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Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 5

Is it possable to put a gauge in the status window at all??? and if so how would i get started on it i have the guages all ready built

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:31 pm

No it is now. What you can do is creating a floating window, add the gauges to that and the remove the command lines and output windows.

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:57 am

No it is not*

Magician Joined: 25 Oct 2000 Posts: 461 Location: USA

This isn't really what you were asking for, but the following set of variables will allow you to create ASCII gauge bars in the status window. They are, in fact, quite excellent. This is not my code, it was in the zmud completed scripts forum years and years ago (actually, I think they predate that forum...). Unfortunately I can't seem to find any code at the moment that actually _uses_ these bars to describe how to set them up - you basically just pass in 3 values to the "bar" function, the 'current' value, the 'max' value, and the number of character across you want to make the bar.

What you get in return is something like this (here representing a half-full bar). It auto-colors and all. Add some text to the front to show 'numerical' values, and go to town.
[########................]

I'm sure this code can be improved with the new features of CMUD, but I have used this code as-is since... zmud 3.62 possibly? Kudos to the original author.

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:18 am

Nifty stuff. Not a lot that needs doing except changing it to the new function format. How about:

Magician Joined: 25 Oct 2000 Posts: 461 Location: USA

Thanks Fang. It was one of those things I never bothered to touch because it always worked so perfect. Tad easier to read now in the new format :)

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

I made a slight modification to Fang's setup. Which does work btw.

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:57 am

I did ponder using MXP colour (I prefer it) but decided to stick with the original method. One thing - you've missed out a comma between $col and ">" in your #return at the end there.

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:44 am

Sweet piece of code... I think I'll incorporate into my stuff and give folks the options of having status bar health vs. gauge buttons.

Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 5

Thanks for the info guys, and future possable code :), I gonna start withe ascii ones first to see hwo it goes :) but i have a couple questions about soem of the code

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Rangerman for your variables just place the function command in the status bar/window script box like so.

@bar(@chp,@mhp,27)

I just arbitrarily chose 27 as the size of the bar try different lengths to fit your taste.

To install Fang's you copy the text in the box; then paste it into the command line and hit enter.
To install mine you copy the text in the box; then paste into the tree view in the package editor where you want it.

Each one displays a little bit different. I wanted one that looked just like a button display.

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:13 am

I had started making my own status bar, with ascii chars and ansi color before I found this. Combined what I was working on and what you guys came up with and got this:

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:09 pm

$var = value creates local variables, so you don't need to declare them at the start. The only time you need to do it is when the scope is going to be an issue, such as the $col variable that's defined inside the #switch - unless it's defined in the body of the script, it'll exist only inside the switch.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Very nice, but if you want the text to show instead of the percent you need to remove the $text variable from the #local line.

As Fang mentioned the Only variable that needs explicit declaration is $col

Now someone needs to place this gem in the package library if it hasn't already found itself there!

I don't want to as all the real work was done by other people! *looks at Fang Zianfu, Wrym, and Mysterious original Author*

Magician Joined: 25 Oct 2000 Posts: 461 Location: USA

I tried a few times to dig up the original author, but to no avail. I definitely agree this belongs in the package library - I didn't realize how many people would take to it. Thanks all for sprucing it up.

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:18 pm

If only cmud:// links were in already. I've uploaded it anyway.

Also, one note to wyrm - #switch has support for a real else-command, there's no need to fool it by using (1). Check the help.