SOLVED: DisplayAt - Game.TextReadingSpeed problem.

[steptoe]

Hi

EDIT: Using Game.MinimumTextDisplayTimeMs seems to do the trick.

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I have just noticed that DisplayAt is not displaying text as Display does as it is not complying with Game.TextReadingSpeed which I have as 7.

I need to position text due to screen area.

Code: AGS

  DisplayAt(30, 100, 500,  "%s %s %s %s",
  "12 years have passed since that fateful day when your parents were killed. Over the years your mind has 
  been tortured by its darkside!",   
  "[[You have changed. From a mild mannered young boy to a disturbed, neurotic adolescent hell bent on 
  revenge!",
  "You enrolled in all the martial arts and made great acclaim in Kodokan Goshin Jutsu, Kapap, Bartitsu and 
  Karate. You have been preparing yourself to avenge your parents murders!",
  "[[You learn that the gang invloved in your parents death were part of the Polizti gang. They must pay! 
  They must suffer as you have!");

Can you offer a way round this?

cheers

[monkey0506]

invloved

I too suffer from a deep, longing desire to have inventory. In my pants.

Regarding this issue, without doing further testing, how long was the text staying on-screen? You're creating a rather lengthy string, but my initial thought is that if it's not displaying for very long it may be calculating the display time before injecting the formatted parameters. I don't see why it would be doing that, but could possibly be a bug. You definitely shouldn't have to use Game.MinimumTextDisplayTimeMs for this...

Edit: Based on some preliminary review of the editor source, this definitely doesn't look to be a bug. The text is being formatted before being displayed. So again, how long was the text actually displaying? Also, you were setting the text reading speed first right?

[steptoe]

Hi Monkey

with just Game reading text set at 15 the DisplayAt was showing for about 5 seconds only (4 strings.)

Was it actually failing to read all strings and stopped after first %s?

After fiddling around I use the Game.MinimumTextDisplayTimeMs set at 40000 alonf with Game reading text and it then seemed to be ok.

steptoe

[monkey0506]

Code: ags

String text = "Blah blah blah";
int loops = ((text.Length / Game.TextReadingSpeed) + 1) * GetGameSpeed();

Based on this formula and I calculated roughly 550 characters in your string, it should be displaying it for about 25 seconds.

Do some debugging for me...

Code: ags

DateTime *now = DateTime.Now;
int oldTime = now.RawTime;
String text = String.Format("%s %s %s %s",
  "12 years have passed since that fateful day when your parents were killed. Over the years your mind has been tortured by its darkside!",
  "[[You have changed. From a mild mannered young boy to a disturbed, neurotic adolescent hell bent on revenge!",
  "You enrolled in all the martial arts and made great acclaim in Kodokan Goshin Jutsu, Kapap, Bartitsu and Karate. You have been preparing yourself to avenge your parents murders!",
  "[[You learn that the gang invloved in your parents death were part of the Polizti gang. They must pay! They must suffer as you have!");
DisplayAt(30, 100, 500, text);
now = DateTime.Now;
Display("Text length: %d, Text reading speed: %d, Time elapsed: %d seconds!", text.Length, Game.TextReadingSpeed, now.RawTime - oldTime);

Please tell me exactly what output you get.

[steptoe]

Hi Monkey

I will give your code a test tomorrow..

cheers

steptoe

[monkey0506]

Hmm..I don't know where I got 25 from. I think I was insane when I typed that. It should be closer to 37.

By the way, for historical benefit, I just wanted to note that Red Belly PM'd me the following:

The script you suggested seems to work ok.

I only had game.skip_display = 0; and NO Game.TextReadingSpeed

This is what was returned:

Text length:554, Text Reading Speed:15, Time elapsed:37 seconds!

He didn't specify what changed between reportedly only showing for about 5 seconds...presumably it was something related to confusion between game.skip_display and Game.TextReadingSpeed? In any case, 37 seconds is the expected result (still don't know where I got 25 from), so it would seem that this indeed was a case of scripting error, and has been resolved.

P.S. Only off by 4 characters? Hah! Pretty good guess then.

[steptoe]

Monkey

what's 4 characters between friends

cheers a lotto 

[Calin Leafshade]

Hold on this might still be a bug.

You skipped the bug by formatting it as a string first.

Code: AGS

Display("%s %s", "lol", lmao");

is not the same as

Code: AGS

String text = String.Format("%s %s", "lol", "lmao");
Display(text);

(note that im not saying it *is* a bug, merely that you sidestepped the issue with your debugging)

[steptoe]

Hi Calin

yes, I understand what you are saying. I will look into this.

cheers

steptoe

[monkey0506]

I looked through the source and the two should be functionally equivalent. DisplayAt is definitely formatting the string before displaying it. Granted, you're right that I didn't actually test it by passing the values directly into the DisplayAt function, but the engine code is doing the same thing.