GUIOn/GUIOff Help?

[Rattrap93955]

OK. I'm having a major problem with my text parser. I can get it to parse, but I don't want it on in the Title Screen... Was using this for the script, but am not having any results at all, it just stays on:

function room_a() {
GUIOff(3);
}

Yet, the parser stays on in the Title screen. Did I miss something or what?

What I would really like to do is the old SCI0 parser, where you start to type and it pops up in the middle of the screen and everything pauses... Also, when I do do the AGI version, it doesn't clear when you hit enter....

Could someone explain this to me in plain english? Step by step or something?

[Gilbert]

Hmmm you have to put that GUIOff() line in the enter room before fade-in interaction of the title room, did you do that?

Please don't triple post, try to stay in one thread.

[Rattrap93955]

Didn't mean to triple post. Was having trouble with computer for two nights now. Wouldn't connect to the Internet and when it did, everything went it's own way.

[Rattrap93955]

OK. I have a new problem pertaining to the Text Parser... Why doesn't it accept any of the commands that I put in the script for the room, but it will accept all of the commands that have been put into the Global Script? Getting frustrated here. I can get just about anything to work except for the silly parser.

[Gilbert]

Hmmm can you post one of the nonworking portion of codes from the room script here?

[Rattrap93955]

OK. Here's the broken code:

function room_b() {
 // script for room: Player enters screen (after fadein)
if (Said("look")) {
       Display("You are standing on a very long and very dull beach. The sky is of a dreary grey and the Atlantic continues to lap at the beach.");
     SetTextBoxText(3,1,"");
 }
}

[Scorpiorus]

I doesn't work because you check the input string only when the player enters the room. When you press the enter key to input a typed command AGS calls interface_click function and that is something you could use.

Try the next implementation:


Main Global Script:


function interface_click(int interface, int button) {

if (interface == GUI_WITH_TEXTBOX_HERE) {

if (button == TEXTBOX_OBJECT_NUMBER_HERE) {

   string input;
   GetTextBoxText (interface, button, input);
   SetTextBoxText (interface, button, "");
   ParseText(input); // start parsing
   string buffer;
   if (SaidUnknownWord (buffer)) Display("You can't use '%s' in this game.", buffer);
   else if (Said("eat apple")) Display("You'd love to, but you don't have one.");
   //.....
   else CallRoomScript (1); // look for room-specific commads

}

}



Room 1 Script


function on_call(int value) {

if (value == 1) //the value we pass via the CallRoomScript(1)

   if (Said("look")) Display("You are standing on a very long and very dull beach. The sky is of a dreary grey and the Atlantic continues to lap at the beach.");

}

}




Room 2 Script


function on_call(int value) {

if (value == 1) //the value we pass via the CallRoomScript(1)

   if (Said("look")) Display("There is nothing to look at");

}

}


Thus you can have different responses for different rooms.


How does it turn out?

~Cheers