choosing weapon

[Gomo]

I need a drop-down menu for choosing weapons in Tactical Console.
So far I tried various approaches, but none works.
I tried to set-up menu_array several times in various places.
I would post some code but basically nothing works so there is nothing to post.
How should I set it up?

[Mathias]

Use menu_things for this.

[Gomo]

I tried sth like this:

			 <portal 
			 id="wpnchsr2" 
			 style="menuNormal">
  <menu_things 
  field="grStkName" 
  component="Gear" 
  maxvisible="20"
  usepicksfield="adjUsePick" 
  candidatefield="opCandid">
    <candidate>!Equipment.Natural</candidate>
    </menu_things>
  </portal>

with such errors:

Template 'tacPick' - Reference to portal 'wpnchsr2' using a field for a different component set
Portal 'wpnchsr2' - Reference to incompatible field type/style/behavior based on portal type
Portal 'wpnchsr2' - A candidate tag expression and a field-based candidate reference are mutually exclusive

I tried also some variation of above but always get confused with incompatibility and component issues.

[Mathias]

Study the wiki page on how fields are defined - you need different settings to create a field that goes along with a menu_things than to create the field to go along with a menu_array.

[Gomo]

Well I read them in some part but I can understand only parts that I used.
Right now I have problem with figuring out which field is bad:
field="grStkName" or candidatefield="opCandid".
When I changed "grStkName" to "name" or "livename" I've got one error less.
I tried this:

			 <portal 
			 id="wpnchsr2" 
			 style="menuNormal">
  <menu_things 
  field="name" 
  component="Gear" 
  maxvisible="20"
  usepicks="hero" 
  >
    <candidate>Equipped.?</candidate>
    </menu_things>
  </portal>

With errors:

Portal 'wpnchsr2' - Reference to incompatible field type/style/behavior based on portal type

so with my understanding of this is that for some reason I cant use field with the name.

I also tried:
to use field from Actor component like this:

	      <field
      id="wpnChoice"
      name="Selection Tag Expression"
      type="derived"
      maxlength="1000">
      ]]></eval>   -->
      </field>

And the same one with new component in Component.core:

		 <component
    id="WpnChoice"
    name="Choose Equipped Items">
		      <field
      id="wpnChoice"
      name="Selection Tag Expression"
      type="derived"
      maxlength="1000">
      </field>   
	  
	    </component>

In other samples such field works so I don't know what's wrong.
I know there were used eval script to determine what to choose, but I have problems with that too.

[Mathias]

You don't want to re-use an existing field for this. You'll need to create a new field just for this.

[Gomo]

I just moved

 <field
      id="wpnChoice"
      name="Selection Tag Expression"
      type="derived"
      maxlength="1000">
	        </field>

into Gear component, still have got those errors.

[Mathias]

As I said - study what options you can assign to a field. The first thing you'll need to change is that this is a user-controlled menu - that means it can't be type="derived" - derived fields can only be changed by scripts, not by the user.

[Gomo]

Thanks.
I had to set style="menu" in the field also.