A really stupid scripting question..

[Tomo2000 60]

Okay, so, I've been trying to get a window to display the currently equipped weapon icon. I managed to get it to show me the one from the database, but not when it changes, and I can't seem to get around it. Currently the code looks like this;

 

@weapon = $data_weapons[$game_party.actors[0].weapon_id].icon_name
bitmap1 = RPG::Cache.icon(@weapon)
rect1 = Rect.new(1, 1, 24, 24)
self.contents.blt(20, 20, bitmap1, rect1, 255)

 

And, note, I thought maybe changing it from $data to $game might fix it, but I got another error;

NoMethodError occurred. undefined method '[]' for nil:NilClass

 

I'm probably missing something really obvious.. Thanks in advance.

~Tomo2000.

Edited May 26, 2012 by Tomo2000

[Moonpearl 32]

We can't answer your question because, as your describe your problem, it's not a matter of what code you wrote (proof is, it works), but where you put it. Most probably you've put it in some refresh method, which is good, but you have to tell your scene to call this method in order to refresh the window's contents (the point to the refresh method is to be not called on each and every frame, in order to avoid slowdowns). Check if you call this method properly on the appropriate occasion.

 

Note: your Rect should be (0, 0, 24, 24), you'll miss the top row and leftmost column of the picture otherwise.

[Tomo2000 60]

Pretty much, it was for a custom menu I just decided to write one night. It's for a window in which displays the actors battler, details, etc.. The window is initiated when the menu first starts up (when escape is pressed), and all the dispose and update lines are in there, so I believe it was called correctly. I tried putting the line into the initialize section of the code, but to no avail (I didn't think it would, but, just in case, since Ruby sometimes likes stuffing around xD ). Anywhere outside of that and, to the extent of my knowledge, it wouldn't recognise the variable. Is there any more help you could provide? Thanks in advance.

Edited May 27, 2012 by Tomo2000

[ForeverZer0 44]

It needs placed in the refresh method.

It is convention that a refresh method clears the bitmap and redraws it, so whatever you do in the initialize method, which only gets called once, will be deleted the nanosecond the window contents is drawn.