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[Sprocket809]

How would I go about organising the workshop menus so that not everything is in the same menu? For example, in the menu for the craftsdwarf's workshop you can choose which material you want crafted, which opens a sub-menu. Is there any way of replicating this?

[scamtank]

Nope, not yet.

[Sprocket809]

Damn. It seems I'll have to cut down the number of options available or just say that for now people should use the manager menu...

[Dirst]

When I saw the topic, I thought you meant the building menu to select workshops.  A way of defining a submenu there would be really helpful... but I suspect that that, too, is not yet possible.

[TheDorf]

Are you guys sure about this? I think I saw a screenshot of what I believe was MDF where they had a custom menu of some sort.

[Dirst]

Are you guys sure about this? I think I saw a screenshot of what I believe was MDF where they had a custom menu of some sort.

I would love to be wrong about either type of custom menu... but I think what you saw with Masterwork was changing the game's hardcoded strings (using a "localization" patch) rather than changing the structure of the menu.

[TheDorf]

Are you guys sure about this? I think I saw a screenshot of what I believe was MDF where they had a custom menu of some sort.

I would love to be wrong about either type of custom menu... but I think what you saw with Masterwork was changing the game's hardcoded strings (using a "localization" patch) rather than changing the structure of the menu.

I found the screenshots I was talking about.

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Note that the image is not mine in any way. It's a screenshot from the genesis reborn thread.

I believe the screens are from AdvFort - but atleast custom menus seem to be possible.

[scamtank]

DFHack's add-on GUI bits are certainly a marvel, but having to know big boy programming languages and the secrets of DFHack really put them out of the everyman's reach.

Even then, I don't think you could outright inject new sub-categories into the original menus.

[TheDorf]

DFHack's add-on GUI bits are certainly a marvel, but having to know big boy programming languages and the secrets of DFHack really put them out of the everyman's reach.

Even then, I don't think you could outright inject new sub-categories into the original menus.

But shouldn't it be possible to replace the original menus with custom ones, into which you can then add the original stuff that you want, leave out the stuff you don't want, and then finally add anything custom?

Edit: But you're probably right that it's not an easy thing to do.

[scamtank]

Practical concerns aside, you'd have to switch to the fancy new menu manually with a keybind every goddamn time you wanted to build something AND trust every end user to figure it out and put up with it.

If you can't do your complete replacement seamlessly, it's not complete or even a replacement, it's just some extra shit shoddily tacked on top. I do have a pretty strict view on this sort of thing.

[Dirst]

You're both right: it does seem to support a custom menu structure... and it's not a drop-in replacement for the in-game menus.

Depending on what the data structure looks like for one of those menus, it wouldn't hurt to include your own menus in an onLoad.init file in your mod.  Just don't depend on the end-user using it.