Grit now have Simple Menu

Razzeeyy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:31 am **Posts:** 12

Hey all.
There is a Simple Menu now in grit. It was inspired by that Counter Strike menus...

The menu can be accessed by pressing tilda (~)
Default keybindings for entries map for numeric keys (1-0)
Keybindings can be customized in the file user_menu_keybinds.lua
Which can be found at

Quote:

gritengine/grit_core/media/user_menu_keybinds.lua

Note that "gritengine" is the base folder of the grit repository...

This is how it looks like:

Spoiler: show

Newly added features (as requested):

HELP TO IMPROVE IT:
Post here what entries do you want to see in the menu? (Which actions you do often, which stuff you load often and etc.)
Your feedback will be used to improve the menu by adding missing entries to improve comfort and use-ability

DaBeast · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2012 7:51 pm

Looks awesome! (alltough your pictures are blocked at work so i can't see them :Aw:

) Have a salad, good sir! :letucce:

Keep it up.

JostVice · **Posted:** Wed May 30, 2012 8:12 pm

we love you <3

The things i told you on irc: the 0 could be 'back' instead of 'exit' (you can exit with the tilde button)

the developer menu is lonely, some functionality for those useful-but-long console commands: show normals/collision/lights/ all the debug info that is useful would be awesome

Arvis · **Joined:** Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:58 pm **Posts:** 91

This is awesome! Btw what map is it in the screenshots?

JostVice · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 9:40 am

thats Project sir

Kimd41 · **Joined:** Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:59 pm **Posts:** 57

Excellent, I suggest making a dark semi-transparent background to be able too see it more clearly. Like so:

Razzeeyy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:31 am **Posts:** 12

Kimd41 wrote:

Excellent, I suggest making a dark semi-transparent background to be able too see it more clearly.

Sure.

Razzeeyy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:31 am **Posts:** 12

Note to self: implement splitting submenu into pages if it's longer than 9 entries

DaBeast · **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:48 pm

Doesnt work for me yet, i tried reassigning the keys (i used verbose to check what keys i was hitting), but that doesnt seem to work..

Code:

simple_menu.Entries = {
   [0] = "+à";
   [1] = "+&";
   [2] = "+é";
   [3] = "+\"";
   [4] = "+'";
   [5] = "+(";
   [6] = "+§";
   [7] = "+è";
   [8] = "+!";
   [9] = "+ç";
}

Edit: Problem was the double " (fix this with \") now 1, 3,4,5,8 work, the rest doesnt.

MirceaKitsune · **Joined:** Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:32 pm **Posts:** 27

I like this! Nice to be using a menu and no longer have to write in the console each time (like include "playground/init.lua"). Only issue is that having more than 9 entries is a bit problematic, since you can't tap 10 or two numbers (but you could allow letters as well).

I imagine this is temporary though, since eventually I'm hoping for a full menu... skinned and with sub-menus and click / selection support. GTA IV's menu system is nicely tabbed and sorted so I'd consider that a nice example. I hope menus will also be defined in LUA and not hard-coded... wonder if this is possible already.

Razzeeyy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:31 am **Posts:** 12

MirceaKitsune wrote:

Only issue is that having more than 9 entries is a bit problematic, since you can't tap 10 or two numbers (but you could allow letters as well).

Nested menus pretty much solve that problem

And yeah ofc this is a temporary (I've written it because I'm to lazy to type again and again, lol), unless grit has a full featured GUI system

Then this menu will be rewritten for new GUI, and lots of new GUI control stuff will be done

MirceaKitsune · **Joined:** Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:32 pm **Posts:** 27

Razzeeyy wrote:

Nested menus pretty much solve that problem

And yeah ofc this is a temporary (I've written it because I'm to lazy to type again and again, lol), unless grit has a full featured GUI system

Then this menu will be rewritten for new GUI, and lots of new GUI control stuff will be done

The nesting works to some extent. This system actually reminds me of my mobile phone settings... where you call a number for your provider, and listen to a recorded voice describing which number keys to press for entering the next menu

What I was curious about is if the code would already support a full skinned GUI, or if changes are needed in GRIT before LUA can do that. For starters, I imagine it would mainly need to render text and images directly on the screen, then detect clicking them with the mouse.

Razzeeyy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:31 am **Posts:** 12

MirceaKitsune wrote:

What I was curious about is if the code would already support a full skinned GUI, or if changes are needed in GRIT before LUA can do that. For starters, I imagine it would mainly need to render text and images directly on the screen, then detect clicking them with the mouse.

Actually it is possible to build full featured menus/controls even with the current GUI system. But that is in very uncomfortable and unfriendly way and it's pain in the ass

, so the GUI system worth a rewrite. (though there was theme around about GUI system rewrite too)

Brian · **Joined:** Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:06 am **Posts:** 352

What about that? Same license as grit.

http://librocket.com/

A post about lua:

http://forums.librocket.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=874

lua manual:

http://librocket.com/wiki/documentation/LuaManual

There are more good reasons to use this than just taking a short cut - people already know how to use this.

Matt · **Joined:** Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:46 pm **Posts:** 6

I found http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/MyGUI while trying to package grit-ogre.

MirceaKitsune · **Joined:** Sun Dec 12, 2010 7:32 pm **Posts:** 27

Matt wrote:

I found http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/MyGUI while trying to package grit-ogre.

My knowledge is little, but I approve of using this.

Monsterkiller · **Joined:** Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:07 am **Posts:** 1

Nice,

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