Adding key descriptions? Possible? Ideas?

[IrishMob]

Is there way to just add the key db name in the key description within the gear menu? so it will say black key then in the description be like itemblackkey3455 . then ppl could at least write down what the key belongs to? Any ideas on how this could be done?

[IrishMob]

Any ideas?

[Kind-Sir]

It could be possibly by manipulating the gear menu with a custom text dialog in the location of the gear's text dialog, then listening for an event of which item is selected, and then get the classname (ItemKeyColor###) to display in the location of the gear description.

The gear display number is 106, which could be used with any of the display commands following:
findDisplay, closeDisplay, createDisplay, displayAddEventHandler, displaySetEventHandler, displayRemoveEventHandler, displayCtrl

User Interface Event Handlers: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers

Some related topics:
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?130280-Gear-dialog
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?160231-Interaction-with-inventory-items

Some useful resources:
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Dialog_Control
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_ArmA2
http://resources.bisimulations.com/wiki/Dialog_Control

EDIT: I adjusted the below code to work with Arma 2, however, it acts funky in the editor for Arma 2. Have not tested this out any further than the editor.

handle = [] spawn {
    fnc_test = {
        _control = _this select 0;
        _selectedIndex = _this select 1;
        _data = format ["Data\n%1\n________\n",_control lbData _selectedIndex];
        _text = format ["Text\n%1\n________\n",_control lbText _selectedIndex];
        _value = format ["Value\n%1\n________\n",_control lbValue _selectedIndex];
        _pic = format ["Picture\n%1\n________\n",_control lbPicture _selectedIndex];
        hint format["Selected Uniform Index: %1,%2\n%3%4%5%6",_control,_selectedIndex,_data,_text,_value,_pic];
        //hint format["%1\n%2",_this select 0, _this select 1];
    };
    while {true} do {
        waituntil {!(isnull (finddisplay 106))};
        hint "Inventory has been opened\nAdding event to uniform listbox";
        ((findDisplay 106) displayCtrl 105) ctrlSetEventHandler ["LBSelChanged", "_this call fnc_test"];
        waituntil {isnull (finddisplay 106)};
    };
};

I have seen the command ctrlSetText used to change text on a dialog menu.
Maybe something can be done there if you can find the displayCtrl of the gear description?


EDIT:
I got curious and unpacked the UI.pbo inside of the Arma2oa/Expansion/Addons folder, and used the unRap program to decompile the config.bin from the UI.pbo
I was able to get the IDC (dialog) numbers for the gear menus.

Here are some:
CA_Item_Picture = 1104
CA_CustomDescription = 1106
G_GearItems = 160

CA_Gear_slot_primary = 107

CA_Gear_slot_secondary = 108

CA_Gear_slot_handgun = 121

CA_Gear_slot_item1-12 = 109-120

CA_Gear_slot_handgun_item1-8 = 122-129

CA_ItemName = 1101
Gear_Title = 1001
Unit_Title = 101

Inside Expansion/dta/bin.pbo/config.bin is RscDisplayGear.hpp which lists:
RscDisplayGear = 106
Title = 101
B_Add = 146

B_Remove = 147
B_Rearm = 132
B_OpenBag = 157
B_CloseBag = 158
B_Close = 2
Pool = 105
Skill = 102
Vehicle = 103

It seems that the Weapons dialog is defined by IDC_GEAR_WEAPONS. The following are referenced:
IDC_GEAR_WEAPONS
IDC_GEAR_SELECT
IDC_GEAR_SELECT_TITLE

IDC_GEAR_SELECT_OVERVIEW

IDC_GEAR_SELECT_DROP

[Kind-Sir]

Update:
Appears that this has been added in the 1.0.2 update.
Got an idea for caching vehicle classnames to the classnames of the keys, then displaying what vehicle the key is used on.

[IrishMob]

That would be cool.