Adventure Game Studio

Hello everybody!

I'm trying to achieve what I think is a simple thing. I'm using AGS v3.4.0.6.

The game I'm working on has a single save slot. Whenever I hit the save button, I'd like the game to be saved at that slot and display "Game Saved!". The message will disappear after few seconds.
Then, when I restore that save, I'd like to display "Game loaded!".

In the documentation, it says that with SaveGameSlot() "The game will not be saved immediately; instead, it will be saved when the script function finishes executing".

At the moment I have this code in my GlobalScript.asc:

Overlay* myOverlay;

function repeatedly_execute_always()
{
    if (IsTimerExpired(20))
    {
        myOverlay.Remove();
    }
}

function on_key_press(eKeyCode keycode)
{
    if (keycode == eKeyF5)
    {
        SetTimer(20, 30);
        SaveGameSlot(1, "SaveGame");
        myOverlay = Overlay.CreateTextual(5, 5, 150, eFontfntTiny, 65535, "Game saved!");
    }

    if (keycode == eKeyF6)
    {
        RestoreGameSlot(1);
SetTimer(20, 30);
        myOverlay = Overlay.CreateTextual(5, 5, 150, eFontfntTiny, 65535, "Game loaded!");
    }
}
Now, since SaveGameSlot() only saves when the script function finishes executing, where should I put the Overlay code?

At the moment, when I restore the game it still carries on the "Game saved!" overlay.

Thanks in advance! :)

By the time your restore game triggers, the following code will never be run, since when you restore a game, you aren't even at the same point in the script (you're instead at the point just after you saved).

So if you add:

on_event (EventType event, int data)
{
    if (event == eEventRestoreGame)
    {
        SetTimer(20, 30);
        myOverlay = Overlay.CreateTextual(5, 5, 150, eFontfntTiny, 65535, "Game loaded!");
    }
}


It should work.

EVENTS!

Thanks a lot Scavenger! It works perfectly :)
I have never used events before and now I have definitely learned something new.