How to know if text has been skipped?

[unkelben]

Hi,

I'm trying to produce a detailed log of player behavior and the only thing I can't track is when player skips text. The rest of the actions I can log from the global "on_mouse_click" function, but this function doesn't seem to be fired when the player clicks to interrupt text.

I suppose I could turn off skipping text automatically and manage it myself but then I don't know how to check if a character is saying something nor how to force skip.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Jonathan

[Khris]

This might work:

In repeatedly_execute_always, loop through all characters, check if they are in player.Room, then check if they're .Speaking.
If they are and weren't the last loop, store them in a variable.
Set the variable to -1 if no char is currently speaking.
Then, detect keypresses/mouse clicks according to whatever you allowed the player to skip speech.
You should then be able to add "player skipped Character X's speech" to the log.

[unkelben]

Great suggestion, thanks.

Strangely, though, "character.Speaking" never seems to become true even when the character is "saying" something.

function repeatedly_execute() {
 
    if(cEgo.Speaking==true){
      logFile.WriteString("SPEAKING");
    }
}

This works if I change Speaking to Moving...

[monkey0506]

Note that Khris said "repeatedly_execute_always". This function is run even during blocking events like character speech. "repeatedly_execute" is not.

Further, you must also ensure the character has a speech view set or it won't work either.

[unkelben]

Everything works.

You guys are the best.

Thanks a lot.

Jonathan