Getting the scenes to appear in a window.

[Sceptile_Master]

Sorry that I've been asking for help in this forum alot lately but I've only been using RMXP (even though I've used previous RPG Makers before) for a few days and Ruby is proving taxing at points. This is probably kind of a big question so I'm not looking for people to completely tell me the whole answer (unless it's easier than I think) but instead point me in the direction of things to look up or what areas I should investigate. The idea is that my current menu system is like so which I am working on (I know it's not very good but as said I've only been using RMXP for a few days).

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The idea is that the bit where my party is (the Window_MenuStatus bit) changes to the item/skill/stat/whatever window instead of changing the whole scene. Help of where I should look to continue on next would be greatly appreciated, I'm not very ruby acquainted yet as I've just been learning by messing with stuff.

 

[Sceptile_Master]

Well I suppose I may aswell give a bump a try as I kind of need this help to continue with my game >.<.

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Generally, you can modify a scene by adding a new window object. Then in the update method, where it branches off into sub-methods, above the branch, add a check for your method.

class Scene_Yourscene
  alias_method :yourname_scriptname_yourscene_update, :update
  def update
    if @your_window != nil & @your_window.active
      update_yourwindow
      return
    end
    yourname_scriptname_yourscene_update
  end
  def update_yourwindow
    # your code here
  end
end

So just alter where it switches to your alternate scene to instead, create a new item window. Then, create your item stuff in your new method.

A good example of this is in Scene_Battle, in phase3.