Hi, im new on mud games, my first and only mud playing now is Discworld.
I starting to read information to create a UI in Mudlet, but i dont know how to start.
My idea is create a UI only in text, showing in diferent miniwindows (Using Simple Windows Manager) this information:
Miniwindows 1: HP, XP, and others
Miniwindows 2: Wheater and date
Miniwindows 3: Inventory
Miniwindows 4: Score (Char stats)
Miniwindows 5: Navigation buttons (Obvious exits)
Miniwindows 6: Map
Example: For Navigation buttons, my idea is to take the "Obvious exits" (i dont now how) and show in a miniwindow the correspondent buttons (text hyperlinks) for this exits.
Discworld main screen: "There are three obvious exits: north, east and south."
Miniwindows: north - east - south (text hyperlinks to click)
The purpose of this for now is experiment with creating UI.
My knowledge about mud, scripting and this stuff is little, please only need information about how to start and what to learn first.
Sorry about my english!
Question about create miniwindows or boxes
Re: Question about create miniwindows or boxes
Start slowly.
Loads of options exist on these forums.
Start with a simple part and work your way up.
Demonnic has a great tabbed chat option. YATCO
Akaya has a GUI build that's simple and effective.
Greg did a great collection of styled Gauge bars.
Geyser and Vyzor both work well as well.
Check out other peoples builds on Whats Your Gui Look like?
See what you like then jump in, one step at a time. Start by scanning the forums, read the code, its easy to understand mostly.
If you just want 5 mini consoles (and the map) the manual has all you need.
The map can be more involved if you have to write a script so leave that to the last, but lots of scripts are there to help with that as well
Loads of options exist on these forums.
Start with a simple part and work your way up.
Demonnic has a great tabbed chat option. YATCO
Akaya has a GUI build that's simple and effective.
Greg did a great collection of styled Gauge bars.
Geyser and Vyzor both work well as well.
Check out other peoples builds on Whats Your Gui Look like?
See what you like then jump in, one step at a time. Start by scanning the forums, read the code, its easy to understand mostly.
If you just want 5 mini consoles (and the map) the manual has all you need.
The map can be more involved if you have to write a script so leave that to the last, but lots of scripts are there to help with that as well
Re: Question about create miniwindows or boxes
I have been AWOL for a bit, but as the person that made the Simple Window Manager, I can likely lend a hand if you are still looking for help with this. Creating the windows should be relatively simple, as should adding in most of the info, assuming it can be readily captured with triggers. Mapping can be complicated, though, as Silvine mentioned, unless you are capturing a map from the game.