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Postby motorsep » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:41 pm

How can I create simple menu (some what like Quake menu, but with ability to use mouse at the same time as keys) using menu.dat and .menu files?
I looked into Nexuiz .menu files, but to me it looks like a mess :/
I don't even know what .menu file I have to create first and so on :(
Is anyone familiar with .menu files ?
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Postby Sajt » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:29 pm

Nexuiz's menu QC contains the .menu parser.

A simple menu QC implementation would not include the .menu files, it would all be done in the QC.

But I'm not the one to do it...
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Postby jim » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:42 pm

How complicated is doing a new menu with just QC? Does it go to that same category as making new huds with CSQC?
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Postby Spike » Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:50 am

Supposedly you could do a fairly simple menu like quake has.
Seperate draw/keyboard functions, respond to just up/down/enter. Simple, and easy.
But then you don't have any mouse support.

Certainly the menu.dat nexuiz has is overkill, but it does actually do quite a lot of stuff. Of course, its utterly unreadable. :)
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Postby Urre » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:11 am

A new one will be released soon though. Dunno about the readability, but it's nicer to navigate anyway :P
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Postby Error » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:48 am

darkplaces has the cl_prydoncursor cvar that I use to make ingame menus.
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Postby daemon » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:41 pm

i don't recommend using cl_prydoncursor in csqc menus. it's only purpose would be to show where the mouse is located, and it's movement is different than what csqc's getmousepos() returns. just drawpic a cursor image where it should be in csqc.
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Postby mh » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:50 pm

I'd personally vote against mouse support in menus.

GLQuake (and presumably WinQuake also) release the mouse back to the OS when the menus or console are activated, and this is a Good Thing to have, IMO.

Mouse support on the other hand is nice to have alright, but is it really necessary?
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Postby Urre » Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:49 pm

mh: if you're making a game, rather than a mod, using a based-on Quake engine, which has little to do with Quake, you might want to. Keyboard only menus are rather '97
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Postby kable » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:07 pm

mh: Releasing/Ungrabbing mouse doen't disable mouse events. Ad the only change needed in the menu is using absolute mouse position instead of relatives.
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