A few scripting questions

[ShadowFiendZX]

I've got a few questions about scripting, I'm not very comfortable with Ruby yet, so if there are simple answers, please forgive my ignorance.

First off, I made an item that can be used that has a few functions. When used, a text box pops up and you get a choice. After some searching, I got the text box to have my windowskin, but I also want the choice box to use the windowskin as well, how would I do this? As a sidenote, this is all done in a new script section that is separate from everything.

Here's how the dialogue is shown,

commands=[_INTL("Download information"),_INTL("View storage"),_INTL("Go online"),_INTL("View Daycare"),_INTL("Nothing")]

    choice=Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("\\w[iiddskin]What do you want to do?"),commands)

I want the whole thing to have the windowskin that's on the bottom of the screen. Obviously putting the \\w[iiddskin] in the command part did nothing.

My second question is, when I use "pbDownloadToString" it takes multiple tries to have a successful download, I'm not sure if it's the code or just my computer, although my friends also had the issue. Does anybody know of a way to fix this, or if it's just a given?

My third "question" is I decided I wanted the trainer card to have a back, so what I did was I made a new script section with a modified copy of the original trainer card script, the original trainer card script now has a bit of code that says:

  def pbTrainerCard
    loop do
      Graphics.update
      Input.update
      self.update
      if Input.trigger?(Input::C)
     scene=PokemonTrainerCardBackScene.new
           screen=PokemonTrainerCardBack.new(scene)
           pbFadeOutIn(99999) { 
              screen.pbStartScreen
             @scene.pbRefresh
           }

     
         elsif Input.trigger?(Input::B)
          pbEndScene
          break
          end
    end 
  end

and the trainer card back has a bit of code that says

if Input.trigger?(Input::C)

     
break
      elsif Input.trigger?(Input::B)
break
      end
    end 
  end

Basically, what I want to happen is, when you press C on the front, the back shows, when you press C or X on the back, it returns to the front, and when you press X on the front, it goes back to the pause menu. What actually happens is, The back shows fine, and goes back to the front fine, but pressing X while viewing the front of the card after viewing the back at least once will unpause the game, but leave the trainer card in the view, you can walk and interact, and text will overlay the trainer card, after spamming X for a few seconds, the trainer card disappears. Can somebody tell me how to fix that?

 

[Nickalooose]

For the trainer card thing, you must end the scene with one of 2, @scene.pbEndScene or just pbEndScene.

 

[ShadowFiendZX]

I did, for the X key anyway, if I do it for the C key part it reloads the front of the trainer card instead of showing the back. This is quite strange.

 

[Rakyu]

On the third question: I screwed around a little to see if I could get something like what you describe working which I managed. The code snippet you provided is almost correct. Just remove the call to @screen.pbRefresh and it should run as expected. (I've highlighted the line to remove below: )

 def pbTrainerCard
  loop do
    Graphics.update
    Input.update
    self.update
    if Input.trigger?(Input::C)
     scene=PokemonTrainerCardBackScene.new
     screen=PokemonTrainerCardBack.new(scene)
     pbFadeOutIn(99999) { 
       screen.pbStartScreen
       [COLOR="Red"][S]@scene.pbRefresh[/S][/COLOR]
     }
    elsif Input.trigger?(Input::B)
      pbEndScene
      break
    end
  end 
end

I suspect what was happening was the game was getting (silently) hung up on the call to a non-existent method and preventing the loop from running correctly.

I suppose I'll mention: it might be useful running the game with the $INTERNAL flag (and maybe the $DEBUG flag, too) set to true. The game will be less silent about these kinds of errors when it's on. (It'll also keep a log of errors under /Data/debuglog.txt which is always really handy.)

 

[ShadowFiendZX]

On the third question: I screwed around a little to see if I could get something like what you describe working which I managed. The code snippet you provided is almost correct. Just remove the call to @screen.pbRefresh and it should run as expected. (I've highlighted the line to remove below: )

 def pbTrainerCard
  loop do
    Graphics.update
    Input.update
    self.update
    if Input.trigger?(Input::C)
     scene=PokemonTrainerCardBackScene.new
     screen=PokemonTrainerCardBack.new(scene)
     pbFadeOutIn(99999) { 
       screen.pbStartScreen
       [COLOR="Red"][S]@scene.pbRefresh[/S][/COLOR]
     }
    elsif Input.trigger?(Input::B)
      pbEndScene
      break
    end
  end 
end

I suspect what was happening was the game was getting (silently) hung up on the call to a non-existent method and preventing the loop from running correctly.

I suppose I'll mention: it might be useful running the game with the $INTERNAL flag (and maybe the $DEBUG flag, too) set to true. The game will be less silent about these kinds of errors when it's on. (It'll also keep a log of errors under /Data/debuglog.txt which is always really handy.)

Oh my goodness! Thank you! It worked! I'll try that $internal flag, and continue to learn how to code in Ruby. Thanks for the help :)