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AFADoomer wrote:Ah.

Damnit, you're right. Sorry.

So what is the difference between me adding a new Class there and replacing the old class for PlayerMenu with a class that inherits from PlayerMenu? Besides "the engine won't let you"? Shouldn't the inherited class have all of the same underlying code as the parent class? Is this actually something that should not be done, or a holdover from the old system where everything was in compiled code?

AFADoomer wrote:I edited after you posted... Maybe Graf can weigh in, then? I may do a feature request...

		for (int i = 0; i < mDesc.mItems.Size(); i++)
		{
			if (mDesc.mItems[i] is "ListMenuItemTextItem")
			{
				console.printf("%s",  ListMenuItemTextItem(mDesc.mItems[i]).mText);
			}
		}

Nash wrote:Can someone explain to me menu descriptors like I'm a 5 year old?

Despite being able to work with menus and produce somewhat usable widgets, I can't honestly say I truly understand the descriptor concept.

AFADoomer wrote:Each menu item is referenced in the menu descriptor's mItems array. You have to access the correct entry of that array, cast the item as the right type of control (ListMenuItemTextItem), and retrieve the mText value.

So something like this running in your list menu class's Init code should print the list menu text item values to the console every time the menu is opened:

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		for (int i = 0; i < mDesc.mItems.Size(); i++)
		{
			if (mDesc.mItems[i] is "ListMenuItemTextItem")
			{
				console.printf("%s",  ListMenuItemTextItem(mDesc.mItems[i]).mText);
			}
		}

If you want to select a specific item, you can experiment with the GetItem function - GetItem('OptionsMenu') should return the list item you use in your example (See the player menu for an example of this in action).

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I'm trying to get Z-Windows updated to conform with the latest versions of the engine; quite a bit has changed. First things first, I'd like to get the Z-Windows Options consolidated into their own menu within Options. Below is a snippet of the current MENUDEF, which is the old and now/always incorrect way of doing this, as far as I understand right now. So what is the correct way of making a submenu and adding it to the Options menu that will be forward compatible? Please assume I'm 6+ months behind everyone else in experience with ZScript and need my hand held a bit.

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OptionMenu "Mouse"
{
	Title "Mouse"

	Slider "Overall Sensitivity",			"mouse_sensitivity", 0.5, 2.5, 0.1
	Option "Prescale Mouse Movement",		"m_noprescale", "NoYes"
	Option "Smooth Mouse Movement",			"smooth_mouse", "YesNo"
	Slider "Turning Speed",				"m_yaw", 0, 2.5, 0.1
	Slider "Mouselook Speed",			"m_pitch", 0, 2.5, 0.1
	StaticText ""
	StaticText "- Z-Windows Options -", 1
	Slider "Interface Click Sensitivity",	"zmse_clicksense", 3, 10, 1, 0
	Slider "Interface Cursor Speed Modifier","zmse_speedmodify", 8, 66, 1, 0
	StaticText " - Lower modifier value for faster cursor", 1
}