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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:10 am

Do these exist/work yet? I might be doing it wrong, heh. I go to New -> New Button then I put text in the name field and select menu from the Type drop down, then go New -> New Button State and put text in that name field and repeat the last step a few times. Then I click on the button in the UI, and nothing happens, no drop down, it doesn't even perform the stuff in the value field of the main button.

EDIT: Left out a step.

EDIT 2: Put my version of CMUD in the title, in case there is any confusion.

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:22 am

Apparently multistate button was what I was after, yay for playing around with settings, heh. But is this menu type button not supposed to work like I expected it to?...

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:40 am

Ok, after playing around with multistate I've run into a bug I think. I've put:

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

The way I do this is I place the value of the %if into a variable and place the variable into the button.

Inside the i_offclass, i_onclass, and i_offbutton, i_onbutton aliases I set the respective variable so.

AllOpponents=%if(%numkeys(@opponents)>1, "NONE", "ALL")

Then place @AllOpponents as the label.

It is better to place a variable for the button label whenever possible if the label changes.
The same goes for status bar/window values. The screen repaints itself when a variable that is used
in one of these changes it's value.

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:19 pm

The "menu" button is something left over from zMUD. It's been a while since I played with it, but if I remember correctly, you first set up a Class folder that contains several Menu items and then enable the "Class is a Submenu" option for the class. Then you create a Menu button and put the name of the Class folder into the Value field for the button. So the button itself only has a single state, and then points to the class folder that contains the other menu items. This allows a button to share the same menu as the right-click menu. It was a bit of a kludge and I'm not sure that anyone really uses this. But I've never done anything in CMUD to make it any more obvious.

For what you are doing, the Multi-state button is the way to go. The button caption should evaluate any expression, so I'm not sure why your %if expression isn't working. Using a variable is a good workaround, but I've added this to the bug list to investigate.

Apprentice Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 100

I have found similar problem with expansion in buttons names. I seem to remember a post about it not liking to expand beyond one level..

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:30 pm

Thanks for the responses. I'm sure I can get something worked out.