Technical Questions From Me :)

[Khris]

Sorry man, don't take this too personal, I've just noticed that recently the beginner's forum gets kinda flooded with requests that are really very trivial to solve.
I try hard not to just post RTFM although it seems appropriate to do that to me half the time.
I mean, there's this really great manual which lists and explains all the available commands, with examples and sometimes in great detail. And some people seem to be complete unable to use it.

The other half of the time though the problem is different. The thing is that knowing the available commands is not enough, you need to "get" how to tackle programming problems. This can be difficult, and there's people who are more prone to fail at it than others, but my point is that teaching you this is not the purpose of this forum.
We still do it, I do it, but what this forum is for is to solve AGS scripting problems, not teach people how to program.

Excuse the rant, but I've been visiting this forum for almost five years now and seeing the umpteenth post about how the fuck to find out which inventory item was used just sometimes gets to me and I get a little rude.

There's great people here who ask good questions, who explain in an understandable way what they've tried, what happened, what didn't happen, what code they've used and what exact error message they got.
This should be the usual contents of a new topic's opening post here, but it's not by a long, long shot.
People don't post their code, tell something of an "error in some line", don't tell what didn't work, fail to explain themselves understandably and so on.
And then there's people who seem to not even have tried solving the damn problem ON THEIR OWN first.

That's what I read in your post, so if that's not true, excuse me.

[Knox]

Its ok...I understand. I actually work in a game studio and Ive been a texture artist for 6 years...they always get the newbies sitting next to me so I can teach  them what I know, and it can be frustrating when they ask questions without even trying themselves first...

I assure you, I am NOT like that...I dont have much background in programming, Im purely an artist...however Ive got knowledge in mel scripting, so I understand variables, functions, etc...

Perhaps I should refrain from asking too many questions for now though, the last thing I want to do is annoy people, or abuse the forums.

I guess Im so excited about this AGS program that I get caught up in the whole creation deal and post too quickly p'raps...

Anyways, sorry to anyone if I pass off as someone who doesnt take the time to try things out himself...I DO!! I really do...

[Khris]

Relax, it was just that one question, there are others who do this constantly.
Sorry again, please feel free to post anything you want. It's not my forum