Moving the Help Window
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- Original title: Moving the Help Window
- Original author: Paulionassus
- Original date: May 5, 2016
- Source thread: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/threads/moving-the-help-window.61426/
- Source forum path: Game Development Engines > RPG Maker Javascript Plugins > Learning Javascript
Summary
EDIT - Sorted it. I foolishly had the X and Y co-ords backwards in the window call. Oops lol Hi, I need a little help. I working on rearranging my menus and I am stuck on my Item Menu. I have attached an image of what I have so far. I want the help window to appear at the bottom of the screen under the item list window but I am having a hard time doing this. I have tried a few things and found that this._helpWindow.x does not work...
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Hi,
I need a little help. I working on rearranging my menus and I am stuck on my Item Menu. I have attached an image of what I have so far. I want the help window to appear at the bottom of the screen under the item list window but I am having a hard time doing this. I have tried a few things and found that this._helpWindow.x does not work as the x and y seem to be hard coded in the Window_Help section. So I have copied the Window_Help and renamed to Window_Help_Item and called this from createHelpWindow function I have written for Scene_Item but still no help window shows when I go in to the Item menu. I have checked the code flows by using the console.log and they appear in the console window.
Any help you guys could share would be grateful thanks.
console.log("createHelpWindow has been called");
this._helpWindow = new Window_Help_Item();
this.addWindow(this._helpWindow);
};
function Window_Help_Item() {
this.initialize.apply(this, arguments);
}
Window_Help_Item.prototype = Object.create(Window_Base.prototype);
Window_Help_Item.prototype.constructor = Window_Help_Item;
Window_Help_Item.prototype.initialize = function() {
console.log("Window_Help_Item has been called");
var width = Graphics.boxWidth;
var height = this.fittingHeight(2);
Window_Base.prototype.initialize.call(this, Graphics.boxHeight - height, 0, width, height);
this._text = '';
};
Window_Help_Item.prototype.setText = function(text) {
if (this._text !== text) {
this._text = text;
this.refresh();
}
};
Window_Help_Item.prototype.clear = function() {
this.setText('');
};
Window_Help_Item.prototype.setItem = function(item) {
this.setText(item ? item.description : '');
};
Window_Help_Item.prototype.refresh = function() {
this.contents.clear();
this.drawTextEx(this._text, this.textPadding(), 0);
};

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