accessing GUI menus within a game

[Delphi]

Does anyone know a way of getting to a GUI menu class during a game. I have a weapon that fires up a textbox and I'd like to set up a trigger that can change the text in the textbox.

 

[Bonehed316]

It might be easier to store the text in a location accessible to the menu (such as the PlayerController), and have the trigger change the text there (also accessible from triggers and weapons). But perhaps this is beyond the scope of your mod/mutator. You can store it in the weapon, and have the weapon send the text to the menu (check out the HandleParameters function for the menu). Or get the text from the weapon (through the PlayerController.Pawn.Weapon), and have the trigger change the text in the weapon (Pawn.Weapon). Depends on how deep you like your references, and how clever you are.

 

[Delphi]

Cheers, here's were I have a bit of a play to see how clever I am.

 

[Delphi]

Well I procrastinated for a couple of weeks but I've just sat down and got it working in about half an hour. For those that may come after, I basically put a string variable in the PlayerController. The trigger updated the string and the menu reads the variable each time it opens. Ta Daa.

I think that sort of success deserves a round of assult!

 

[Angel_Mapper]

If this is for a mutator you should put the variable somewhere else. Changing the PlayerController class will make it incompatible with a lot of other mutators.

If not, don't mind me.

 

[Delphi]

nope, not a mutator. I've already had to make a custom PlayerController to implement some other changes.

Ahh a mutator, my kindom for needed to script just a mutator...