Gear dialog

[thebarricade 7]

I was wondering; is there any way to start a script when the gear dialog is shown (both in the case of pressing the Gear-key, and opening it via the action-menu)?

[das attorney 858]

You can determine if the gear dialog is on screen by looking for it's idd number. For gear, it's 106.

To test, write a little script like this and call it from trigger or in mission init:

while {alive player} do
{
player sideChat format["%1", findDisplay 106];
player sideChat "waiting";
sleep 5;
};

This will check if the gear dialog is active every 5 seconds. The important part is the

findDisplay 106

.

Hope that's useful for you.

EIDT:

Something like this will determine exactly when it's opened and closed:

While {alive player} do
{
     WaitUntil {!IsNull (FindDisplay 106)};

     Hint "Map Dialog is open";

     WaitUntil {IsNull (FindDisplay 106)};

     Hint "Map Dialog is closed";
};

Edited January 21, 2012 by Das Attorney

[thebarricade 7]

Thanks!

I'll try that out.