[TI-BASIC] Cool Menu

pacotens · Post by **pacotens** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 7:14 pm

How can you make cool in game menu's in basic?
Could you help me with a code or some tips or tricks?

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 8:01 pm

Menu("Title","item1",label,"item2",label2....

better yet

Menu(sub(Str0,x,16),sub(Str0,x+16,14)....

but if you feel like doing it the hard way..
http://www.freewebs.com/lawcompany/KEYMAP.8xp

i wrote it when i was a bit bored, looks cool though, feel free to use it in any of your games

screeny

as you can see it supports jumping to the end, inversing the part it is at, things like that..
sometimes it thinks up/graph is 7 (that's in xLIB tr1p..) but the keys are just to show what it could do
i could have done something similar with a variable menu, but doing it yourself is much cooler

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 11:23 pm

That's a cool one.
I used to have a really cool menu on one of my games, but it got lost somehow.
Oh, and I'm too lazy to rewrite it.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 11:42 pm

The one in acelgoyobis was amazing, but that was asm. What project are you working on that you need this for?

pacotens · Post by **pacotens** » Fri 08 Sep, 2006 5:41 pm

i'm trying to make a stupid game

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Fri 08 Sep, 2006 7:29 pm

a BASIC text based game? no RTS or RPG or anything?
then just Menu(args would be the best bet i think

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Fri 08 Sep, 2006 8:22 pm

...or you could leave out the menu entirely. And the rest of the program code. That was the first program I ever wrote for the calculator. I still make it from time to time just to make sure my coding skills having gotten rusty.

anykey · Post by **anykey** » Sun 10 Sep, 2006 3:13 pm

hahaha!
I'd say that it's worth it to make your own menu. When you make a screenshot of your program and put it on ticalc or whereever, using menu( looks bad.

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Sun 10 Sep, 2006 8:17 pm

Although, unless the menu ist an integral part of the program, it may not be worth the extra memory to create your own menu.

gangsta · Post by **gangsta** » Mon 11 Sep, 2006 12:26 am

mod, edit topic name for [TI-BASIC] tag plz.

do u want graphical or not?

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Mon 11 Sep, 2006 8:04 pm

did anyone notive that my nice looking menu is actually in BASIC with the help on xLIB's text-inverse? (although i have my own INVERSE program, im just lazy i guess)