MenuQC Help Needed

[MauveBib]

Hey all, long time no see!

I'm working on a big project at the moment, and it's one that really needs menuqc.

Does anyone have any (working) links to any mods with sample menuqc I can take a look at? Other than Nexuiz/Whateverit'scallednow and the non-working DPMod code?

Cheers

[MauveBib]

More specifically, I need help with getting a working server browser, and text input boxes (for things like player name).

[Spike]

[Baker]

It has been a long time.

[MauveBib]

Thanks a lot, that's really helpful.

I'm having a bit of difficulty pulling through "gamedir"; the check for the correct gamedir isn't working and when I try to display it it's blank... Likewise I'm struggling to pull the server address through. I only seem to be able to pull through the "name" and "ping"...

Also, how would I go about having an input text box for the player to type things in e.g. server name, player name etc?

[Spike]

try 'game' instead of 'gamedir'?
I guess fte is a bit more permissive

regarding text entry, you'll have to draw it yourself. my version has that code in mitem_edittext.qc in that zip I already linked.
for menuqc specifically, m_keydown takes two arguments. the first is the 'scancode', the second is the 'charcode'. if its a proper text char (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, punctuation, etc) then the charcode value will contain a non-zero value.
you can then:
curval = strcat(curval, chr2str(charcode));
to append the printable char.
however you'll first want to check the scancode to see if its backspace or delete and use substring accordingly instead, of course (specify -1 for the length if you want the entire rest of the string by the way).

but yeah, you guessed it. draw it yourself, and do your own keyboard input.

once you do have text entry working, you can just sethostcachemaskstring() and then redo your sethostcachemaskstring calls with the new settings. the list should update accordingly.

[MauveBib]

Yeah, I pretty much figured that'd be the case for text boxes.

"game" works, but only pulls through "Darkplaces-Quake" for everything, so it's not much use for filtering on. Hmm.

[MauveBib]

Ok, a bit of trial and error, and the field name we're after is "mod".

[MauveBib]

Ok, really weird one.

To start a server I've got a button that runs the following:

cmd ("map start");

This works fine as long as the client has already been in a map, but if it's done straight from the menu without entering a map first it crashes DP half way through loading the map. Typing it from the console works fine.

I can even go into a map from the console, then crash out of the map back to the console and then the button will work, but straight from loading it crashes DP...

Anyone have any ideas at all?

[Spike]

define 'crash'.

there's no \n of course. but that shouldn't crash the engine, you'll just get some message about the map 'start<SOMECONSOLECOMMAND>' not being found when you next trigger some console command.

[MauveBib]

Physically crash out of the engine, window message "darkplaces has crashed..." or whatever.

I've tried with and without \n.

[LordHavoc]

Try "\nmap start\n" and see if that does anything good? The crash is definitely a bug though.

[MauveBib]

In the end I threw in a massive hack to just load a map at the start of the game and force the menu over the top, but obviously if it's fixable that'd be way better.

I'm away from home for a few more weeks but I'll have a play when I get back.