Weapons Menu pop up

[baardbi]

I have to be honest. It might be easier if you just explain what you are trying to do. There might be solutions already out on the forums.

I know that you want a weapon select screen to pop up when you press select, but I'm not quite sure how you were thinking of doing that.

 

[Electric cat]

Well i was loooking at doing a nametable file , and then addeding a curser system. Inventory items menu like metal gear or LOZ

 

[baardbi]

I see. It's a very cool idea. I haven't worked that much with nametable files, so I'm going to have to do some reading before I can help you further. I'll be very interested if you figure this out. Having a menu screen in the game would be very helpful with the game I'm currently working on.

My final tip for now is being very thorough with using the hash symbol every time you use a constant name #constant.

I'll inform you if I figure this out. Good luck for now.

 

[Electric cat]

Thanks for all the help you have been baardbi. So far the # on the constant is the only instruction i havent added yet

 

[Electric cat]

Are you sure that your "NT_WeaponScreen" is declared and set somewhere?

if I try:

LDA #$00
STA temp

DrawBox #$00, #$00, #$20, #$08, #$1E, temp, #$00, #$00, #$00

Code works! But it wont undraw once the input button is selected

 

[Electric cat]

Still working this code out, and have narrowed it down the drawbox lines as pictured. I turnes the arguments on in 8 but still getting this any ideas

 

[Electric cat]

I see 34 refers to an attributeTable I exportes nametable and attributes.
39 is the box area. That seems like i need to adjust the hight and width?

 

[dale_coop]

In the next version that will be out seen, there is a easier box system (for text, items, ...)
You should keep that idea for a new project with that version?

Btw, your errors say that you used unknown labels in your "Select Menu.asm" script, line 6. You should share that script.

 

[Electric cat]

Here is the script.
LDA#$00
STA #NT_WeaponsScreen

DrawBox: #$00, #$00, #$20, #$08, #$1E, #NT_WeaponsScreen,#$01 #$01, #$01

 

[dale_coop]

Your script is not correct...
if "NT_WeaponsScreen" is a variable, to should be:

LDA #$00
STA NT_WeaponsScreen

DrawBox: #$00, #$00, #$20, #$08, #$1E, NT_WeaponsScreen,#$01 #$01, #$01

But is "NT_WeaponsScreen" a variable? you created it?

 

[Electric cat]

Dale I looked at your Selection Menu (http://nesmakers.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2707&hilit=Selection+menu
and is there a way to modify this ?. I am really trying to not rely on Joe and the team right now to finish a Demo.
I am using the NT_WeaponsScreen as the constant.

 

[Electric cat]

UPDATE! the input works now. BUT it draws about the quarterbof the screen black and stays that way. It wont sraw the nametable any ideas?

 

[dale_coop]

Yeah, my selection code could inspire you to be used with text (we use that too, in Artix's project)

if NT_WeaponsScreen is a constant, you can modify it (you can not do "STA #NT_WeaponsScreen").

The code would be just:

DrawBox: #$00, #$00, #$20, #$08, #$1E, #NT_WeaponsScreen, #$01 #$01, #$01

I can't help you on that, sorry, I would not have enough free time to digg into that code for what you want to achieve here. Still I can fix some issues, when I see them on the forum (like I do here everyday), but would be able to join projects.

 

[Electric cat]

I appreciate your help Dale and I will give this project to try a little bit later today and I will post up the results of it

 

[Electric cat]

I do have a question how do I calculate on the screen where I want the cursors at in number

 

[dale_coop]

Hmmm....
X is horizontally and Y vertically... in pixels.
So you identify your starting position, selection item 0... (try some values, test to see the result and adjust the values to find the correct ones... Then, for other positions (when you press the buttons) you ADD to Y or to X (usually #$10 or a multiple of 8) to get the others positions.

 

[Electric cat]

Thank you for that Dale!. I still uave it drawing the box which is good. How do I get it to undraw the box.