Super Simple Journal

[boon]

Have you ignored the many many things about necroposting up topics? I suppose this isn't too bad as it's only 11 days.

You should ask for help in the script requests, not advertising your thread in this one.

 

[Brewmeister]

Colonist, this script doesn't do that. It's "Super Simple!" :scruff:

It was designed to be a simple 'to do' list. So your quest text would be / should be:

"Buy Brewmeister a beer."

Be Well

 

[boon]

Wow, I've been messing around with this system on RMXP. I've made it so that you can set switches that give you an X mark if you failed the task. I like it being simple, it gives huge room for editing without much RGSS knowledge.

 

[Brewmeister]

I think that was "Lamby-Poo's" objective in sharing it. :scruff:
(she is a pretty Hoopy Frood!)

I have 6 different versions of it myself.

It's not the cleanest code, but it does illustrate making a scene with windows well.

Have fun with it.

 

[harvest_moon]

In my script list, there is no Window_Menu. There is, however a Windown_MenuScene. What do I do? There is a Scene_Menu... which is odd...

 

[Brewmeister]

You didn't read the whole thread, did you?  Halfway down page 2, are modified instructions.
We know there is no 'Window_Menu' in the default scripts. Lambchop must have had a customized version to start with.

There is no 'Windown_MenuScene'.  There is a 'Windown_MenuStatus', which is the right window in main menu.

Scene_Menu isn't as odd as you might think. When you open the menu, you are in a new 'Scene'. The scene is made of the other windows, and the methods to control what happens when you press buttons.

Anyways, follow the instructions on Page 2, and I think you will be ok.

Be Well

 

[killerbunny]

Hello Brew,

Its a great script but i have a problem. Now if i have received a weapon, The weapon is in my itemlist not in equiptment.

 

[Catchoun]

:blush: well, I've tried the first script given here to add a quests journal in my game... I'm a totally newbie in that kind of prommaning langage, so... sorry to bother... most of the time I more guess how it works because I've been a programmer a looooooong time ago, but in .... cobol... yes.... I admit it :smile:
so, I almost understand everything, or guess them, but I've got a problem with the "index" reference...
so far I use switches from 1 to n, it perfectly works, but the problem is that in my game, these switches are already used, so I would like the switches for the quests to begin at 301...
so I changed the value of @offset at 300 and put naturally the definitions of the data for the messages from 301 to n...
but at the end of the script, I'm told that
"TypeError occured - cannot convert nil into string"...
so, just to test, I've put the real value in the "item = @data[301]" and it works quite well, except the fact I've got the same message 2 times in my journal... :huh:
so, if I have well understood, seems the value of index isn't well "fed" and stays at nil, but I can't figure so far how to change that...
I've tried many things, but none worked and I guess I really miss something ... uch:
any help would be really nice... thanks by advance :smile:

 

[Brewmeister]

First, the offset applies only to the switches, not the data.
So, with an offset of 300, @data[1] is controlled by switch 301

Look at the refresh method, where it calls draw_item

            for i in [email=1...@data.size]1...@data.size[/email]

              if $game_switches[i + @offset] == true

                 draw_item(i)

                 @item_max += 1

              end

           end

The 'i' in the for loop is what gets sent to 'index' in the draw_item method. (not 'i + @offset')
So the first index getting sent is '1'
However the test for the switch is 'if $game_switches[i + @offset] == true'

 

[Catchoun]

ohhhh thanks so much :blush:
well, I thought the value of the data in [] had to be exactly the same as the number of the switch...
and then offset would apply both somewhere.... don't know why, I thought I had read that somewhere... maybe in another life... :
that's why I was totally beside my feet (don't even know if it's really an english expression, but it's a French one :smile: )

thanks again anyway, it's works naturally perfectly now

Catchoun offers a beer or anything else Brewmeister would like to thank him ... maybe a real old French Calva ? :grin:

btw, do you got any good link to get a good Ruby method ?... I'm not so young anymore :biggrin: , so, I need a simple one ...

 

[MirosMaro]

Hello! I'm so new to RPG maker XP & this is my first time I explore the script editor. Anyway, I did everything mentioned & when I tried to playtest the game it said: "Script 'Window_Journal' line 49: SyntaxError occured." Is it something I did wrong on my part? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Okay. I tried again & somehow it works. Thanks :biggrin:

 

[Brewmeister]

If you mean: 't Smisje Calva Reserva - Brouwerij De Regenboog, or even something similar, I'll be right over to collect!!! :scruff:
It looks delicious!
Heavy, dark beers are my favorite.

In english we say, "beside myself", which means pretty much the same.

I use the ruby site http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ for reference. But I was a programmer prior to learning Ruby.
Do a search on the site here, I know there's a list of references for beginners. And, we're always here for support as you go.

Be Well

 

[frankm1]

I tried with all 3 scripts posted here, but an error keeps comming up: (open the spoiler)

Spoiler

Script 'Window_Journal' line 104: SyntaxError occurred

I am using RPG Maker VX and the only other script I'm using is a side-view battle script.

 

[kyonides]

You might have not seen errors like this one...

@n = 0Â

That  shouldn't be there because it follows a number for no good reason. So delete any  you can find there.

 

[Brewmeister]

Weird. I dunno where the garbage characters came from, but I got rid of them.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

Be Well

 

[frankm1]

So I replace this line
self.contents.draw_text(10, @n, 640, 32, "â €”
with what?

 

[Brewmeister]

self.contents.draw_text(10, @n, 640, 32, "●", 0)

The scripts on the first page are clean now.

 

[frankm1]

I replaced the line, but it still has the same error. If I remove the line it just has one on the line above.

 

[Brewmeister]

Window_Journal should only have 79 lines. Did you paste some extra stuff in there?

 

[Drey]

Is there any way to turn the actual topics into buttons, though?

I know you told Colonist it's a simple script, but I could TOTALLY figure it out myself if I know just that, and how to identify the selected journal entry's ID, as that would help me find the right 'long' description, I can do the rest.

PLZ plz plz... you'd be my hero if you can just tell me heheh :P

Kudos for a great script by the way, I spent 4 HOURS today trying to work in a really nice-looking script that turned out to be only for VX... U.U (Building on XP)