new menu via .menu files

[motorsep]

How can I create simple menu (some what like Quake menu, but with ability to use mouse at the same time as keys) using menu.dat and .menu files?
I looked into Nexuiz .menu files, but to me it looks like a mess :/
I don't even know what .menu file I have to create first and so on
Is anyone familiar with .menu files ?

[Sajt]

Nexuiz's menu QC contains the .menu parser.

A simple menu QC implementation would not include the .menu files, it would all be done in the QC.

But I'm not the one to do it...

[jim]

How complicated is doing a new menu with just QC? Does it go to that same category as making new huds with CSQC?

[Spike]

Supposedly you could do a fairly simple menu like quake has.
Seperate draw/keyboard functions, respond to just up/down/enter. Simple, and easy.
But then you don't have any mouse support.

Certainly the menu.dat nexuiz has is overkill, but it does actually do quite a lot of stuff. Of course, its utterly unreadable. :)

[Urre]

[Error]

[daemon]

[mh]

I'd personally vote against mouse support in menus.

GLQuake (and presumably WinQuake also) release the mouse back to the OS when the menus or console are activated, and this is a Good Thing to have, IMO.

Mouse support on the other hand is nice to have alright, but is it really necessary?

[Urre]

mh: if you're making a game, rather than a mod, using a based-on Quake engine, which has little to do with Quake, you might want to. Keyboard only menus are rather '97

[kable]

mh: Releasing/Ungrabbing mouse doen't disable mouse events. Ad the only change needed in the menu is using absolute mouse position instead of relatives.