Hyperlinks on games?

PsychicHeart · Fri 10/06/2005 09:25:01

hey, can i put a hyperlink to a website on my game with AGS?

Ishmael · Fri 10/06/2005 10:43:58

Can you what?

Put a hyperlink into an AGS game? No. Accompany an AGS game with a hyperlink? Yes, make a HTML manual or something. Something else? Elaborate, please.

Sam. · Fri 10/06/2005 10:54:38

no you cannot. IIRC there is NO function in AGS to use hyperlinks, i don't really know why youd want to. If you can tell us why you want to, maybe there is a work around that can be found, but there is no way to use html scripts in AGS (right?)

PsychicHeart · Fri 10/06/2005 11:18:01

so you can go straight to the game developers site if clicked on an object. If you've ever played Elf Bowling you'll know what i mean.

Ashen · Fri 10/06/2005 11:25:08

In that case:

Quote from: Ishmael on Fri 10/06/2005 10:43:58
Put a hyperlink into an AGS game? No. Accompany an AGS game with a hyperlink? Yes, make a HTML manual or something.

You can also mention the URL in the game, of course, but you can't make it an actual link - unless there's some fancy plug-in* I'm not aware of. If you used another program to create an installer/launcher, you could probably put a link button on that.

*EDIT: Such as the TCP/IP plug-in Gilbot mentions, which I also had in mind might do the job, but would likely be a lot of work for a fairly minor result.

Gilbert · Fri 10/06/2005 11:37:13

It may be possible to do this via the TCP/IP plugin (I'm not sure, I'll never touch plugins), but it definitely would involve some scriptings anyway,

Ishmael · Fri 10/06/2005 12:22:10

Hmmm... yeah, have the TPC/IP plugin send a call to a server you have up, which in turn send a call to the computer using some exploit in IE so that it opens up that page

Reko · Fri 10/06/2005 20:59:49

Erm..that's not what the TCP/IP plugin does. I think he wants to ShellExecute an URL, TCP/IP plugin would be more like implementing a web browser in an AGS game, which is a bit over the top.

Ishmael · Fri 10/06/2005 21:09:46

No, you didn't get it... I said have the plugin send a call to a remote server, that sends back a call to open an IE window... it would have been possible with IE 6.0 orginally, I reckon, there was some rather nasty security hole in it... But anyway, on with the topic Â¬Â¬