Gui Commands (start mission command)

#1 I beleive the Getting Started PDF tutorial that comes with the engine has exactly what you need. It shows you how to create a GUI and how to create a 'START' button to start the game/mission.

#2 Cool i'll look it up.

#3 Unfortunately the answer was not in the tutorial. It had a similar process that we eventually used but it was not what we needed

The good news was we were able to look as some of those scripts and build something similar that did every thing we wanted

Now we have a button that goes to a specific mission, starts a multilayer server and sets max players on the server. The great thing is we have variables set to this function so we can make diffrent buttons point to diffrent missions and different server maxs.

To do this we wrote a function into the Gui file itself. Here is the code for any one else interested in doing something similar but doesn't know where to start

//----------------------------------------
function LdMission(%mission, $numPlayers)
{
// %id = SM_missionList.getSelectedId();
// %mission = getField(SM_missionList.getRowTextById(%id), 1);
$Pref::Server::MaxPlayers = $numPlayers;
echo("\n--------- Maximum number of players set to:");
echo($Pref::Server::MaxPlayers);

if ($numPlayers > 1)
%serverType = "MultiPlayer";
else
%serverType = "SinglePlayer";

createServer(%serverType, %mission);
%conn = new GameConnection(ServerConnection);
RootGroup.add(ServerConnection);
// %conn.setConnectArgs($pref::Player::Name);
// %conn.setJoinPassword($Client::Password);
%conn.connectLocal();
}

Hope this helps others

#4 One way of doing this for single player games is as follows. (Do this on the client side)

function loadDefaultMission()
{
   Canvas.setCursor("DefaultCursor");
   createServer( "SinglePlayer", expandFileName("~/data/missions/simple.mis") );

   %conn = new GameConnection(ServerConnection);
   RootGroup.add(ServerConnection);
   %conn.setConnectArgs($pref::Player::Name);
   %conn.setJoinPassword($Client::Password);
   %conn.connectLocal();
}

Then have your button use the command loadDefaultMissing();