Scrolling dialog options

Started by aussie, Thu 29/11/2012 16:14:16

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aussie

Hi all,
I have a Monkey Island dialog GUI (you know, the black box with a list of options down the bottom of the screen). I need to list like 10 or 12 options, but I don't want to make the box any bigger so it doesn't interfere with the characters in screen. Two silly questions:

1. Can you have scrolling dialog options? (like in MI's insult swordfights)
2. If so, which is the easiest way?

I've run a couple of forum searches, but the search function seems a bit sluggish today. It's not giving me any results.

Thanks in advance.

BTW, I'm running version 3.2.1
It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.

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Ghost

#1
It's possible; you can create your own dialog GUI by using "Custom dialog options rendering"- enter that in the help search and you'll get a detailled description.

There is also a module. I can't find it right now but it was BetterDialogs/CustomDialogs, and I think it was made by abstauber.

StillInThe90s

There is a mod by abstauber called CustomDialogGui. It was made for 3.1.2 sp1 and seems to work fine with 3.2.1 after a few tweaks. -It's using one or two obsolete expressions.
Tiny issue: Dialog option scrolling will stop working if a dialog is run from a region (walks on, walks off, while standing on...).

aussie

Thanks a lot to both of you. I have come up with a workaround, but I will definitely look into those solutions. They look better than mine.
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