Picture Menu

[DoctorTodd]

Picture Menu
Version: 1.0.1
Author: DoctorTodd
Date: 2/19/2012

Version History

• Version 1.0.1 2012/2/19 - Cleaned up by Pacman
• Version 1.0.0 2012/2/19 - Original Release

Planned Future Versions

• None planned so far...

Description

Sets the windows opacity to 0 and uses a picture instead.

Features

• Easy to use.

Screenshots

Put this in System and feel free to edit it. (Click on it for full size). There really isn't any point in a screenshot.

Instructions

1) Paste above main.
2) Put the picture in system and PUT THE CORRECT NAME between the quotation marks.

Script

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#===============================================================================
#
# DT's Picture Menu
# Author: DoctorTodd (edited by Pacman)
# Date (01/17/2012)
# Type: (Menu)
# Version: (1.0.0)
# Level: (Simple)
# Email: BeaconGames2011@gmail.com
#
#===============================================================================
#
# Description: Sets the windows opacity to 0 and uses a picture instead.
#
# Credits: Me (DoctorTodd), Pacman
#
#===============================================================================
#
# Instructions
# Paste above main.
# Put the picture in system and PUT THE CORRECT NAME between the quotation marks.
# 
#===============================================================================
#
# Editing begins at line 29 and ends at 31
#
#===============================================================================

module DT_PICMENU
  #Picture name.
  BACKGROUND = ('Menu_GUI')
end

#==============================================================================
# ** Scene_Menu
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  This class performs the menu screen processing.
#==============================================================================

class Scene_Menu < Scene_Base
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Start processing
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias dt_picmenu_start start
  def start(*args)
    dt_picmenu_start(*args)
    @GUI = Sprite.new
    @GUI.bitmap = Cache.system (DT_PICMENU::BACKGROUND)
    @gold_window.opacity = 0
    @status_window.opacity = 0
    @command_window.opacity = 0
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Termination Processing
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias dt_picmenu_terminate terminate
  def terminate(*args)
    dt_picmenu_terminate(*args)
    @GUI.dispose
  end
end



Credit

• DoctorTodd
• Pacman

Support

Post here for quickest support, or send me an email to BeaconGames2011@gmail.com

Known Compatibility Issues

None known of but I assume it won't work with other menus.

Demo

Pointless...

Author's Notes

I hate using the window skin for scenes, so I use pictures instead.

Restrictions

Free for commercial and non-commercial work but you must credit me.

[yuyu!]

Is this your first script? If so, then I offer my congratulations! If not, then I look like an idiot.

[DoctorTodd]

Thanks  I also have this one http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,44901.0.html

[yuyu!]

Well, I'm dense. Haha. So that's your first script? Understood.

I'll go properly congratulate you on your first script.

[pacdiggity]

Yuyubabe looks like an idiot

Interesting script, but it could be reduced a lot more, and made more efficient. What you've done is basically copied the Scene_Menu default script and made some slight edits to it. This is, while not entirely bad, a big compatibility issue for other menu scripts. You also didn't dispose the GUI bitmap at termination of the scene. It's also a good idea to store configuration inside a module so it's secure and suspect to being overwritten by usage of common names. Another thing I noticed was that you could alias all the methods you've altered here.
This isn't mocking your work or anything, I'm just giving you some critique. Here's what I would've done.

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#===============================================================================
#
# DT's Picture Menu
# Author: DoctorTodd (edited by Pacman)
# Date (01/17/2012)
# Type: (Menu)
# Version: (1.0.0)
# Level: (Simple)
# Email: BeaconGames2011@gmail.com
#
#===============================================================================
#
# Description: Sets the windows opacity to 0 and uses a picture instead.
#
# Credits: Me (DoctorTodd)
#
#===============================================================================
#
# Instructions
# Paste above main.
# Put the picture in system and PUT THE CORRECT NAME between the quotation marks.
# 
#===============================================================================
#
# Editing begins at line 29 and ends at 31
#
#===============================================================================

module DT_PICMENU
  #Picture name.
  BACKGROUND = ('Menu_GUI')
end

#==============================================================================
# ** Scene_Menu
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  This class performs the menu screen processing.
#==============================================================================

class Scene_Menu < Scene_Base
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Start processing
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias dt_picmenu_start start
  def start(*args)
    dt_picmenu_start(*args)
    @GUI = Sprite.new
    @GUI.bitmap = Cache.system (DT_PICMENU::BACKGROUND)
    @gold_window.opacity = 0
    @status_window.opacity = 0
    @command_window.opacity = 0
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Termination Processing
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias dt_picmenu_terminate terminate
  def terminate(*args)
    dt_picmenu_terminate(*args)
    @GUI.dispose
  end
end


[yuyu!]

Yuyubabe looks like an idiot

                                                 
                                                
                                                
                                              

It took me forever to do that - it better show up right.

[DoctorTodd]

@Pacman: I'm still quite new to scripting and I don't know to much about modules or aliasing methods, but I'll look over that to see if I can get a better understanding. Do you mind if I upload this as the most recent version?

[pacdiggity]

That'd be fine.

[haloOfTheSun]

Yuyubabe looks like an idiot

                                                 
                                                
                                                
                                              

It took me forever to do that - it better show up right.

Your efforts have not gone unappreciated.

[yuyu!]

Thanks, Halo! It may have taken me 30 minutes. I was purely bored.

I'm never

                                                 
                                                
                                                
                                              

at Pacman.