[SBARINFO?] Drawing a meter for an inventory item

[Grimm]

Hey folks,

I feel like kind of a jackass asking this complicated question, but it's been blocking my progress for awhile, so I need to get it resolved. So, I need a little meter of sorts to be placed onscreen, preferably in the HUD area, while a certain weapon is out, but not while a different one is selected. So let's just make pretend that I want this blue meter to pop up when you have the plasma gun out, which will display the amount of a certain dummy inventory item attached to the operation of the gun. And let's also say I want a little green meter to pop up when you have a rifle out. But then nothing for the other guns. How might I do this?

[Blzut3]

Assuming the use of the svn versions of ZDoom you can use the IsSelected command to detect the weapon. DrawBar should accept any inventory item as the number.

[Grimm]

I'm not quite looking for a number output though, I want an actual graphical meter to display.

[Blzut3]

Since when was drawbar a numeric output?

[Grimm]

If I knew the answer to that, I probably wouldn't have posted a thread about it.