How to refresh, dispose, and call by button ?

[Jason]

I'm in the process of making a HUD with some extra add-ons, so far all is working well, But I've ran into a few problems, When I go onto the menu, the HUD is still showing, so I think a dispose is needed here, also, not sure if/why it would be needed, but a refresh somewhere in the script ?
Lastly, well, let me explain first...
I have it on a conditional branch, when Q is pressed (L in the game), it will show the HUD for 50 frames, which works great, but that means I have to put an event on each map or whatever, however...
Is there a way I can make it so if a button is HELD, such as Q, the HUD will show, but as soon as I let go of Q, the HUD will disappear ?

Thanks to any help given.

 

[poccil]

This would be best solved by conditionally displaying the window on update (the
update method below is from the HUD's class, which is assumed to derive from Window):

  def update
    self.visible=Input.press?(Input::L)
    # ... rest of update method
    super
  end

 

[khmp]

Yes. A window has a boolean that enables/disables it from being seen. Window.visible.

So the trick is to just make the HUD window but make it invisible until the Q is being depressed than toggle it on. Else turn this flag to false.

class Scene_Map
  alias_method :jbri_hudwindow_main, :main
  alias_method :jbri_hudwindow_update, :update
  def main
    @hudwindow = Window_JbristHUD.new
    jbri_hudwindow_main
    @hudwindow.dispose
  end

  def update
    @hudwindow.update
    Input.press?(Input::L) ? @hudwindow.visible = true : @hudwindow.visible = false
    jbri_hudwindow_update
  end
end

This way it won't show on any other screen but Scene_Map. To install this just insert an empty section above and paste this code. I'm unsure on what your HUD object is named so you'll have to change that inside main.
See line:

@hudwindow = Window_JbristHUD.new

If you have any trouble with it just let me know.

poccil you totally knifed me.  :sad:

Good luck with it jbrist!  :thumb:

 

[Yeyinde]

Khmp, you can shorten that visible line a bit :pred:

@hudwindow.visible = Input.press?(Input::L)

 

[khmp]

You sir are amazing. You just wanted to use that predator emoticon didn't you?

Thanks for that Yeyinde! :thumb: