Window Displaying Tile Contents

[Camkitsune]

As part of the strategy engine I'm developing, I want to have a small window in the lower left corner that displays information on the tile the player's is currently standing on. I'd also like it to display soldier counts and a few other bits of relevant information when an event with the appropriate flags is under the player position.

There are two things I'm not clear on:
1) How would I go about putting a window into Scene_Map that would still allow the player to move around (like in Yanfly's Gab plugin)?
Would I specifically have to create the window during Scene_map.initialize and have it hidden except under the desired circumstances?
2) How do I Get a particular event's data based on its X/Y coordinates?
Getting the info from the event I understand; the major point of confusion is getting the Event itself so that I can do things like check for whether or not it has the relevant data.

 

[Clock Out]

Scenes are handles by the SceneManager object and the current scene is assigned to the _scene property. Initialized windows can be pushed onto the current scene using scene's addWindow() method.

Say we had a function that returns a new window.

function aWindow(x, y) {
    "use strict";

    var win = Object.create(Window_Base.prototype);
    var width = 300;
    var height = 200;

    win.constructor = aWindow;

    win.initialize(x, y, width, height);

    return win;
}

The window can be added to the running scene anytime.

SceneManager._scene.addWindow(aWindow());

The addWindow() method pushes the window onto the scene's _windowLayer.children array. If you want to see what windows are attached to a scene then inspect the children property.

SceneManager._scene._windowLayer.children;

It's up to you on whether you want to add the window using the scene's initialize method or if you want to do it later on. Call the window's open() or close() methods to make it appear or vanish as needed.

Events on the map can be found using the $gameMap object. Kino hosts an RPGMakerMV Library which is really handy for looking up properties and methods of game objects. For example $gameMap.eventsXy() returns the event at the specified x and y coordinates on the map. More can be found under Game_Map. If the player is standing on an event then it's possible to get the event by passing in the x and y properties of $gamePlayer.

$gameMap.eventsXy($gamePlayer.x, $gamePlayer.y);

 

[WickedWolfy]

I'd like to suggest this video tutorial Helped me out with starting on Windows with MV.