We currently put a check in every verb we can think of that checks a bool... As for pause, we are working with pictures, and a cutscene of 4+ pictures in a row...
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Thomas Nilsson
thoni_dansare
Nov 4, 2011 9:02 am
You can get the players name as a string parameter in a command using ordinary syntax definitions: Syntax my_name = my name is (n) Where n Isa string ... Or...
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Thomas Nilsson
thoni_dansare
Nov 4, 2011 9:07 am
I suppose you are aware of the fact that a player input of a simple ENTER is considered an empty command and advances the game. And I suppose this is the ENTER...
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zicand
Nov 4, 2011 9:22 am
Yep ;D And thanks alot for the name solution! Best Regards Björn T.R....
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anssi_raisanen
Nov 5, 2011 8:09 am
... Coming a bit late into the discussion, I still add a thought or two. By a pause Björn means that there is no cursor blinking after the text, so the player...
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zicand
Nov 7, 2011 12:57 pm
That would be awesome, but how do I know what room I would return to? But for our current solution, well, yes, we have added the check to every exit also ;)......
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anssi_raisanen
Nov 9, 2011 10:24 am
... I have now sent the extension file to the website server but it needs to be reviewed by Thomas and added to the extensions page. Once it's there, you can...
Hi there, I'm new to AlanIF. I downloaded the IDE, but when I start, it won't show any compile, debug, run icons for Alan. I cannot even see a save icon/menu...
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Stephen Griffiths
stephen.grif...
Mar 30, 2012 7:13 am
Hi Kristo, The AlanIDE has a simple compile/debug system -- it automatically compiles and displays any compiler-error messages when you save a source-code...
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RobertD
robert.deford
May 13, 2012 4:40 pm
Hi all, I'm just starting to learn Allen. I'm about half way through the tutorial in the Beginner's Guide. As I learned about setting values for attributes and...
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anssi_raisanen
May 14, 2012 8:24 am
Hi Robert, The beginner's guide applies to the previous version of the library so it is not one-to-one compatible with the present version. You can see default...
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stevgrif@...
May 14, 2012 9:53 am
Robert wrote ... Anssi replied ... In the Alan manual chapter 3, the default classes such as 'location', etc are described in detail. I think these are the...
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jmarno
jaye_marno
May 14, 2012 1:31 pm
I'm rather pleasantly surprised that the Beginner's Guide continues to be relevant and useful in the present incarnations of Alan. I wrote the Guide during the...
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anssi_raisanen
May 14, 2012 5:14 pm
At present, the tutorials for the new library are the snippets of advice within the library files themselves, the sample game (+ code) distributed together...
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RobertD
robert.deford
May 17, 2012 10:30 pm
@ abssu_raisanen, jmarno, stevgrif Thanks guys! I think I can take it from here. Robert...
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RobertD
robert.deford
May 25, 2012 6:27 pm
As suggested here earlier, I took time to read the first three chapters of the Alan Ref Man, a long read indeed. I did not find the default attributes for the...
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anssi_raisanen
May 26, 2012 4:21 am
... Hi Robert! Good you found the thing you were looking for; I did mention the verbs.i passage in my post from May 14 but realize now that I might have been a...
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RobertD
robert.deford
May 26, 2012 1:12 pm
Hi Anssi, I am a little embarrassed because you did actually answer my question in your May 14 post, albeit a little indirectly. I just didn't know enough...
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anssi_raisanen
May 27, 2012 6:29 am
... That sounds very much like how I feel about I7. Some of the initial stuff like declaring locations, objects and actors is pretty simple, but achieving...
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Robert DeFord
robert.deford
Jun 14, 2012 4:00 pm
I've managed to fool around and get the outline view in AlanIDE to stop listing the object instances. Now it shows only Imports, Entities, Classes, Syntax, and...
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Robert DeFord
robert.deford
Jun 14, 2012 4:32 pm
I have found and fixed my AlanIDE outline view problem. It was not an AlanIDE issue. Instead, I managed to write some source code that complied without an...
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Thomas Nilsson
thoni_dansare
Jun 15, 2012 10:56 am
Good. It might be useful to know that there are actually two "compilers" involved. One which is the "real" Alan compiler which not only analyzes for errors but...
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anssi_raisanen
Jun 21, 2012 4:43 am
"ALAN Cookbook" has now been uploaded to the files section of this group. It is a reference file that contains tips for how to implement various things in the...
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mytranings@...
mytranings
Jun 29, 2012 1:01 pm
HI, PLEASE FIND THE BELOW LINK FOR .NET ONLINE TRAINING AND PROJECT SUPPORT. http://onlinenettrainings.blogspot.com/ PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT FOR ANY...
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Robert DeFord
robert.deford
Jul 27, 2012 4:05 pm
I created a READABLE object instance with a string as the value for the TEXT attribute. This string had 299 words (1623 characters) in it. I am using Gargoyle...
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Stephen Griffiths
stephen.grif...
Jul 28, 2012 6:10 am
Interesting. I tried replicating the behaviour Robert's reported. Yip.. I can crash Linux 'Gargoyle-Free' with a 'SAY' statement. Playing the same game with...
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RobertD
robert.deford
Jul 28, 2012 12:32 pm
Thanks for the followup Stephen. You did a great job of identifying the source of the problem, which is Gargoyle not Alan. That's helpful for an Alan newbie...
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Robert DeFord
robert.deford
Aug 12, 2012 1:48 pm
OK, so the hero is in a room. The room has a dead battery in it that is on a shelf. The hero is carrying a storage battery. The player types 'drop battery' and...
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Thomas Nilsson
thoni_dansare
Aug 12, 2012 11:51 pm
Thanks for your comment, Robert! That issue is known and in the list of things to fix at some point. The problem is that the current disambiguation does not...
