Help with Window_Help

[blazinhandle]

Hey, I'm trying to create a separate help window that shows the text over multiple lines rather than just one line (or rows) of text.

so instead of this:
_________________________________________________________________
|THIS IS A ROUGH DRAWING OF HOW THE REGULAR HELP WINDOW DISPLAYS TEXT|


something like this:
_________________
|SEE HOW THE TEXT |
|IS SPREAD OUT    |
|OVER MULTIPLE    |
|ROWS? I'M TRYING |
|TO DO THIS       |


What I'm trying to do is create a new Window_Help that shows multiple rows of description for skills, rather than the standard one row help text.

thanks!

[:)]

http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,256.0.html

[blazinhandle]

thanks nou, but I'm trying to use it for window_help so that I can draw the description text from skills and display it in multiple rows (yes like yours, but rather than a message, I want to display text using skill description text).

[nevfx]

Oh. I don't know, but I've always wanted to manipulate this, so I'll read here...

[blazinhandle]

no one knows of a script that can split a message into multiple rows?

[Blizzard]

The def refresh of Window_Message has the method you need. Basically it works that way that it gets one character, checks its length and if it fits into the window, it draws it, if not, it changes the line and "resets" the x coordinate.

[blazinhandle]

hmmm but i need it to reset the y coordinate so it spreads it out in a different row...how would i go about that?

[Blizzard]

Increase the y by 32. That's basically how the Window_Message works. Try messing arund with its code and see how it affects the functionality to find out what part of code is doing what. Don't forget to backup it first, lol!