[TEC] Adding Items in the Menu Editor Tutorial

[Zedi]

It's not sticky maybe because is another tutorial dealing with the same thing made by karamazovnew here

Anyway.. I agree, all TEC and tutorial should be sticky as every bit of info about moding is important.

[Obelix]

Originally Posted by Magnum

... by karamazovnew here

Hm! This thread was all the more necessary to make a sticky. Thank you for link.

[Captn Wilhelm]

This is great!! Thank you for the tutorials!

[Jace11]

Does anyone have the original files still?

Im trying to make my own TDC and running into syntax problems with the .py scripts. Im using notepad++ and checking and double checking but alas, I keep having problems with the script to call a basic TDC page on the attack periscope....

Any help would be appreciated. I've removed every space, checked tabs and it all looks fine in notepad++.

[gap]

Try dropping a message in Reaper7's PM box

[Jace11]

Tracked down in debugger to line15 column 1, looked at some other scripts and figured it out.

# Globals

ShowTDC = True

#Page attack periscope.py

from menu import *

def InitializeScript():
[TAB] Menu.PageActivated += Menu_PageActivated
[TAB] Menu.PageDeactivated += Menu_PageDeactivated
[TAB] Menu_PageActivated( Pageattackperiscope )

def StartGame():
[TAB] pass

def Menu_PageActivated( page ):
[TAB] if page == Pageattackperiscope:
[TAB] [TAB] global ShowTDC
[TAB] if ShowTDC:
[TAB] [TAB] from PageTDC import PageTDC
[TAB] [TAB] PageTDC.Visible = True

def Menu_PageDeactivated( page ):
[TAB] if page == Pageattackperiscope:
[TAB] [TAB] global ShowTDC
[TAB] if ShowTDC:
[TAB] [TAB] from PageTDC import PageTDC
[TAB] [TAB] PageTDC.Visible = False

def EndGame():
[TAB] pass

def UnloadScript():
[TAB] Menu.PageActivated -= Menu_PageActivated
[TAB] Menu.PageDeactivated -= Menu_PageDeactivated

should globals be double "tabbed"? it works now but then the TDC stays when I exit station

the indentations listed in the tutorial seem wrong to me...

[TheDarkWraith]

the python file layout controls flow of execution. If something is tabbed more or tabbed less than it should be the python execution engine will throw an error. Your example above would throw an error. If the global ___ is to be part of the function block then it needs to be tabbed the same as the function block.

If you've done any coding in C++ or C# think of the tabs as {}s. Think of the : as function header

C#:

private void myfunction(int a, float b)
{
a = Convert.ToInt32(b);
}

In python:

def myfunction(a, b):
[TAB]a = Convert.ToInt32(b)