Quick question about limits

[Montague]

I'm making a dialog system based on a GUI and buttons with pictures of characters so that when I click a button they'll talk about that character. I was wondering what category (dialog script messages etc) the messages fall into? -Just so I know what limits I have to work with. -Thanks

[SSH]

It depends on how you code it. You could make the button press run a dialog, or some script code, or display messages, etc. It's entirely up to you, so it really is limited only by your programming ability...!

[Montague]

So far I've just typed "cEgo.Say" etc in the button script. Bad idea?

[SSH]

well, I hope you follow it by some brackets, quotes and something for him to say. I also hope that you have a character called "Ego"...

[Montague]

Well yes, I'm not *that* green. I was just wondering what kind of messages they count as regarding the system limits?

[SSH]

There are no limits to the amount of script you can have.

[Montague]

Oh. That's good news. So what do the things in System Limits in the manual mean?

[SSH]

There are maximum...

   20  objects per room
  100  messages per room: these are interaction editor messages, not script strings
  500  global messages: again, not script strings, see the global messages pane
  299  rooms per game (actually more, but rooms>300 do not have their state saved)
  300  inventory items
15000  imported sprites
  240  sprites per folder
  600  views
   16  loops per view
   20  frames in each loop
  300  characters
   50  GUIs
   30  controls on each GUI
  500  dialog topics (for dialog editor: you can do more manually with scripting)
 3000  dialog-script messages (you can do more manually with scripting)
   30  options per topic 
   20  screen overlays at a time
  500  script GlobalInts (you can make your own named global ints with scripting)
   50  script GlobalStrings (you can make your own named global Strings with scripting)
  100  interaction editor global variables (you can make your own named global ints with scripting)
    5  background frames per room
   20  mouse cursors

[Montague]

Oh, I see.  Thanks for your help, it was enlightening!

[Pumaman]

Dialog message limits are for messages you write in the dialog editor. There are no limits to the number of cEgo.Say-style lines you can write in the script.