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I was nice to the nurce. I have the gun, wallet, Maloys letter , wire cutter, screwdriver, cable. I have also Jansons number and Maloys adress. To get Maloys number I have to call Janson (in the hints & tips).  Wenn I dial Jansons number (24976) however, I get the message "Dialed the wrong number, sorry." Did I miss something? Can someone help me, please?
Thanks.

Sorry, no buttons appear in my window, only smileys. I will try to be clear.

After my last scripting catastrophe I made a new testgame. Now again, after I did something wron again, I got the message: Unable to open custom exe 'Compiled\Poging1.exe' for writing.

What I did:

1)
In Room1 I created a hotspot( hotspot2) with a property ‘exit' to differentiate it from other hotspots in rep_exec  in the global script, where I define my cursor graphics.
In the interaction editor I run a script that works fine:
Code:
// script for Hotspot 2 (Hotspot 2): Look at hotspot
if(mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseRight)){
  player.ChangeRoom(2, 240, 140);
}
if(mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft)){
   character[CHARACTER].Walk(187, 119,eBlock);
   DisplayMessage(4);
}

2)
Also in Room 1 I created a second hotspot (hotspot3) with the same ‘exit' property and the same code. Only the numbers were differernt. So, message(4) became message(3). It works fine.

3)
In Room3 I created a similar hotspot with similar code and with the same DisplayMessage(3).
I got an error:In room3 script(line13) DisplayMessage:Invalid message number to display.
:-[Of course, it referred to a room message of another room!

4)
Here it comes:
I created a global message 500 with the same words and adapted the message numbers for the hotspots in both room scripts.
After that, everything was grey in the file menu, exept prefernces, I think.  I even could not quit the program. In fact, I could not do anything anymore. A crash?

5)
I forced quit with Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
After that I get the ‘Unable to open …' message, when CHARACTER has walked to the coordinates in Room3.

Does someone know a remedy for this illness?

By the way, Ashen, I did not use the double_click code because it seemed to interfere with my cursorgraphics. When I deleted the lines referring to the Wait graphic, it did not work at all. Anyway, thank you for your answer and the trouble.

I would also like to know what the character ‘*' means in the following code:
double_click = WaitMouseKey(10)*mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft);
I  only understand for example this:
Hotspot*myhotspot;
myhotspot= whatever_that returns a value;
The pointers for newbies section did not make me wiser

Thanks to anybody who can help me.

Well, stupid at scripting as I am, I just put it above everything in global script. As I got error messages, I put the ‘int doubleclick' on top and the rest in game-start, and imported it as a function, fut rectified that after an error message.

Code:

    doubleclick = WaitMouseKey(8)*mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft);
Mouse.UseModeGraphic(eModeUsermode1);
export doubleclick;

After error messages I transferred everything to on-button-click, also the' int doubleclick'.
After some other error messages I came up with this code, and got the blocking function message. It is however possible, that, at that moment, the code was not deleted in game-start. It could be, that I forgot that and deleted it only after I got the message. I did not pay attention what was written on line 9, as I thought, the problem would be solved by deleting.

My code:
#sectionstart on_mouse_click  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE
int doubleclick;
function on_mouse_click(MouseButton button) // called when a mouse button is clicked. button is either LEFT or RIGHT
  {
  if (IsGamePaused() == 1) // Game is paused, so do nothing (ie. don't allow mouse click)
    {
  }
  else if (button == eMouseLeft) {

   ProcessClick(mouse.x,mouse.y,mouse.Mode);
    doubleclick = WaitMouseKey(8)*mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft);
Mouse.UseModeGraphic(eModeUsermode1);
export doubleclick;
}
else{
}
} 
#sectionend on_mouse_click  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE

It is possible, that, at that moment, the code was not deleted in game-start. It could be, that I forgot that and deleted it only after I got the message. I did not pay attention what was written on line 9, as I thought, the problem would be solved by deleting.
I gess, that, with all my doings, the engine got confused and stored things somewhere I cannot get at?

I read the code in Daryls thread ‘The Dig Template”:
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Citation about double click:
.....
*edit* new progress..

Code:
int double_click;

if (button==eMouseLeft) {
//SetMouseCursor(GetCursorMode()); // stops wait cursor appearing
double_click = WaitMouseKey(8);
mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft);
//SetDefaultCursor(2);

if (double_click) {

So I got past the error msgs.. Now I need to bind a function to the double click. Perhaps by adding a custom property to the hotspot I want to double click in? I'm not sure how to add code such as "if double_click over hotspot X, trigger player.ChangeRoom();"
Any idea?
Thanks..

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To add code such as "if double_click over hotspot X, trigger player.ChangeRoom();", you just create an interaction on hotspot X when it's clicked, and have something like:

Code:
import double_click; // Your global script will need a "export double_click;" on the end, too

function hotspot1_a()
{
  if (double_click)
    player.ChangeRoom();
}
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Thanks a bunch man, that worked actually great, after some more research. I had to put the int double_click; up in the global script before any sectionstarts to be able to export it. I added the export double_click; like you said, and used your code in the room script but I had to add int before double_click to be able to import it. Also, even though I renamed the script-O-Name to hPortalLeft it still had to be hotspot3_a() for AGS to recognize it, a bit odd?
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End of citation.

Thank you for your concern, Ashen. But if you don't see a possible solution immediately, please tell me so and do not bother. I will make a new testgame and post my code for criticism, before compiling.  Maybe you could, by the way, tell me, what is wrong in my last script in on-mouse-click. Thanks.
P.S. WaitMousekey (eight) changes into a smiley.Can't help that.

