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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: closing inventory window with a right click

« on: 12 Apr 2018, 12:38 »

Would this also apply to clicks on an "empty" inventory window slot, ie a click on blank space?

I don't think so; AGS reliably sets game.inv_activated to the ID of the clicked item, so to handle a click on the blank part of the inv window, you need to fall back to on_event.

Try this:

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. void RightClick() {
2.   if (gInventory.Visible) gInventory.Visible = false;
3.   else if (player.ActiveInventory != null) player.ActiveInventory = null;
4.   else gInventory.Visible = true;
5. }
6.  
7.   // in on_mouse_click
8.   if (button == eMouseRight || button == eMouseRightInv) RightClick();
9.  
10. // set up on_event
11. MouseButton last;
12. void on_event (EventType event, int data) {
13.   if (event == eEventMouseDown) {
14.     for (int b = eMouseLeft; b <= eMouseMiddle; b++) if (mouse.IsButtonDown(b)) last = b;
15.   }
16.   if (event == eEventMouseUp) if (last == eMouseRight) RightClick();
17. }

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: closing inventory window with a right click

« on: 12 Apr 2018, 11:10 »

Right-clicking a GUI control should be caught by on_event / eEventGUIMouseUp/Down.
Right-clicking an inventory item can be handled with on_mouse_click / eMouseRightInv, provided you've activated custom inv click handling in General settings.

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The Rumpus Room / Re: AGS World Cup 2018 Prediction League (show of hands)

« on: 11 Apr 2018, 12:53 »

Yay, I'm in

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: Screenshots in game saves

« on: 11 Apr 2018, 10:02 »

If you open up the manual to the mandatory to read Tutorial section (or search it for "screenshot"), you will find:

Setting up the game -> General Settings, which has an explanation of each setting.

Save screenshots in save games - Saves a mini-screenshot of the player's current position into the save game file. This will create larger save game files, but it will mean that you can use a save game thumbnails GUI to make the save/load interface more professional.

As for associating it with a save game, what exactly do you mean? The default game uses

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1.   SaveGameSlot(gameSlotToSaveInto, txtNewSaveName.Text);

so you can use that number and append it to the filename of your manually saved image. Is that what you mean? What is your end goal here? Why do you need extra screenshots?

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: SOLVED: GetViewportX problem

« on: 11 Apr 2018, 09:56 »

The initial viewport coordinates depend on where the player character starts out in the room.
For a 1024 pixels wide game, viewportX is basically player.x - 512, with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of Room.Width - System.ViewportWidth.

I have no idea what you issue is, since I cannot translate "GetViewportX is not showing as it should" into anything meaningful.

Is cJonesP your player character? To which x coordinate are you sending them when you load the room? What do you expect to happen? What's happening instead? And so on. You know the drill.

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: Question re: Character.Say()

« on: 10 Apr 2018, 15:44 »

To be perfectly clear, you can use the dialog system with a custom function, just not the usual way.

Dialog script example

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. // this calls player.Say() and can no longer be used
2. player: Hello
3.  
4. // this has to be used instead
5.  player.S("Hello");

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Critics' Lounge / Re: About backgrounds in LucasArts adventure games

« on: 10 Apr 2018, 09:30 »

Near the top of the second page of the Critics lounge: Vintage Game Art Style How???

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: How do I move and animate objects at the same time

« on: 10 Apr 2018, 09:27 »

I would make the cart a character and have it walk, but I need the cart to be able to turn visibility on and off.

Characters have .Transparency, which means you can set that to 100 to make them completely invisible. Please check the relevant section of the manual's scripting part before opening threads.

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: Question re: Character.Say()

« on: 10 Apr 2018, 01:42 »

It sounds like you're looking for custom functions, in this case a customized Say() command. This is possible, sort of. (If you want your custom speech to be used for every line in the game, one major downside is that you can no longer use standard lines in dialog scripts; all spoken lines need to be using the custom function.)

Example:

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. // header
2. import void S(this Character*, String message);
3.  
4. // main script
5. void S(this Character*, String message) {
6.   this.Say(message);
7.   if (player.Room == cParrot.Room) cParrot.Say(message);
8. }

By using player.S("Hello"); the parrot will now automatically repeat whatever the player says.

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: Trying to get get an NPC to move around the room randomly in the background.

« on: 05 Apr 2018, 19:47 »

Code: Adventure Game Studio

1. int manY;
2. int manX;
3.  
4. function room_AfterFadeIn()
5. {
6.   manX=160;
7.   manY=100;
8.   SetTimer(1, 1);
9. }
10.  
11. function room_RepExec()
12. {
13.   if (cChar1.x == manX && cChar1.y == manY && IsTimerExpired(1)) {
14.     while (true) {
15.       manX=Random(280);
16.       manY=Random(173);
17.       if (GetWalkableAreaAt(manX, manY) > 0) break;  // screen coords!
18.     }
19.     cChar1.Move(manX, manY, eBlock);
20.     SetTimer(1, 50);
21.   }
22. }

This should do it.

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: Trying to get get an NPC to move around the room randomly in the background.

« on: 05 Apr 2018, 15:31 »

So you do have an initial SetTimer call somewhere in the part of the script you didn't post?

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The Rumpus Room / Re: What grinds my gears!

« on: 05 Apr 2018, 08:08 »

When people have programming issues and post "every time I do X, it does Y". DUH.

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: Trying to get get an NPC to move around the room randomly in the background.

« on: 05 Apr 2018, 08:03 »

And all Timers must come first in the condition.

That's nonsense, both as a general rule and in this case specifically. If the timer expired before the character has reached her goal, the movement would end for good, since the condition never evaluated to true.

ShiningRice: "it doesn't work" is not a useful problem description. What happens exactly? Does the character never move? Move once?

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: (SOLVED) Speech Bubble Text Window Problem

« on: 02 Apr 2018, 20:34 »

If you want actual speech bubbles (as opposed to Display() text that looks like them): http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=55542.0

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: Missing Plugin

« on: 31 Mar 2018, 19:48 »

He's on twitter: https://twitter.com/NihiLTV

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: RunAgsGame issue

« on: 27 Mar 2018, 22:31 »

Glad it's working, but can you tell us what exactly the issue was and what you did to fix it, in case somebody else finds this thread?

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: RunAgsGame issue

« on: 27 Mar 2018, 19:13 »

I gotta ask: exactly how sure are you that AGS did not load the 2nd exe? How subtle exactly are those differences?

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Advanced Technical Forum / Re: How do I make the custom/non-custom dialog options stay on screen while speech?

« on: 27 Mar 2018, 10:47 »

Check the GUI's Visibility setting, check General Settings -> Visual -> When player interface is disabled... and SetGameOption(OPT_WHENGUIDISABLED, ...) in the manual.

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General Discussion / Re: Ask something - We can help.

« on: 26 Mar 2018, 21:17 »

What about Signal? https://signal.org/download/

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Beginners' Technical Questions / Re: A Question About Music Continuity (coding)

« on: 23 Mar 2018, 07:40 »

Here's a solution that requires minimal work once implemented:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50363.msg636486911#msg636486911