FancyMenu lets you add interactivity to your menus by assigning actions to elements. These actions run when a button is clicked, ticker is ticking, slider gets used, or when a screen opens or closes. You can also build advanced action scripts using simple control statements, such as if, else-if, else, and while, to control which actions run and when.
An action is a task or job that FancyMenu runs when triggered. For example, an action might open a new screen, send a chat message, or adjust the volume of an audio element. In FancyMenu’s editor, actions are configured with a value (if needed) that provides extra details—such as a URL or server address.
To create more complex behavior, FancyMenu supports basic control statements in action scripts. These include:
By combining these statements with actions, you can build dynamic and conditional behavior, for example, checking if a player’s health is low before sending a warning message or repeating an update until a condition changes.
Action scripts are versatile and can be used throughout your layout. You can assign them, for example, to:
Action values support dynamic content through placeholders. Most of the time these placeholders use a JSON-like syntax and are replaced with live data when the action runs.
These are the normal placeholders that can be used in many places throughout layouts.
They follow this syntax:
{"placeholder": "placeholder_id", "values": {"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2"}}
They can fetch game data like the player’s name, screen dimensions, or calculated values using the Calculator placeholder. You can also nest placeholders for more advanced uses.
$$value PlaceholderThe $$value placeholder is special. It’s used to insert the current interactive value of the element that the action is attached to. For example, if actions are used with a slider, using $$value in the action will be replaced with the slider’s current value.
Here are a few common actions you can assign via FancyMenu:
https://example.comexampleserver.com:25565Hello, world! or /help/, it’s treated as a command.To add, edit, or remove actions (and statement blocks) for an element, simply right-click the element (whether it’s a button, slider, ticker, or other interactive item) and then select Manage Action Script. This opens the Manage Actions screen, where you can: