TRIHAN'S "MAKE ME A SCRIPT" TOPIC!

Just a quick checkin to say I haven't died and I haven't forgotten about this, I just have limited free time right now. I'll try to get to the unfulfilled requests soon.

I wasn't around for a while but I have a bit more free time now so hopefully I'll be able to start taking requests again. What kind of custom menu were you and your friend looking for?

Yep!

Go to Window_MenuCommand and remove the following lines from make_command_list:
"add_main_comands"
"add_formation_command"

Then to go Scene_Menu and remove the following from the "start" method:
"create_gold_window"
"create_status_window"

Finally, in the "create_command_window" method, add the following lines underneath everything else:
"@command_window.x = (Graphics.width / 2) - (@command_window.width / 2)"
"@command_window.y = (Graphics.height / 2) - (@command_window.height / 2)"

If you want you can also remove those methods entirely and also delete the relevant handler settings in the create_command_window method of Scene_Menu, but that won't actually be necessary to make the thing work.

If you want to expand that to the actual options you listed (so rather than having an "end game" option that then gives you the "to title" and "exit" options you have the options in the menu), and an explicit "load" option from the menu rather than choosing continue at the title screen, let me know.

Like this?

...oh. Well!

STEP THE FIRST

Add a new line to the "self.make_save_header" method of DataManager, just above the line that just says "header":
header[:variable] = $game_variables[id of variable you want on the load screen]

STEP THE SECOND

Add a new method to Window_SaveFile called draw_variable:

def draw_variable(x, y, width, height)
header = DataManager.load_header(@file_index)
return unless header
draw_text(x, y, width, line_height, header[:variable], 2)
end

STEP THE THIRD

Then in the "refresh" method, add this line to the bottom:
draw_variable(0, contents.height - (line_height * 2), contents.width - 4, 2)

When the engine creates a save file header, it's really just storing a hashmap of the values (an array of key-value pairs where the key is a symbol, which is basically just a fancy variable beginning with a colon) that need to be available to the code for display in the load game scene.

To be honest, I just called the symbol for your thing :variable because that's what you wanted to store. I could just as easily have called it :kentona or :chocolatebar or :giraffe and it would have done exactly the same thing.

If you want to show a new value in the loading screen, you need to add it to the save file header so you can reference it later (you could reference the value directly, but this would show its actual value currently as opposed to the value it had when you saved the game), then add a method to Window_SaveFile that draws that value to the window wherever you want to show it, and add a call to that method in refresh.

Edit: I'll attempt to explain the header thing a bit better.

You know how arrays work: to access an array element you say the name of the array and the number of the element you want i.e. $game_variables[1] will return the first variable.

Hashmaps work with keys rather than values, but the idea is the same. If you set hashmapname[:symbol] to $game_variables[1] and then later on you have a draw_text call that uses hashmapname[:symbol] as the text to be drawn, it'll draw whatever value the variable was at when you added it to the hashmap. It's pretty much the same as an array only you can give your elements meaningful names.

Any time you see something in Ruby beginning with a colon it's a symbol. They're more complex than my explanation implies, but that's all you really need to know about them to effectively use them.