[ZS] Status bar code in or referred to by a weapon class?

[Matt]

Here's what I want to do:

1. have a custom status bar/HUD.
2. have a base custom weapon.
3. have the custom status bar check which particular child class of that base custom weapon the player has.
4. upon finding that particular child weapon class, execute a piece of HUD (i.e., ui-scope) code specific to that class.
5. make this flexible so that anyone can create a new weapon class based on this base custom class and include their own status bar code.

I'm currently able to accomplish 1-4 using a long if/else that goes through every possible weapon, but there's no way for this to be expanded in a secondary mod without overwriting the entire custom status bar (with the additional mapinfo, etc. that ends up requiring).

Ideally I'd want to be able to do something like:

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let xxx=mycustomweapon(consoleplayer.readyweapon);
if(xxx) xxx.showhudstuff(self,consoleplayer.mo);

(in contrast to this cumbersome-looking thing) but that can't be done since weapon is play scope and there's no way to specify ui scope for just that one function.

Is there any way to set this up? Is there some kind of ui-scope "thinker"-like sort of deal that I'm supposed to be spawning or something?

[phantombeta]

Maybe a virtual function like this?

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    virtual ui void DrawHUDStuff (BaseStatusBar sbar) { }

Then, the user could simply draw to the statusbar like this:

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    override void DrawHUDStuff (BaseStatusBar sbar) {
        let fnt = HUDFont.Create ("BigFont");
        sbar.DrawString (fnt, "BUTTS", (0, 0), BaseStatusBar.DI_SCREEN_CENTER | BaseStatusBar.DI_ITEM_CENTER);
    }

You'd call the function in the statusbar code like this:

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        weap.DrawHUDStuff (self);

I haven't done any in-depth tests, but from a simple test with that code, it seems to work pretty nicely.

[Matt]

So that's where the "ui" is supposed to go, thanks!

Will give this a try.