[RESOLVED][RPGXP]Scene_Title modification

[Sbus]

Hi  
I'm trying to modify the title screen to add the "Credits" option.
I successfully added the "Credits" option to the menu, then I created the method "command_credits" inside Scene_Title.

  def command_credits
    $scene = Scene_Credits.new
  end

then I wrote this for the scene:

class Scene_Credits
  def main
    @window = Window_Credits.new
    Graphics.transition
    loop do
      Graphics.update
      Input.update
      update
      if $scene != self
        break
     end
    end
    Graphics.freeze
    @window.dispose
  end
  def update
    @window.update
  end
end

then this for the window:

class Window_Credits < Window_Base
  def initialize
    super(0, 0, 640, 480)
    self.contents = Bitmap.new(width - 32, height - 32)
    refresh
  end
  def refresh
   self.contents.clear
   self.contents.font.color = normal_color
   self.contents.font.size = 20
   self.contents.draw_text(150, 150, text_width, 32, "CREDITS")
  end
end

I have two problems:
1-What should I put in text_width?
2-If I put a random nuber in text_width the game gives me the message screen without text.

[ForeverZer0]

text_width = self.contents.text_size('STRING TO MEASURE').width

Or is you want simple, just replace text_width width:

self.contents.width

[Sbus]

It changes nothing...
Regardless of what i put into text_width, the message's window stays blank.

[diagostimo]

in your update method of the scene:

def update
    @window.update
  end

@window = Window_Credits.new, so when you put @window.update you are calling a method called update within that class, but as i see in your window class you dont have a method called update but you do have one called refresh, change that line to @window.refresh and see if that solves your problem

[ForeverZer0]

That's not the problem. "refresh" is called at the end of the initialization method. "update" can still be called, its merely calling the super's update method since Window_Credits does not override it.

The code you have should be working, are you changing the font?
Also, it may be a stupid question, but is your problem the scene does not change, or that you get a blank window with no text written in it? I'm not sure where you got the "text_width" idea, but many most times you don't need a dynamic measurement of text, you can simply hard-code numbers in there.

def refresh
  self.contents.clear
  self.contents.draw_text(0, 0, self.contents.width, 32, "Credits", 1)
end

[Sbus]

The problem is that i get the new scene, but with no text in it.

[diagostimo]

@foreverzer0 ah yes i never really considered it using the method from the parent class, so if i was to override it would it void the old method complety or would it act like an extension?

@sbus i coppied your code into a fresh project and everything was fine with it, you must be doing something else to the scene that we are unaware off

[ForeverZer0]

@diagostimo:
The old method is used implicitly since the child class does not contain a method for it. The initialize method does override it, but as you can see it uses the "super" call so that the parent class method is still being called.

@sbus:
As diagostimo said, there is something else wrong with your code that is not in what you have posted. I asked about the font earlier, because it will have the effect of not displaying text if you change the font to something that is not installed on the OS.

[Sbus]

Everything i changed or added is there.
I haven't changed the font, so I don't think that's the problem.
I tried it in a new blank project, and it doesn't work either.
BTW I'm trying in another computer to see if it's the OS or something the problem.

[ForeverZer0]

I doubt that its Windows.

I just made this test real quick, which is essentially the same thing you made. It works fine. See if you have the same problem.
Simply call "$scene = Scene_Credits.new" with a script call.

class Window_Credits < Window_Base
  
  def initialize
    super(0, 0, 640, 480)
    self.contents = Bitmap.new(width - 32, height - 32)
    refresh
  end
  
  def refresh
    self.contents.clear
    self.contents.font.color = normal_color
    self.contents.draw_text(0, 0, 640, 32, 'Credits', 1)
  end
  
  def update
    super
    
  end
end

class Scene_Credits
  
  def main
    @window = Window_Credits.new
    Graphics.transition
    loop { Graphics.update; Input.update; update; break if $scene != self }
    Graphics.freeze
    @window.dispose
  end
  
  def update
    @window.update
  end
end

[Sbus]

It works.
Lol, I don't know why, but it works.
Thanks a lot. 

[ForeverZer0]

That's very strange. I honestly am not seeing a difference in what I wrote and what you posted other than you set the set the test coordinates, and I simply used the "center alignment" flag.

[diagostimo]

more on the lines of what i meant is if i create a new update method in the child class would it still contain the contents of the parent class's update method aswell as the new content defined, or would i have to allias it? or even repacliate the parent class's content, just so i know for future reference

[ForeverZer0]

If you don't call "super" within the method, you completely override it. If you do call super, it is the equivalent of an alias, although it is not quite the same thing.