[SCRIPTING] Best way to put a menu within a menu?

[Deleted11438360User]

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Skyrim_Messagebox_Menu_Tutorial

 

So that is an example from the Nexus Wiki. What I would like to do is learn how to add another menu with a yes or no button inside one of the buttons. So if I chose button 1, it would pop up a menu asking me if I am sure and want to go ahead. If I click yes it would do stuff, but if I click no, it would obviously cancel. What is the best way to set this up? My head is currently spinning with all the other stuff I have had to learn. It's going okay though!

Many thanks everyone!

 

Edit: I want my script to extend an ObjectReference.

Edited May 5, 2016 by Guest

[skinnytecboy]

Well, I just call a second message with yes option. It works for me.

 

Script wise, use states and perhaps a global to dictate which message gets displayed with each choice

[Deleted11438360User]

Thank you. Could you perhaps do a quick example please? I'm a very visual person and that is how I learn and keep it in my noggin'. A very quick one-button option would be fine. My problem is knowing how I should lay it out correctly, as I have seen a few different ways to do menus.

 

Sorry for my stupidity! :laugh:

 

Edit:

 

I'll have a menu with various options like so:

 

if Button 0

;Cancel

 

elseif Button 1

Do stuff

 

So I need Button 1 to pop up another menu that says "Are you sure/ Y/N" and then stuff will happen on yes, but no will cancel the whole menu.

Edited May 5, 2016 by Guest

[FrankFamily]

Check this: http://www.creationkit.com/index.php?title=Options_Menu

The second from the bottom is pretty much what you want, a menu with sub-options, and it's worth reading the bottom of the discussion tab too.

Edited May 5, 2016 by FrankFamily

[Deleted11438360User]

Great Frank. I spliced it together, but I'm not sure about something... I basically do this:

 

Function Menu(int Button = 0)
Button = MessageMenu.Show()

 

And then in one of the button options, I link to this:

 

Function Menu2(int Button = 0)
Button = MessageBody.Show()

 

My question is... Would I need to change the int in Menu2 to something different, or can I reuse that like I have been doing? Does it matter?

[FrankFamily]

You don't need two functions, as you can see in the "Menu with sub-options" within the checks for the buttons pressed of the main menu you show the sub-options adn check the button that was pressed recycling the aibutton variable. Something like this may work, removed "If aiButton != -1" since in the discussion tab they say it's not needed sicne papyrus jusy waits for show to return.

Function Menu(Bool abMenu = True, Int aiButton = 0)
    While abMenu
            aiButton = MainMenuMESG.Show() ; Main Menu
            If aiButton == 0 ; option 1
                aiButton = Confirmation.Show()
                If aiButton == 0 ; yes
                  ;so something
                ElseIf aiButton == 1 ; no
                EndIf
            ElseIf aiButton == 1 ; option 2
                aiButton = Confirmation.Show()
                If aiButton == 0 ; yes
                  ;do something else
                ElseIf aiButton == 1 ; no
                EndIf
            EndIf
    EndWhile
EndFunction

EDIT: actually if you don't want to include a "back" button or something like that the while might be unnecessary, so maybe this works:

Function Menu(Int aiButton = 0)
            aiButton = MainMenuMESG.Show() ; Main Menu
            abMenu = False ; End the function
            If aiButton == 0 ; option 1
                aiButton = Confirmation.Show()
                If aiButton == 0 ; yes
                   ;do something
                ElseIf aiButton == 1 ; no
                     ;
                EndIf
            ElseIf aiButton == 1 ; cancel
              ;do nothing at all?
            EndIf
EndFunction

Edited May 5, 2016 by FrankFamily

[skinnytecboy]

Here's a small (snigger) example of a script cast via dialogue that spawns several messages

 

 

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Scriptname SKQWBMessageScript extends Quest  


Message Property SKQCHMB1  Auto  
Message Property SKQCHMB2  Auto 
Message Property SKQCHMB3  Auto 
Message Property SKQCHMB4 Auto 
Message Property SKQCHMB5  Auto 
Message Property SKQCHMB6  Auto 

Quest Property SKQChekrenControl Auto

Sound Property SKQFishPopSM  Auto  

Int Button

Function Message1() ;
       GoToState("ShowMGS1")
EndFunction

Function Message2() ; What, are you afraid of a little fishy?
        GoToState("ShowMGS2")
EndFunction

Function Message3() ; But this is a special little fishy, won't you try it?
        GoToState("ShowMGS3")
EndFunction

Function Message4() ; You're just being awkward on purpose now aren't you?
        GoToState("ShowMGS4")
EndFunction

Function Message5() ; What! I bet you're the type of person who reads the last page of a book first aren't you?
        GoToState("ShowMGS5")
EndFunction

Function Message6() ; Then let's get on with it then shall we?
        GoToState("ShowMGS6")
EndFunction

State ShowMGS1
   Event OnBeginState()
          Button = SKQCHMB1.show()
		  if Button == 0
                   SKQFishPopSM.Play(Game.GetPlayer())
                   Utility.Wait(1)
		     SKQChekrenControl.SetStage(50)
	     elseif Button == 1
		     Message2()
		 EndIf
  EndEvent
EndState

State ShowMGS2
   Event OnBeginState()
          Button = SKQCHMB2.show()
		  if Button == 0
		     Message3()
	     elseif Button == 1
		     SKQFishPopSM.Play(Game.GetPlayer())
                   Utility.Wait(1)
		     SKQChekrenControl.SetStage(50)
		EndIf
  EndEvent
EndState

State ShowMGS3
   Event OnBeginState()
          Button = SKQCHMB3.show()
		  if Button == 0
		     SKQFishPopSM.Play(Game.GetPlayer())
                   Utility.Wait(1)
		     SKQChekrenControl.SetStage(50)
	     elseif Button == 1
		     Message4()
		  EndIf   
  EndEvent
EndState

State ShowMGS4
   Event OnBeginState()
          Button = SKQCHMB4.show()
		  if Button == 0
		     Message5()
	     elseif Button == 1
		     Message5()
		  EndIf   
  EndEvent
EndState

State ShowMGS5
   Event OnBeginState()
          Button = SKQCHMB5.show()
		  if Button == 0
		     Message6()
	     elseif Button == 1
		     Message6()
		  EndIf   
  EndEvent
EndState

State ShowMGS6
   Event OnBeginState()
          Button = SKQCHMB6.show()
		  if Button == 0
		     SKQFishPopSM.Play(Game.GetPlayer())
                   Utility.Wait(1)
		     SKQChekrenControl.SetStage(50)
	     elseif Button == 1
		     Debug.Notification("The show must go on")
			 Utility.Wait(2)
			 SKQFishPopSM.Play(Game.GetPlayer())
                   Utility.Wait(1)
		     SKQChekrenControl.SetStage(50)
		  EndIf   
  EndEvent
EndState

 

 

[Deleted11438360User]

Thank you everyone, appreciate it.