Hey Phil, Small looping crash quirk. The keyboard character [ anywhere in a sentense typed in by a player causes TAB to crash out.  Jason Hey Phil, Small...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 6, 2008 7:53 pm
Thanks Jason, Â I'll take a look at that. Regards, catventure. TAB is available for download at the HomePage: http://tab.thinbasic.com/ Join the TAB Email...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 7, 2008 9:50 am
Hello Jason,  ... Small looping crash quirk. The keyboard character [ anywhere in a sentense typed in by a player causes TAB to crash out.<<  This quirk...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 7, 2008 2:22 pm
Hello TAB users, Â I really cannot believe it but SAVE RESPONSE, SAVE SCRIPT1, SAVE SCRIPT2 and SAVE CHAR SPEECH buttons on the respective editors are saving...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 11, 2008 11:30 am
Hi Folks, Alpha 42 is now ready. 11 Sep 2008 (Release 42) ========= *NEW. "Create New" button on Message Editor. Finds and goes to the first free available...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 11, 2008 6:02 pm
Hi Phil,  Thanks for the update of TAB. IT works perfect now and nice to be rid of the Tool tips! The spaces between combined messages looks alot better.  ...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 11, 2008 7:23 pm
A revised Alpha 42 is posted tonight to fix a serious coding error. 11 Sep 2008, 20:15 GMT. http://tab.thinbasic.com/ Apologies, Regards, catventure. TAB is...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 12, 2008 7:25 am
Hi Jason, Â It should work as you wanted - but make sure you get last night's update/revision to Alpha 42 posted at 20:15 GMT. Â There was a serious coding...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 12, 2008 10:56 am
Hi, Further small revision update this morning. Â *FIX. Input textbox now inactive after user "quit" or "gameover"; action. http://tab.thinbasic.com/ Regards, ...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 12, 2008 7:02 pm
Hi Phil & Happy weekend!  I got the repeating word code to work for objn1=objn2 and charn1=charn2 but can't get the n1=n2 to work. Here is the code  ...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 12, 2008 10:45 pm
Hi Phil,  Just another quick question. Players can type in numbers & symbols and they are treated as %?% which comes up with all my coding catchalls. For...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 13, 2008 12:53 am
Hi Phil, I've spent hours on 1 simple piece of code and can't get it to work. Is this piece of code vaild?  objloc4=carried  Which I believe to mean that...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 13, 2008 8:49 am
Hi Jason, Â You are right. Â CONDITIONS "n1=n2", "n2=n1", "n1<>n2" "n2<>n1" are missing! Â I've added these now for next revision coming very soon. Â ...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 13, 2008 8:55 am
Hi Jason (witching hour tabber), Â The "objlocX..." ACTION commands currently don't support "carried", "worn" or "here" unlike the "objlocn1..." or...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 13, 2008 11:29 am
Hi Phil, Right, So there is no way I can check a certain object is in a room that doesn't use n1 or n2. objloc4=here I guess I can used...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 13, 2008 3:58 pm
Hi Jason. That's right. Â Or you could use: Â #or_objloc4>500#or_objloc4=room# Â rem: Is Object 4 carried, worn or in current room. Â Regards, catventure. ...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 13, 2008 4:14 pm
Hi Jason,  ...  OK. I have made it so numbers can now be entered into deletions.  ...  It WILL be possible to do this. I am awaiting program language...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 13, 2008 4:29 pm
Hi,  On second thoughts this is better:  #or_objloc4=501#or_objloc4=502#or_objloc4=room#  because the object may be in a character carried/worn location...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 13, 2008 5:10 pm
Hi Phil, Yeah your right. Numbers are needed. Wondering if they could just be excluded from showing in the %?% tag. Â I cut and pasted your CLOCK into my...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 13, 2008 6:14 pm
Thanks Phil, It's always been a pest the carried or worn. Can a player throw a hat if it is worn? Can you drop it if your wearing it? Sure you can but the...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 13, 2008 8:22 pm
Hi Jason, Â Hope you have fun adapting that clock code! Â The wintitle cannot contain color codes. Sorry. Â The color codes tags for game text can also be...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 13, 2008 8:34 pm
Online Color Picker tool here for RGB values http://html-color-codes.info/ Â Regards, catventure. TAB is available for download at the HomePage: ...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 14, 2008 1:19 am
Hi Phil,  Would it be possible on the TAB player to adjust the score and turns displays on the bottom right. I've rarely used score so it will read score: 0...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 14, 2008 1:00 pm
Hi Jason,  ... Would it be possible on the TAB player to adjust the score and turns displays on the bottom right. I've rarely used score so it will read...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 14, 2008 1:03 pm
Hi Jason, Â ... A condition that bonds carried and worn. Â objlocn1=carrworncont A condition that bonds carried, worn and if the object is in a container a...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 14, 2008 1:57 pm
Thanks Phil, There new conditions will make it much easier for the coder and save on coding. I can get rid of about 30 #else# Â statements and condense some...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 14, 2008 2:44 pm
Hi Phil, Â Can't wait to start messing around with the panes. Think I will keep the short version of location descriptions there. Pane 1 can be altered in the...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 14, 2008 3:05 pm
Hi Jason, Â Best to keep the hints ingame but you can always use dialogmess to show a message in a box with hints... I'm afraid you cannot change the panetext...
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Philip Richmond
catventure
Sep 14, 2008 4:21 pm
Hi Jason,  OK. I have the new conditions working satisfactorily :)  They will only work for "objlocn1"; and "objlocn2"; and NOT "objlocX".  Going back to...
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jason nicholls
extremeouija
Sep 14, 2008 6:11 pm
Hi Phil, Â Great news on the new conditions. Very good work. Will make my TAB life easier! Look forward to using them. Â Funnily enough I did have quite afew...
