importing and deleting characters - any workarounds? (ANSWERED)

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

Several very old threads request the ability to delete characters. In 2005 Pumaman said it was on the 'to do' list. Did this ever happen?

No doubt 3.0 fixes this, but I use 2.72 for greater Linux compatibility. (My users' comfort is more important than my comfort.)

Manually overwriting a character is non-trivial, as many of my views use over two hundred sprites. I'd love to use the "import character" function but it won't work after 300 characters.

Are there any workarounds? Like importing over an identical name, changing an AGS file in a hex editor, etc.?

[Pumaman]

Yes, AGS 3.x allows you to delete characters.

In 2.72 it is not possible, if you've used up all 300 then you can't use the Import Character any more, which is quite rubbish. But then, 2.72 has lots of annoyances like that... there are no workarounds that I'm aware of, I'm afraid.

[EnterTheStory (aka tolworthy)]

Fair enough. Thanks. I didn't mean to impute anything wrong with 3.0. Sometimes I have to remind myself that my priorities are not the same as everyone else's priorities.