airstrike"

            rect             5 2 37 37

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "hud_airstrike"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_airstrike"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

        

        itemDef

        {

            name             "airstrike"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "[ 1 ]"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_airstrike_count"

            showDvar        { "1" }

            textalignx        14

        }

    }



    //Carepackage

    menuDef

    {

        name             "Carepackage"

        fullScreen         MENU_FALSE

        visible         MENU_TRUE

        rect             150 428 640 40

        

        itemDef

        {

            name             "Carepackage"

            rect             6 -2 39 39

            forecolor        1 1 1 .4

            background         "hud_carepackage"

            ownerdraw        CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK

            visible         MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_carepackage"

            showDvar        { "1" }

        }

        

        itemDef

        {

            name             "Carepackage"

            rect             0 50 70 70

            text            "[ M ]"

            textstyle         ITEM_TEXTSTYLE_SHADOWED

            textscale         .25

            forecolor         1 1 1 .6

            ownerdraw         CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON

            visible            MENU_TRUE

            decoration

            dvartest        "cg_player_carepackage_count"

            showDvar        { "1" }

            textalignx        14

        }

    }

}

I use 2 ownerdraw: 1) CG_PLAYER_WEAPON_MODE_ICON = this draws text; 2) CG_PLAYER_COMPASS_BACK = this draws all my shaders.

**kung foo man** · 2nd February 2014, 14:58

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

Originally Posted by Tally

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".

PHP Code:



            //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** · 2nd February 2014, 18:05

Originally Posted by kung foo man

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".

PHP Code:




            //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!

**kung foo man** · 5th February 2014, 19:48

Ok, back to the menu work ^^

PHP Code:


            dvarTest "menu_show"
            showDvar {"1"}

That's also possible.

I needed some time figuring out why nothing at all were shown. Till I compared every menu-attribute with a working menuDef: the difference was "visible 1". It's even needed when every itemDef has "visible 1" already.

Edit:

Had to use:

PHP Code:


// format: uiScript openMenuOnDvar $cvarname $cvarvalue $menuname
uiScript openMenuOnDvar menu_ondvar mapvote mapvote;

**kung foo man** · 14th February 2014, 00:48

I'm writing a dynamic quickchat atm, it's working quite nice, but I have one "big" problem: I can't close the menu quickmessage by script (only ESC). Does somebody know how to close it?

Tried a mix of:

PHP Code:



            player closeMenu();
            player closeMenu("quickmessage");
            
            // failed lol:
            //player setClientCvar("menu_ondvar", "quickmessage");
            //player openMenu("quickmessage");
            //player setClientCvar("menu_ondvar", "");
            
            //player setclientcvar("clientcmd", "closemenu quickmessage");
            player setclientcvar("clientcmd", "say quickmessage"); // printed AFTER menu is closed by ESC
            player openMenu("clientcmd");

PHP Code:


wm_quickmessage.menu:
            uiScript closeMenuOnDvar menu_ondvar quickmessage quickmessage;

clientcmd.menu:
        onOpen
        {
            exec "vstr clientcmd";
            close clientcmd;
            close quickmessage;
        }

When I execute "closemenu quickmessage" by hand it works, but by script it's stuck by quickmessage-menu or so :S

Kinda running out of ideas

**IzNoGoD** · 14th February 2014, 07:52

Open it manually using openmenu().

Then you can closemenu() it

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