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Newbie Joined: 01 Mar 2009 Posts: 3

So, I just purchused Cmud... and started reading the manual. Mildly intimidating. However, i figured it'd work best if i did a series of things and tried to figure them out, so I just started reading and doing things as i go. Then i saw something done with wintin, completely unrelated, http://images4u.com/will/spelltracker.jpg and i said wow, what a nifty idea. A window with clickables to turn things on and off, and eventually put more into the window as I learn. So far I've had little luck with this subject, #Makewindow seems to be very limited, I don't see a way to actually put anything but the mud text into the window, of course, that's just the manual. Hate to give up so easily, but Is there some material I'm not seeing that I should be reading up on?

Thanks.

Link Fixed, it was including the , in the url.

Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

That's actually really really easy, you can have a setup like that with status window. Window -> Status window, then right click on it and put whatever variables/ect you want in there.

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:37 am

I'm getting a 404 on that image, but there're a number of ways of tackling this problem - the status window is probably the simplest for displaying data, a "real" window would be better for interacting via MXP links, which is what I assume is going on in your image, from your description. Printing something in a window is as simple as doing #window windowname message or :windowname:#say message from the command line. This would probably be simpler than using the status window, which requires you to create status window objects via the package editor.

Finally, you might also want to take a look at buttons, which you can do various interesting things with. You can create them from the package editor's GUI.

I know that all this sounds very general, but you've only given a very general description and that, coupled with the lack of the image, means I can't give very specific help.

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:56 pm

You create links using mxp. For example, for the status window, you can go into the Package Editor (click the Settings button), then select New Status Bar option in the New toolbar menu. Enter a name (like "Armor") and in the Value field, enter an MXP SEND tag like this: