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Menus

• Menu objects
• Text
• Color Rectangle
• Menu Overlay
• Image
• Swf

Variables

• Integer
• String
• Number
• True/False
• Menu
• Menu Item
• Visibility Group

Triggers

Events

• Click a display object
• System Variable Changed
• Menu changed
• Game Finished Loading

Conditions

• Compare Numbers
• Compare Booleans
• Not
• Is
• Is Current Menu
• Is Not Current Menu
• Text Comparison
• Does Save State X Exist
• Is the game Loaded

Actions

• Set Variable This is used to set or change user created variables.
• Change Menu This is used for menu navigation.
• Update Visual Item This is used to Show or Hide a menu item.
• Move Menu Item This is used to change the location on the screen of a menu item.
• Change Bitmap Dimensions This is used to stretch or shrink color rectangles.
• Stretch Image Dimensions
• Update Text This is used to update text fields created in the game.
• Run Trigger This is used to run a new trigger within the current trigger.
• Run Trigger After X Seconds This is the same as run trigger, but can be set on a delay.
• If/Then
• If/Then/Else
• If/And/Then
• If/And/Then/Else
• Goto URL
• Save State This is used to save the game.
• Load State This is used to load the game.
• Save String
• Audio Manager- Play Audio
• Audio Manager- Play Audio Once
• Audio Manager- Stop Audio

Variables System Variables Custom Variables

Plugin Variables

Menus Menu Items

VariableBase Complex Codes

FunctionBase BuilderEnglishCode

Creating Plugins

Player

Name your project and main app file as such: [company][pluginName]Player for example: CallistekAudioManagerPlayer.as

Also keep all of your files and classes in a unique location for example:

com.companyName.artistGameMakerPlugins.AudioManager.*; this way they will not override anything, and will be used when running the main

PlayerPluginInterfacerBase

loadItem(node:XML):ItemBase

When the game starts, it will parse the menu items looking for the type that coorelates with it, node.@type == 'yourPluginName-yourMenuItem'

For example:

if(node@type == 'myUniquePluginId-itemType')
 return new UniqueItemType(node);
else
 return null;

Menu Item

tick

Set this variable to be a function that will be run every 'tick' as long as this menu is visible

For example:

__constructor__()
{
 tick=myTicker;
}

public function myTicker():void
{
 //code that needs constant updating while menu is visible
}

onShow

Set this variable to be a function that will be run when this menu item is 'shown' (when the menu is shown)

For example:

__constructor__()
{
 onShow=myFunction;
}

public function myFunction():void
{
 //code that should be run only once when a menu is shown
}

onHide

Set this variable to be a function that will be run when this menu item is 'hidden' (when the menu is hidden)

For example:

__constructor__()
{
 onHide=myFunction;
}

public function myFunction():void
{
 //code that should be run only once when a menu is hidden
}

Builder

Name your project and main app file as such: [company][pluginName]Builder CallistekAudioManagerBuilder.mxml

• builderPlugin.swf will override the playerPlugin.swf so be sure the builder is updated after changing anything it can initiate first