An info-bar

[Trance]

I'm cooking up a custom menu, and I want to have a info-bar at the top of the screen. Info bar being when you hover over items, it's text will change to "Info: From here you can use items." and if you hover over equip, "Info: From here you can change a selected heroe's armor or weapons." See what I mean?

I can't figure out how to do it though. Help?

 

[Prexus]

You mean like the 'Help Window' that shows up in the Item and Skill menus?

 

[Trance]

Exactly.

 

[Prexus]

Add a help window object..

@help_window = Window_Help.new

then add this to your update method:

case @command_window.index
when 0 # Item
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can use items.')
when 1 # Skills
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can use skills.')
when 2 # Equipment
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can change equipment.')
when 3 # Status
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can view character status.')
when 4 # Save
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can save your game.')
when 5 # End Game
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can quit the game.')
end

The above code is for the default menu system. You may need to make edits for it to work within yours.

 

[Trance]

Ah... sorry it took me so long to respond. Alright, I did what you said, and I'm not getting any errors, the text is just not showing up. This is what it looks like right now:

class Window_Info < Window_Base
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Object Initialization
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def initialize
    @help_window = Window_Help.new
    refresh
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Refresh
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def refresh
case @command_window.index
when 0 # Item
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can use items.')
when 1 # Skills
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can use skills.')
when 2 # Equipment
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can change equipment.')
when 3 # Status
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can view character status.')
when 4 # End Game
  @help_window.set_text('Info: From here you can quit the game.')
end
end
end

And later on...

@help_window = Window_Help.new
    @help_window.x = 40
    @help_window.y = 40

And...

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Frame Update
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def update
    # Update windows
    @command_window.update
    @playtime_window.update
    @gold_window.update
    @status_window.update
    @help_window.update
    # If command window is active: call update_command
    if @command_window.active
      update_command
      return
    end
    # If status window is active: call update_status
    if @status_window.active
      update_status
      return
    end
  end

I would imagine that that is all you need to figure out how to fix this.

 

[Prexus]

x_x

You don't need to create a Window_Info.

The case block of code I gave you goes in the update method of Scene_Menu, and in the 'main' section you need to initialize a window called @help_window by doing @help_window = Window_Help.new