Remove actions from a menu

[SouthSaturnDelta 1]

Hit a snag guys, wonderered if anyone has a way of getting around it.

I have a load of scripts that run ( badly ) from the player's menu using the AddAction line.

This is sound and the action is removed with the Remover Action line.

However, I have multiple user actions grouped into the menu, so if I remove an action for a set period ( until the script is ready again ) the only way I have found to replace it puts it onto the main user menu.

I.E.

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Reload M16

Salute

Make a sandwich ... (open this and another menu appears)

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                       ... Make a cheese sandwich

                       ... Make an egg sandwich

                       ... Make a Ham sandwich

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Now say I make a particular sandwich, I remove this action for 1 minute ( while I no doubt search for beer as well ) and replace it using addaction , but it reapears onto the main menu ~

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Reload M16

Salute

Make a sandwich ...

... Make a Ham sandwich

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Is there a way to replace this rogue action back into its original place with the other sandwich actions ?

I do add a hint informing the user to wait until prompted to use the option again, but as its there Its always going to be assumed that its 'ready'.

How can I work around this problem ?

Cheers,

SSD

[hardrock 1]

Well, I don't see why that is a problem for you.

It should be like that, no?

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">ActionSandwich = player addAction ["+ Make a sandwich", "draw_sandwich_actions.sqs"]

draw_sandwich_actions.sqs

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">player removeAction ActionSandwich

ActionSandwich = player addAction ["- Make a sandwich", "remove_sandwich_actions.sqs"]

ActionCheeseSandwich = player addAction [" ... cheese", "cheese_sandwich.sqs"]

ActionHamSandwich = player addAction [" ... ham", "ham_sandwich.sqs"]

cheese_sandwich.sqs, ham_sandwich.sqs

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">[] exec "remove_sandwich_actions.sqs"

; further code

remove_sandwich_actions.sqs

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">{player removeAction _x} forEach [ActionSandwich, ActionCheeseSandwich, ActionHamSandwich]

ActionSandwich = player addAction ["+ Make a sandwich", "draw_sandwich_actions.sqs"]

That works for the player only, but I guess that's all what you need, not?

[SouthSaturnDelta 1]

Hi again, and thanks for your reply Hardrock.

 I forgot to mention that I have multiple menu's like Unified Artillery has.Here you see the Main options menu.

Reload M16

Salute

Make a sandwich

Make a drink

Make some Hot food

Now here are the sub menu's that appear when each is pressed :-

Make a sandwich ... (open this and another menu appears containing the options below....)

                      ... Make a cheese sandwich

                      ... Make an egg sandwich

                      ... Make a Ham sandwich

... Back

Make a Drink ... (open this and another menu appears containing the options below...)

                      ...Make a cup of tea

                      ...make a cup of coffee

                      ...open a bottle of lemonade

... Back

Make some hot food ... (open this and another menu appears containing the options below...)

                      ...Make a Pizza

                      ...make Hamburger

                      ...Cook some chips

... Back

Now you see there are 3 distinct sub menu's I added ~ The sandwich, the drink and the hot food.Each when pressed opens its own options menu containing various actions.

If I remove and replace these user actions, they will only reappear on the main options menu so i end up with for example ~

( If I remove for 1 min and then replace the Ham sandwich action...)

Reload M16

Salute

Make a sandwich

Make a drink

Make some Hot food

Make a Ham sandwich ....*

...*( this is out of its sub menu and I need it to be replaced within the 'Make a sandwich' menu again)

I'm not sure if this is possible, but would be of great help to me to keep each menu option usable at all times.

Cheers,

SSD

[hardrock 1]

Well, it just would be an extension of the above. You just always have to add the actions in the reverse order.

Some init

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">drinkMenuOpen = false

sandwichMenuOpen = false

drawMenu = loadFile "drawMenu.sqf"

call drawMenu

drawMenu.sqf

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">{player removeAction _x} forEach [actionDrink, actionDrinkTea, actionDrinkCoffee, actionSandwich, actionSandwichHam, actionSandwichCheese];

if (drinkMenuOpen) then

{

actionDrinkCoffee = player addAction [" ... coffee", "drink_coffee.sqs"];

actionDrinkTea = player addAction [" ... tea", "drink_tea.sqs"];

actionDrink = player addAction ["- Make drink", "drink_menu_close.sqs"];

}

else

{

actionDrink = player addAction ["+ Make drink", "drink_menu_open.sqs"];

}

if (sandwichMenuOpen) then

{

actionSandwichCheese = player addAction [" ... cheese", "sandwich_cheese.sqs"];

actionSandwichHam = player addAction [" ... ham", "sandwich_ham.sqs"];

actionSandwich = player addAction ["- Make sandwich", "sandwich_menu_close.sqs"];

}

else

{

actionSandwich = player addAction ["+ Make sandwich", "sandwich_menu_open.sqs"];

}

drink_coffee.sqs, drink_tea.sqs, drink_menu_close.sqs

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">drinkMenuOpen = false

call drawMenu

; additional code

drink_menu_open.sqs

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">drinkMenuOpen = true

call drawMenu

and the same for the sandwich scripts.

[SouthSaturnDelta 1]

Good man Hardrock, I'll have a go at this and let you know how it goes mate.

Should be interesting.

Thanks,

SSD