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SCI Programming => SCI Community How To's & Tutorials => Topic started by: Kawa on June 20, 2015, 01:21:39 PM

Title: SCI1.1: Editing the title screen menu
Post by: Kawa on June 20, 2015, 01:21:39 PM

As you know, at this moment the title screen menu for the SCI1.1 template game is very Space Quest 5-like. A bit too much in my opinion. Through a combination of decompiles, comparisons, trial and error, and deeply-buried experience with SCI0, here's how to turn this
(http://i.imgur.com/ucxbEmq.png)
into this
(http://i.imgur.com/lALPV7w.png)

The important bit is the buttons. As lskovlun guessed, this involves changing addColoredButton to addButton, so here's the details. You find this part, at line 127 of rm100.sc:

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(5
(= seconds 0)
(= gCursor 999)
(gGame setCursor: 999 1)
(Print
dialog: myDialog
font: gFont
width: 150
mode: 1
addText: N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 4 0 0 0
addText: N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 5 0 10 0
addColorButton: 0 N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 1 0 40 0 0 15 23 5 5 5
addColorButton: 1 N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 2 0 50 0 0 15 23 5 5 5
)

(= temp0 (Print
addColorButton: 2 N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 3 0 70 0 0 15 23 5 5 5
init:
))

(switch (temp0)
(0
(gRoom newRoom: 110)
)
(1
(gGame restore:)
(self changeState: state)
)
(2
(= gQuitGame TRUE)
)
)
)And basically replace that with this:

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(5
(= seconds 0)
(= gCursor 999)
(gGame setCursor: 999 1)
(Print
dialog: myDialog
font: gFont
width: 150
mode: 1
addText: N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 5
addButton: 0 N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 1 0 24
addButton: 1 N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 2 0 40
)

(= temp0 (Print
addButton: 2 N_TITLEMENU V_LOOK 0 0 56
init:
))

(switch (temp0)
(0
(gRoom newRoom: 110)
)
(1
(gGame restore:)
(self changeState: state)
)
(2
(= gQuitGame TRUE)
)
)
)Though personally I removed the message bits for preference and folded the print and assignment in one like this:

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(= temp0 (Print
dialog: myDialog
font: gFont
width: 150
mode: 1
; addTitle: {Window title anyone?}
addText: {Hi there. Please, make your selection:}
addButton: 0 {Play a New Game} 0 24
addButton: 1 {Restore an Old Game} 0 40
addButton: 2 {Quit} 0 56
init:
))
Bonus
You'll notice my window is not beveled. That's a one-line change. main.sc line 1290:

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(instance sq5Win of SysWindow //BorderWindowThat's it you're done. Technically I eliminated a whole lot more BorderWindow usages but this oughta do for anything (Print)ed.

Happy hacking.