Two questions

[JLM]

1. I'm going to make a conversation system to my game, in which you can select a topic from a list (a bit like in Quest for Glory series). My first question is: How can I change the text colors in the text box that includes the dialog topics? I want the topics that player has chosen an once to be "marked" that the player can always recognize the new, "untouched" topics.

2. Is there any way to make a charachter (or object) to accelerate? I mean, to increase its speed when it's moving? I first thought that's easy until I read from "AGS Help" to my disappointment: "You can't use the function SetCharacterSpeed() when the character is moving".

[Goot]

For your first question:
All the dialog options are displayed in the player character's talking color. Therefore, you can't really do what you asked for unless you make a completely customised dialog, using GUI buttons with different font colors, and a bunch of complex stuff which I'm not sure if you knwo how to do.
Got the second question:
If the player is moving the character around it will be very hard to do. But it it's a cutscene you can use this script:

int speed=//insert initial character speed//;
while(speed<//insert max speed here//){
MoveCharacter(GetPlayerCharacter(),coordinates of destination);
Wait(10);//or whatever value you choose, lower numbers mean
//faster acceleration, higher mean less-choppy animation
StopMoving(GetPlayerCharacter());
SetCharacterSpeed(GetPlayerCharacter(),speed+1);
speed++;
}

[Ishmael]

For your code, Goot, it's a good idea, but I think it make the character's animation choppy (if the thing is animated, like running or something) It would jump back to the 0 frame every time you StopMoving.

[JLM]

Thanks.

About the first question, I'm using as a dialog window a GUI that is simply text window. In general options, I have selected the checkbox "Dialog options uses GUI...".

Would it be impossible thought that the color of chosen topics could be changed after dialog in upcoming versions of AGS? I think it shouldn't be very difficult to implement, and many people might need this kind of option.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

While we're on the sbuject, is there still no way to scroll up/down dialog options in Custum GUIs if there are more options than GUI space? I don't know, some game.whatever variable, that allowed us to check for that and add our own nifty buttons? Like, you know, the Darkseed 2 dialog interface? You could make it easily with the default dialog, but you can't, because you can't scroll up/down options.

[Fabiano]

About the scroll option on gui. I put it in the "suggestions" for ags long time ago. Maybe is still there.

[JLM]

Ok, this is my new suggestion to AGS then:

A possibility to define text color in conversation system for "untouched" topics and "touched" topics. That means, the player can clearly see if there is new, unread topics in the list. I believe this suggestion would be quite easy to implement.

[Pumaman]

Interesting idea ... it's not trivial to add, since AGS would have to keep track of which options the player had selected, but it's certainly possible.

[Phemar]

My vote for the colors thing. I need it, NOW!