Difference between revisions of "Talk:MessageBox Tutorial"

I suspect that if there had been a simplified version of how to set up multiple menus using the MessageBox function in a Magic Effect script that Raziel23x probably wouldn't have had to ask for help with it. I even had trouble looking through the scripts trying to seperate out what wasn't necessary and apply it to a spell script - the real problem ended up being an active return statement (If Choice == -1 ==> Return). To this end, I think that a Multi-Menu tutorial using MessageBox is probably something that would be useful with a demonstration of how to do it in different ways, i.e. Activators, Spells, etc. so that if someone needs help figuring out how to do it, they don't have to come to a tutorial that isn't set up for it just because its the closest thing that will help them. If you look at what Raziel23x was doing, it was either use a multiple menu or else write 20+ seperate spells. I personally would have done the same thing Raziel23x originally did; made multiple menus in a single spell. I did something similar with the ''Alter Weather'' spell that I made a while ago in that I allowed the caster to choose the weather type from a menu when the spell is cast rather than writing 7 seperate spells for each weather type in Tamriel. I didn't feel that the seperate weather types warranted 7 seperate spells when one spell could do all of them (it also cuts down on clutter in the spell list). The difference being that mine didn't need multiple menus for the spell where as Raziel23x's script did. ''This'' is where a menu in a spell serves better than an activator - because you don't need to drag the activator out and deal with it and then put it away again when just casting a simple spell. You just handle the choice and the consequences internally in the spell.

I suspect that if there had been a simplified version of how to set up multiple menus using the MessageBox function in a Magic Effect script that Raziel23x probably wouldn't have had to ask for help with it. I even had trouble looking through the scripts trying to seperate out what wasn't necessary and apply it to a spell script - the real problem ended up being an active return statement (If Choice == -1 ==> Return). To this end, I think that a Multi-Menu tutorial using MessageBox is probably something that would be useful with a demonstration of how to do it in different ways, i.e. Activators, Spells, etc. so that if someone needs help figuring out how to do it, they don't have to come to a tutorial that isn't set up for it just because its the closest thing that will help them. If you look at what Raziel23x was doing, it was either use a multiple menu or else write 20+ seperate spells. I personally would have done the same thing Raziel23x originally did; made multiple menus in a single spell. I did something similar with the ''Alter Weather'' spell that I made a while ago in that I allowed the caster to choose the weather type from a menu when the spell is cast rather than writing 7 seperate spells for each weather type in Tamriel. I didn't feel that the seperate weather types warranted 7 seperate spells when one spell could do all of them (it also cuts down on clutter in the spell list). The difference being that mine didn't need multiple menus for the spell where as Raziel23x's script did. ''This'' is where a menu in a spell serves better than an activator - because you don't need to drag the activator out and deal with it and then put it away again when just casting a simple spell. You just handle the choice and the consequences internally in the spell.

--[[User:ShadowDancer|ShadowDancer]] 23:51, 27 August 2007 (EDT)

--[[User:ShadowDancer|ShadowDancer]] 23:51, 27 August 2007 (EDT)