$game_message icon

Im making a custom dialogue with $game_message and would like to display an icon within the dialog,

is it possible or would i have to go about it some other way? 

Anything is possible with scripts - in this case, there is no default text code for icon display, but there are several advanced text systems that add such text codes - or you could script a sequence for the icon if you know the engine scripts.

Can't you add control characters to the dialog like $game_message.add("\i[item.icon_index]")?

I've also tried using win=Window_Base.new(0, 88, 544, 160)

win.draw_icon(1, 80, 20, 1)

which works, but it only seems to stay open for 3 seconds for some reason.

$game_message already has the ability to use icons. You just add \I[#] where # is the icon index. Take a look at Window_Base (and maybe Window_Message) to see how it handles it, if you're stopping it from doing its default behaviour.


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Maybe you should explain why you're making a custom dialogue and what you're doing that's different to the default message system. That might help us understand a little better, which SHOULD allow us to give better assistance :)

use \\i[index]

Im make a custom dialogue to have random people sell random things. 

If I used the default I don't think I could use a random face?

So far Ive tried item_id = rand($data_weapons.size), item = $data_weapons[item_id]

$game_message.add( \i[item.icon_index], \\i[item.icon_index],

"\i[item.icon_index]", "\\i[item.icon_index]" without any luck.

Ahh, it seems icon_index is the culprit, it gets written out instead of interpreted as a number.

It did however work when using it in Window_Base.

\\i[#{item.icon_index}]

Awesome, thanks :D