Dialog Tutorial - Creating Dialogs

05-20-2006, 08:49 AM

This tutorial will explain the creation of a Dialog box. If you don't know what is a dialog box take a look at the first attached image.

First you need two variables. The first variable - we will call it dialog_difficulty is type Dialog. The Second, which we will call dialog_difficulty_buttons is a Dialog button type. You will see that it has the array option. As you saw on my image I had 8 buttons so my array is 8. So the array is based on the amount of buttons you have. Here on this example I have two buttons so I have an array of 2.

Dialog Box - Creating it
Now we need to create our Dialog trigger. The trigger will go like this:

Trigger:

Dialog

Events

Time - Elapsed game time is 1.00 seconds

Conditions

Actions

Dialog - Clear dialog_difficulty

Dialog - Change the title of dialog_difficulty to Difficulty

Dialog - Create a dialog button for dialog_difficulty labelled Easy

Set dialog_difficulty_buttons[1] = (Last created dialog Button)

Dialog - Create a dialog button for dialog_difficulty labelled Hard

Set dialog_difficulty_buttons[2] = (Last created dialog Button)

Dialog - Show dialog_difficulty for Player 1 (Red)

Now the next trigger will explain how to initiate an action when the button is clicked

Trigger:

Dialog 2

Events

Dialog - A dialog button is clicked for dialog_difficulty

Conditions

(Clicked dialog button) Equal to dialog_difficulty_buttons[1]

Actions

Game - Display to (All players) the text: Difficulty is easy.

Do the same for the next button. Please look at the images if you still don't understand.

Attached Images

	Dialog.JPG (112.3 KB)
	Var.JPG (16.7 KB)
	Dialog2.JPG (47.0 KB)
	Dialog3.JPG (39.3 KB)

05-20-2006, 09:31 AM	#2
Tim.	Please use [trigger] tags not [quote] tags.

05-20-2006, 10:49 AM	#3
bounty_hunter2	didn't know they exsist....editing so will it be excepted?

05-25-2006, 07:38 AM	#4
PitzerMike	I guess this could be approved as a tutorial for beginners, since we don't have a dialog tutorial yet. However you should mention that for your code example a button array with the size 2 is required, not 8. Also I think more appropriate variable names like dialog_difficulty or something like that should be used for a tutorial.

05-27-2006, 07:52 AM	#5
bounty_hunter2	ok I'l update it.

05-28-2006, 02:38 PM

Tim.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bounty_hunter2

ok I'l update it.

It has been a few days, are you actually going to update this or what?

06-01-2006, 03:02 PM	#7
bounty_hunter2	realy sorry. I was ILL. Update today. EDIT: Topic updated.

06-01-2006, 11:19 PM	#8
PitzerMike	Ok, looks good now. Moved to tutorials for beginners.

06-02-2006, 06:40 AM	#9
bounty_hunter2	great! Thanks

02-13-2009, 05:00 PM

#10

Alexis_Septimus

It is much better to set it this way, save much space.

Trigger:

Melee Initialization

Events

Dialog - A dialog button is clicked for dialog_difficulty

Conditions

Actions

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

(Clicked dialog button) Equal to dialog_difficulty_button[1]

Then - Actions

Game - Display to (All players) the text: Difficult is easy.

Else - Actions

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

(Clicked dialog button) Equal to dialog_difficulty_button[2]

Then - Actions

Game - Display to (All players) the text: Difficult is easy.

Else - Actions

05-04-2010, 01:15 PM	#11
canon shooter	really?it seems to be hurting my head.

05-04-2010, 01:18 PM	#12
canon shooter	also cool photos but the first one has an action called log entrys.how the hell are you supposed to write entrys?????