How would I populate a choice box Options

[Adrien.]

with all the characters in your party? is there a way to populate a choice box with whom you currently have in your party?

[Kaust]

This seems way, way too vague.
To what purpose are you doing this? Hearing a particular character's response? Selecting them for something?
Naturally the complexity of the goal changes the method.

[Adrien.]

I need to populate a choice box with every character in your party to allow you to select from the current characters to remove them for errands. you cannot rely on who will be in your party at that time because of party switching. hence populating a choice box. There should be a way to do this that stated "for character in party, populate choice box"

This post has been edited by Adrien.: Feb 4 2012, 12:15 PM

[Kread-EX]

You mean a dialogue choice letting you pick a party member? Yeah, you can't do that so you'll have to rely on conditional branches and checking every party configuration just like in the old days. It's tedious I know :<

[Adrien.]

but...but....I could have 12 people in the "reserve" and you can only have 3 characters in the active party.... (if I understand this: 3 x 12 = 36)

is there another, easier way to allow you, on screen to select from your characters?

[Kread-EX]

Making a game takes effort, glad you finally realized it.
/sarcasm

Joking aside, there might be an easier way, but it's unconventional. I'll explain it either way, in case you want to try.

You probably know already that you can display variables in the choice box. Well, what you can do is set the variable with a script call event command, just like this:

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$game_variables[x] = $game_party.members[1].name
$game_variables[y] = $game_party.members[2].name
$game_variables[z] = $game_party.members[3].name

Then use \V[x], \V[y] and \V[z] in the choices. In this specific case, they will display the name of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th member in the party.

Now, in the choice block, don't put any commands except this:

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$game_variables[p] = $game_variables[xyz]

"p" is a fourth variable and xyz is one of the three previous ones, depending of the block (for instance, if you're in the x block, then put x).

After that, you can use a set of conditional branch (after the whole choice block, not inside every choice sub-blocks) and check if the variable "p" match with an actor name. This way, you'll use one-third of the conditional branches you would use normally.