So I played a text game where the creator moved the map into being a custom UI pane instead of it being in the area of the screen where text appears.
Does anyone know who to do that?
I wrote a script to do that a while ago; it must be on the forum somewhere because I don't have a copy of it.
Try the search function (at the bottom of the forum list). I just did and got these (some more related to your question than others).
Showing the map in a different window.
Dynamic game panes
(scroll down and check K.V's posts)
External popup picture over the gamewindow
Adding graphics in a specific location
That search function... it's not the best but it works, sort of.
The last one of those contains a version of my code. I think there's a later version with more fancy features somewhere, but I can't remember if I fully debugged it.