Help window for skills

[Erinblue]

Hi,
I have been trying to edit the help window in battle, at the moment only with position, width and height. The thing is that it changes for all the help windows of skills, items, etc and I would like to only edit the skills one. I don't know if its possible somehow or if I have to make a new scene/window for that. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[Aloe Guvner]

You could make a new type of window (say, Window_SkillHelp) that inherits from Window_Help. Then make sure to create an instance of the new window in battle, and also update the skill select window to update the new help window rather than the old one.

 

[Erinblue]

Hello and thank you for your response!
I managed to make a new window and show it on battle, but I don't know how to make the skill select window update this new one. Any steps I have to follow?

 

[Aloe Guvner]

Start by looking through Scene_Battle to find where the skill selection window is created (I forget exactly the name of that window). Inside there, you'll see something like this (pseudo code)

Scene_Battle.prototype.createSkillzWindow() {
    this._skillzWindow = new Window_Skillz;
    this._skillzWindow._helpWindow = this._helpWindow;
}

You see the help window is assigned as a property of the skills window. Here is where you need to assign your special help window instead of the default help window

 

[Erinblue]

Thank you very much! I have finally made it work as intended!

 

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