Extending MainMenu

nfactorial · Oct 17, 2003

I'm trying to customize the menus in the runtime, to start with I just want to amend the current menu system. First attempt was to create a 'MyTestMainMenu.uc' file and declare my class:

class MyTestMainMenu extends MainMenu;

But ucc gives me the following:

Warning: Failed to load '..\GUIRes\TestMod.u': Can't find file '..\GUIRes\TestMod.u'
Critical: appError called:
Critical: Assertion failed: FriendlyName!=NAME_None [File:.\UnClass.cpp] [Line: 679]

I've tried adding a 'FriendlyName' string (and define it in the defaultproperties) but I still get the above.

Does anyone have any pointers, It's probably a noob error as I'm only a night old with unrealscript.

Thanks,
n!

Hellcat2k3 · Oct 17, 2003

Can you post your code, so we could take a brief look at it?

nfactorial · Oct 17, 2003

Hiya,
Not sure what you mean, my entire 'MyTestMainMenu' consists looks like:

class MyTestMainMenu extends MainMenu;

That's it

I just wanted to get it compiling so I could start modifying it. Although my first attempt changed a default property:

defaultproperties
{
VideoTabHint="I've Changed this string for no-good reason"
}

But that didn't compile, so I reduced it to just the class declaration to get it as simple as possible.

Thanks
n!

Hellcat2k3 · Oct 17, 2003

Try adding this:

Code:

defaultproperties
{
    GroupName="MyGroup"
    FriendlyName="Put A Fancy Name Here"
    Description="Put A Sweet Descr Here"
}

nfactorial · Oct 17, 2003

Thanks, I tried adding that and get 'Unknown property' so I added the following as well:

var string GroupName;
var string FriendlyName;
var string Description;

But I still get the compile error:

Assertion failed: FriendlyName!=NAME_None [File:.\UnClass.cpp] [Line: 679]

History: UStruct::Serialize <- (MyMainMenu TestMod.None) <- UState::Serialize <- UClass::Serialize <- (MyMainMenu TestMod.None) <- FArchiveSaveTagExports<<Obj <- FPropertyTag::SerializeTaggedProperty <- SaveStream <- UStruct::SerializeTaggedProperties <- (__OnCanClose__Delegate[0]) <- UClass::Serialize <- (Class TestMod.MyMainMenu) <- FArchiveSaveTagExports<<Obj <- TagExports <- UObject::SavePackage <- UMakeCommandlet::Main

Thanks,
n!

Radiosity · Oct 17, 2003

That's not a compile error, it's a general protection fault. Is this when you're actually trying to run the App after compiling the script?

nfactorial · Oct 18, 2003

nope, its a ucc error at the end of compilation.

Thanks,
n!

Radiosity · Oct 18, 2003

You get that after a compile? I'm impressed

Vito · Oct 18, 2003

Wow, neat, you're right. Wonder what's up with that.

Menu modification tutorials are the first thing we're going to be working on, but I can't really look into this until then. Sorry.

nfactorial · Oct 20, 2003

Oh ok, that's no problem. Just thought it was something I was doing wrong, thanks!

n!

Wormbo · Oct 20, 2003

nfactorial said:
Oh ok, that's no problem. Just thought it was something I was doing wrong, thanks!

n!

And what did you do wrong? It might be a mistake others could have problems with as well.

nfactorial · Oct 20, 2003

I didn't do anything wrong AFAIK, its an unknown issue that will be looked at in the future?

n!

wilecoy · Oct 22, 2003

You can edit the RTInterface.int file in the system directory and change VideoTabLabel="Video" to VideoTabLabel="I've Changed this string for no-good reason".

I would like to know more about the classe "MainMenu", cause after some searches, i didn't see anything about this class.

Thanx.

nfactorial · Oct 22, 2003

Yeh, changing the text wasn't actually the point. I wanted to alter the menu system, changing the text was just a simple thing to get started rather than a goal that was aimed for

MainMenu can be found inside the file "RTInterface\Classes\MainMenu.uc" file.

n!

Daid303 · Oct 22, 2003

I just stayed away from menus, and created my own menu using a Internaction

works quite well. The only disatvantage is that you'll have to code everything from scratch, even the mouse movement.

Vito · Oct 22, 2003

Tutorial on basic new menus using the Runtime

eblade · May 4, 2006

My apologies for bringing up a topic that is a couple years old now, but it appears that there are general problems with subclassing things that are descended from GUIPage ..

I am reworking the menu for a game built on the same release engine (2226), land of the dead (no, not a game done with runtime..), and am having similar problems:
Assertion failed: FriendlyName!=NAME_None [File:UnClass.cpp] [Line: 682] History: UStruct::Serialize <- (DAQueryPage UZGMenus.None) <- UState::Serialize <- UClass::Serialize <- (DAQueryPage UZGMenus.None) <- FArchiveSaveTagExports<<Obj <- FPropertyTag::SerializeTaggedProperty <- SaveStream <- UStruct::SerializeTaggedProperties <- (__OnKeyEvent__Delegate[0]) <- UClass::Serialize <- (Class UZGMenus.DAQueryPage) <- FArchiveSaveTagExports<<Obj <- UField::Serialize <- (Class UZGMenus.DAExitConfirm) <- UStruct::Serialize <- (Class UZGMenus.DAExitConfirm) <- UState::Serialize <- UClass::Serialize <- (Class UZGMenus.DAExitConfirm) <-FArchiveSaveTagExports<<Obj <- TagExports <- UObject::SavePackage <- UMakeCommandlet::Main

... when I add:

__OnKeyEvent__Delegate=DAGUIPage.HandleKeyEvent

to the defaultproperties.

Previously, I had attempted to simply subclass the game's mainmenu, and got the same error as the original poster of this message.

I'm curious as to if anyone's found a way to deal with these problems, as I'm not expecting any sort of a patch to fix it, but I would like to not have to create the -entire- thing from scratch...

Xander112 · Mar 7, 2009

Hey, i have a problem with modifing the menu. I have been able to change the text in runtime but not the Background. I have looked in all of the classes under GUIPage but didnt find where background is set. In this tutorial: http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/GuiReference.html#Images it states that it should be in GUIPage.

Anybody know where i can find it?

Thanks in advance,
Xander

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