I messed up when trying out double click code from topic 12190.0.  When I testet the game, I got the error: "Unable to open custom exe'Compiled\Testgame.exe. Global script, line 9: A blocking function was called before the first room has been loaded."

So I deleted every double click code line in the main global script, the script header, I deleted even the  hotspots. But I still get the message.

EDIT
Thank you for your suggestion, Akatosh and KrisMUC, but there is nothing in there. Game-Start is empty.
As I got error messages, I deleted the code in the game-start section and put everything  in On-mouse-click. and an' int doubleclick' on top of the global script. Now everything is deleted, also in the On-mouse-click-section. I have other code in Rep-exec, but nothing I know of with 'doubleclick'. I think I messed eround too much with the code. 

Maybe, as a noob at scripting with glased over eyes, I should ask for advice about my code in the forum, before trying stupid things.

Did you check your game_start section in the global script?

Yes. See EDIT above. I wanted to avoid a double post, but maybe someone can still help me out?

I messed up when trying out double click code from topic 12190.0.  When I testet the game, I got the error: "Unable to open custom exe'Compiled\Testgame.exe. Global script, line 9: A blocking function was called before the first room has been loaded."

So I deleted every double click code line in the main global script, the script header, I deleted even the  hotspots. But I still get the message.

EDIT
Thank you for your suggestion, Akatosh and KrisMUC, but there is nothing in there. Game-Start is empty.
As I got error messages, I deleted the code in the game-start section and put everything  in On-mouse-click. and an' int doubleclick' on top of the global script. Now everything is deleted, also in the On-mouse-click-section. I have other code in Rep-exec, but nothing I know of with 'doubleclick'. I think I messed eround too much with the code. 

Maybe, as a noob at scripting with glased over eyes, I should ask for advice about my code in the forum, before trying stupid things.

I tried it, but without the variable, the cursor does not animate at all.
Thanks anyway.

EDIT:
I tried this code and it works perfectly:

#sectionstart repeatedly_execute  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE{
  // put anything you want to happen every game cycle here
function repeatedly_execute(){

if(GetLocationType(mouse.x, mouse.y)!=eLocationNothing)
if(mouse.Mode==eModeWalkto){
  mouse.SaveCursorUntilItLeaves();
  mouse.Mode=eModeInteract;
}
else{   
}
}
  I am happy as a kid.

I did not expect an answer so soon. Thank you KrisMUC. I quit the game without saving. Later I testet it and there was no error message about the on_ key_press function any more. After some “cleaning up” I testet again, and every thing worked. But I am not happy with it because of the slowness. I have sometimes to hover again and again over hotspots and objects, going from one to another, before the cursor changes into the animating one. I also had a region covering a small colum on the richt side of the window, with no interaction at all, and wenn I clicked on it in Walk mode, EGO displayed a message that was meant for a hotspot somewhere in the middle of the window? ?? There are definitly things I do not understand. This game has resolution 640-400, and 8  bit colors.

Kim

Hallo, his is my first post.

I have no experience with scripting and please excuse my lack of experience with wrighting english too.

I made a script about cursors(see far below), but cannot test or save my game because of following error message: There was an error compiling your script. The problem was: In ‘Global script ‘
Error (line 36): Nested functions not supported (you may have forgotten a closing brace).

I am not aware, that I changed anything in this default script, and I do not see something wrong:

#sectionstart on_key_press  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE
Line 36:  function on_key_press(int keycode) // called when a key is pressed. keycode holds the key's ASCII code
  {
  if (IsGamePaused()==1) keycode=0; // game paused, so don't react to keypresses
  if (keycode==17) QuitGame(1); // Ctrl-Q
  if (keycode==363) SaveGameDialog(); // F5
  if (keycode==365) RestoreGameDialog(); // F7
  if (keycode==367) RestartGame(); // F9
  if (keycode==434) SaveScreenShot("scrnshot.pcx");  // F12
  if (keycode==9) InventoryScreen(); // Tab, show inventory
  if (keycode==19) Debug(0,0); // Ctrl-S, give all inventory
  if (keycode==22) Debug(1,0); // Ctrl-V, version
  if (keycode==1) Debug(2,0); // Ctrl-A, show walkable areas
  if (keycode==24) Debug(3,0); // Ctrl-X, teleport to room
  }
#sectionend on_key_press  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE

Maybe I can delete the whole thing, as I do not use it?

The script I wanted to test should change the mouse.Mode automatically to eModeInteract, wenn over a hotspot, etc. and animate with view INTER, loop 0. When I only change the curor mode automatically, the animation does not work any more. So I must tell the engine in a script, to animate.
I wrote one inspired from a respons from Ashen to a question about animating a cursor wenn over one specific hotspot. Mine is meant to work in all the rooms and also on regions. On regions I want to change the cursor graphic to still another one, also animating, but for a beginning I prefer to try this script first., because I do not know yet where to put the region thing with the Region.GetAtRoomXY …. function in the script. I am sorry, it all looks very complicated to me.

Code:

#sectionstart repeatedly_execute  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE{
  // put anything you want to happen every game cycle here

int cursorset;
function repeatedly_execute(){
if(GetLocationType(mouse.x, mouse.y)==eLocationNothing)
  if(cursorset==0){
mouse.Mode=eModeWalkto;
cursorset=1;
}
else{
  if(cursorset==1){
    mouse.Mode=eModeInteract;
    Mouse.ChangeModeView(eModeInteract,INTER);
   
cursorset=0;
}
}


Maybe I should use global integers here, but I have no clue how to do that.

If anyone with experience would tell me if there is something wrong with what I have written and explain it to me, I would be gratefull.

Kim