[Scripting Question] Create sprites (in script)

[Marin]

I know most things about Ruby, but since Ruby is for text, sprites and things like that are what I'm struggling with.
I was trying to create a new Pause menu, built off of this script: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=344875
I started off trying to create the sprites this way for the menu (Above Main):

class PokemonMenu_Scene
  def pbStartScene
    @MenuScene=1
    pbSetViableDexes
    @viewport=Viewport.new(0,0,Graphics.width,Graphics.height)
    @viewport.z=99999
    
    @sprites={}
    @sprites["slots"]=IconSprite.new(0,0,@viewport)
    @sprites["slots"].setBitmap("Graphics/Pictures/CustomMenu/slots")

    @sprites["panel1full"]=IconSprite.new(0,0,@viewport)
    @sprites["panel1full"].setBitmap("Graphics/Pictures/CustomMenu/panel1full")
  end
end

Is there anything already wrong here? This is giving me the following error:

Exception: NoMethodError

Message: undefined method `viewport=' for nil:NilClass

PScreen_PauseMenu:5:in `pbShowCommands'
PScreen_PauseMenu:145:in `pbStartPokemonMenu'
PScreen_PauseMenu:144:in `loop'
PScreen_PauseMenu:270:in `pbStartPokemonMenu'
Scene_Map:192:in `call_menu'
Autosave:131:in `update'
Scene_Map:67:in `main'
Scene_Map:64:in `loop'
Scene_Map:71:in `main'
Main:49:in `mainFunctionDebug'

The main question I'm having is this: How can I easily add a sprite which I can toggle visible=true or false? I'm trying to create a custom pause menu, but it's turning out to be incredibly difficult with all these errors. If someone who knows their code well, please hook me up or post below.

 

[mej71]

That error you posted is not occuring within the code you posted. It's occuring within a method called pbShowCommands in the section PScreen_PauseMenu. Likely saying something along the lines of

something.viewport=somethingelse

Likely because the something hasn't been initialized to a class that has a viewport