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[SBOVIS]

Hi, I want to deactivate the SAVE feature of WME in certain scenes.
Or at the start of a group of scenes that are connected.

I want it that the player just cannot click on the SAVE buttons but the menu does appear.


How can I do this??



Many thanks

[Mnemonic]

Well the most straighforward way would be to test the name of the current scene and disable the save button.
In the script of your menu window you'd do something like:

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var SaveButton = this.GetControl("save");
if(Scene.Name=="some_scene" || Scene.Name=="some_other_scene")
  SaveButton.Disabled = true;
 

Sure there would me more elegant ways, like adding a custom scene attribute for this, but I think this will do for your purposes.

[SBOVIS]

Hi,
     I have tried this both in the mainmenu and in the save menu but I cannot get it to work.

I am using the base mainmenu and save menu from the WME demo if that helps??

[Mnemonic]

If your save button is called "save", it should work (in mainmenu.script).

[SBOVIS]

Here is my Mainmenu.script, with the code in it.

But I can still save on scene WRATH001

#include "scripts\base.inc"
#include "scripts\keys.inc"

var SaveButton = this.GetControl("save");
if(Scene.Name=="scenes\wrath001.scene")
SaveButton.Disabled = true;

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
on "close"
{
Game.PlaySound("sounds\menuclose.ogg"); 
self.Close();
}


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
on "quit"
{
Game.PlaySound("sounds\menu button.wav"); 
var WinQuit = Game.LoadWindow("interface\system\quit.window");
  WinQuit.Center();
  WinQuit.GoSystemExclusive();

  if(WinQuit.xResult)
  {
    Game.QuitGame();
  }
  else Game.UnloadObject(WinQuit);
}


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
on "Keypress"
{
  var button;
  if(Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_ESCAPE){
    button = self.GetWidget("close");
    button.Press();
  }
}


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
on "load"
{
Game.PlaySound("sounds\menu button.wav");   
var WinLoad = Game.LoadWindow("interface\system\load.window");
  WinLoad.Center();
  WinLoad.GoSystemExclusive();
  Game.UnloadObject(WinLoad);
}


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


on "save"
{
Game.PlaySound("sounds\menu button.wav");
  var WinSave = Game.LoadWindow("interface\system\save.window");
  WinSave.Center();
  WinSave.GoSystemExclusive();
  if(WinSave.xResult==true)
  {
    self.Close();
    Game.UnloadObject(WinSave);
  }
  else
    Game.UnloadObject(WinSave);
}

[odnorf]

"scenes\wrath001.scene" is not the name of the scene but the filename.

So in your case I think the line should be

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if(Scene.Name=="wrath001")
You can find this name in wrath001.scene at parameter NAME="something"

[SBOVIS]

Oh right, ok................understand now.

Thanks

[SBOVIS]

This works fine now, But can I change the text on the button that is now Disabled?

I know its defined under the window of the mainmenu is there a command I can use to change the TEXT =" blah de blah" to TEXT ="something else"

[odnorf]

According to the excellent wme docs  buttons offer a Text attribute.

[SBOVIS]

OK, OK, got the answer now to this, thanks for the pointer