Medal Popup.

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Aug 19 2009, 7:48 am (Edited on Aug 19 2009, 7:54 am)
If you've played Resident Evil by Ruben7, you should notice that when you unlock a medal that it pops up on your screen.

Any help on how to do this?

Oh and I don't mean just a text message, I mean the image of the medal.
Aug 19 2009, 7:57 am (Edited on Aug 19 2009, 8:33 am)
Mickemoose wrote:
If you've played Resident Evil by Ruben7, you should notice that when you unlock a medal that it pops up on your screen.

Any help on how to do this?

I haven't played his game, but I can think of a few ways. The simplest is to create a special window in the skin called "medalpopup", put a label control in it for the image and another one for the text, and then fill that in when the medal is earned.

if(world.SetMedal(player, medalname))
  var/popup = "medalpopup_[ckey(medalname)]"
  winclone(player, "medalpopup", popup)
  winset(player, "medalpopup", "title=[url_encode(medalname)]")
  player << output(medalicons[medalname], "[popup].medalimage")
  player << output(medaldesc[medalname], "[popup].medaldesc")
  winshow(player, popup)


I used a cloned window instead of reusing the same window because if you earn multiple medals it's nice to see both.

Lummox JR
Aug 19 2009, 8:29 am
In response to Lummox JR
Alright, So I just have to put all my medals into the project. But what does urlencode do there? It just comes up as an undefined proc.
Aug 19 2009, 8:34 am
In response to Mickemoose
Mickemoose wrote:
Alright, So I just have to put all my medals into the project. But what does urlencode do there? It just comes up as an undefined proc.

Whoops--my error. I meant that to be url_encode(). What it's doing in there is converting the name of the medal to a form that's safe to use in a parameter string for winset(). Another option is to use list2params(list("title" = medalname)) instead of "title=[url_encode(medalname)]".

Lummox JR
Aug 19 2009, 8:41 am
In response to Lummox JR
Oh alright, thanks for the help.