[REL] SH4 Menumaker ....

[Spazza]

Originally Posted by Paajtor

...and nobody got my joke?:hmm:
I suddenly feel lonely, standing on top of the world.

Awesome tool btw, jimi...gonna try it as soon as I have more time to spare.

Just looked at it.............I get it......:rotfl:

Thanks Jimi for a great tool...........

[wetwarev7]

Immpressive. Downloading now!

[WhiskeyBravo]

A well deserved bump for a fantastically useful utility mod.

Well done and thanks jimimadrid.

WB.

[JoeCorrado]

Downloaded this wonderful little tool yesterday and have used it to customize the menu buttons to my liking. The application is well designed, intuitive and very easy to use. Within just a few minutes I had made my modifications and loaded them to the game without a hitch.

Higher resolution users have the ability to impliment all 15 buttons, lower resolutions look to be limited to just ten.

I recommend this tool to any who would like to tweak their menu items to their liking, it can't be beat!

Thanks for making this available to the community!

[Able72]

All I can say is WOW!!!!. This tool is awesome. Two

Now I don't have to worry about trying to track down that "Green Light" mod or the one that adds the "All Hands to battle stations" button to all the tabs etc.

This is incredible.

Hmm....Next step is a program that will let you rearragne all elements in the GUI to your own liking .

[Able72]

Suggestion for the next improvement:

Being able to move the tabs to rearrange the order of them would be great.

Figured out how to do that with the buttons using the delete and insert. Something similar with the tabs would be great as well.

Again, awesome tool. Absolutely love the ease of use and intuative nature of the whole thing.

[jimimadrid]

Nice to see that the user begin to understand my targets.

My dream is to let the user design as easy as possible their own personally SH4 Interface.
I like the idea that everybody can setup a lot of parameter without knowing too much of modding.

JTxE has been the first tool, by let the user switch on or off parts of the menu1024..ini to mix different Mods.(Like JSGME do)

SH4 Menumaker is the beginning of a part of graphical tools for an easy and unproblematically changing of config settings.

A keymaker will follow, and also a a program to rearrange the gui interfaces. (here i need a lot of study about the zones)

But all in time - at the moment i need a little distance from modding.
I bought Sh4 as one of the first here in Germany - and until today i have only finished two patrols. V1.5 i knew only from testing Mods.


Enjoy the Menumaker - and, for all user, who think SH4Menumaker is a tool for modders - NO, this tool is for you. Try it, and see how easy it can be to get your personilized Hud.

Regards
jimimadrid

PS - Sorry for my bad english.

[Able72]

I have, I love it. You da man Jimmy.

I look forward to seeing your other tools as well.

I guess I'll have to give JTxE a look see and see if its as easy to use.

[Paajtor]

Suppose I want to edit the existing 1.5 menu...is there a way, to load the default HUD into the Menumaker, so that I can see which tabs&buttons are present, and which are lacking/obsolete?

For me personally, the ideal situation would be, if I could load the default HUD-menu in this tool, and then start editing...while any new buttons or tabs I add, automaticallly get the right appearance (ie, the same appearance as the default menu), unless I tell them to look different.

Hope you understand my question?

[jimimadrid]

Originally Posted by Paajtor

is there a way, to load the default HUD into the Menumaker?
Hope you understand my question?

On the first start, the menumaker has inside the default v1.4 and default v1.5 settings.

Since Version 2.0 there is also a "load" function in the Menumaker. So you can drive to your desired folder and load in the desired config.

[Able72]

Anyway to move or eliminate some of the default tabs?

I was wanting to put a "Combat Map" tab next to the Navigation Map tab, and a "Attack Periscope" Tab next to an "Obersvation Periscope" tab. This would mean eliminating some of the default tabs from the menu and adding them back later, since I can't just change the order.

*edit* also, one thing I noticed. The tab for "Captains Abilities" is still there, but it loses its default Icon from what I could see.

[Paajtor]

K, thx jm.

Originally Posted by Able72

Anyway to move or eliminate some of the default tabs?

Left- or Right-clicking brings up menu's....copy, delete and paste are amongst them.
Check out the manual.

[Able72]

It does that with the buttons, but I tried that with the tabs, no joy.

And I did read the manual.

In using the program, its a right click to actually bring up that menu and it doesn't work with the tabs.

Have you actually used the program?

[jimimadrid]

@Able72,

sorry no delete, insert, copy and paste for the tabs. This will create a lot of trouble in getting well working routines.Too much attributes for each button has to been clipboarded and moved. I do not see too much needed for this, regarding the work it will cause. (if somebody will do the work i will send him the source code )

The easiest way is to add a new tab and move all the buttons from the left tab, then move from the previous left tab to the new empty, and so on.
This will work very easy and you get the same result.

Originally Posted by Able72

*edit* also, one thing I noticed. The tab for "Captains Abilities" is still there, but it loses its default Icon from what I could see.

Sorry i did not understand your request. My bad english.

[NiKuTa]

I have a problem lookl on the bottom.







And this is my CFG file: http://files.filefront.com/OrdersBar.../fileinfo.html