[VX] Images In Window_Help

[WolfwoodSama]

Pretty simple; I want to know how to display an image from the Pictures folder in the help window for items. I've been tinkering with it but I don't seem to understand how Window_Help obtains and displays its information. I'm not asking for someone to write me a script, but to teach me how this would work. Thank you.

 

[e]

Cache.picture("MY_PICTURE_NAME.extension")

Replace MY_PICTURE_NAME by the file name and .extension by the extension (e.g. : "bob.png")

That should return to your a Bitmap object. I'm sure you can manage afterwards

 

[WolfwoodSama]

Right, but what I meant was how would I modify Window_Help to display the picture, what code would I need to change?

 

[e]

You'll have to be more specific. Do you want to display both text and icon, simply an icon, or simply text? Currently, the Window_Help class is there to display text only.

For example :

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Set Icon
  #   icon  : the icon to display
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def set_icon(icon)
    if icon != @icon
      self.contents.clear
      self.contents.blt(0, 0, icon, icon.rect)
      @icon = icon
    end
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Set Icon Text
  #   icon  : the icon to display
  #   text  : the text to display
  #   align : alignement (0..flush left, 1..center, 2..flush right)
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def set_icon_text(icon, text, align = 0)
    if icon != @icon or text != @text or align != @align
      self.contents.clear
      self.contents.font.color = normal_color
      self.contents.draw_text(4, 0, self.width - 40, WLH, text, align)
      self.contents.blt(0, 0, icon, icon.rect)
      @icon   = icon
      @text   = text
      @align  = align
    end
  end

This will probably not give you what you want; for one, the icon will more likely be drawn above the text, which is probably not a good idea. Either way, set_icon should draw an icon only (note: it clears any text there was before) and set_icon_text should draw both icon and text (clearing anything there was prior to calling it).

To set the icon to be displayed in the Window_Help, you'd go into whatever other Window class uses it; there, you'd load the icon as I've shown above, and pass the bitmap as a parameter to one of the two functions.

If that's unclear, please specify what you need. I'm not even sure I'm pointing you in the right direction.

 

[WolfwoodSama]

Okay, I've rearranged the inventory screen so it looks like this:

+---------+---------+
|Item      |Help Box  |
|Item      |            |    <--Window_Help
|Item      |            |
|Item      |            |
|Item      |            |
|            |            |
|            |---------+         
|            |  <--------------Window_Item     
+---------+ 

Now, instead of displaying the help text in the help box I want to display a picture that has the same name as the selected item.

 

[hanmac]

why you use window_help?
make a new window xD

 

[WolfwoodSama]

why you use window_help?
make a new window xD

Right, but then I still don't know how to link the two.