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Hi everyone!

I put a little function into a dialog, so that when the player asks something to another character (let's call this character Jim), Jim answers with a number which is different at anytime.
To do so, I put this very little function into the dialog_request:

VariableX = Random(200);
cJim.Say("%p", VariableX);

The problem is: when Jim says this number into the game, the number is always formed by 8 characters (so, with 000 at the beginning) and hexadecimal! For example: 0000001E.  

Where is my mistake? How can I avoid this and have displayed just a decimal number with no zeros at the beginning?
Thanks!

I know it may seem stupid, but I have problems looking at an inventory item. I want the main character to say something when looking on an inv item, and I only manage to make this dialog line start when the option "handle inventory clicks in script" is off. The problem is that, if that option is off, I have problems with other functions ("interact" and "use)...
Is this a common problem? Is there something I don't know about using these functions?
Here's the script i use:

function bLook_OnClick(GUIControl *control, MouseButton button)
{
Mouse.Mode = eModeLookat;
}

and

function iXxx_Look()
{
cYyy.Say("Bla bla bla");
}

Thanks everyone!

Hi, I know this is an extremely stupid problem, but I can't manage to solve it.
I want Talk function with a non player character to change when he (or she) is in a different room. To do this I set a "int" variable and make it change when room changes. So, I use this code: in the globalscript.ash I declare:

int BlaBla;

Then, I put the changing of the variable inside the function room_FirstLoad, like this:

function room_FirstLoad()
{
BlaBla = 1;
}

in room 1; BlaBla = 2 in room 2 etc.

And then I use this code in the globalscript.asc

function cJames_Talk()
{
if (BlaBla == 1)
{dJames1.Start();}
if (BlaBla == 2)
{dJames2.Start();}
}

But this doesn't work!  Why?
When I make the player and James interact nothing happens.
Where is my mistake?

Thanks everyone for help and patience!

NOTE: I use AGS 3.0

I use a sort of "status bar" in my game, a GUI with a label on which all things are happening in the game are written.
In order to write something like "Look at (objectname)" when I look at an object, I wrote this in the room script:

function oObject_Look()
{
lLabel.Text = String.Format("Look at %s", object[0].Name);
}

But it's a very annoying solution, because I have to repeat that line (lLabel.Text etc.) for every object, hotspot and character.
A more simple and faster solution, would be to make a general function, put it in the global script, and call it in the rooms whenever I Look at an object.
But is it possible to "generalize" a line like that? Is it possible to substitute object[0].Name with something general, something that doesn't refer to Object 0, but to every object I'm looking at?
I tried to search in the forum and in the manual, but I couldn't find an explanation, how to do functions related to all objects and not only to a particular object.
So, please, tell me what I have to write, or where I can find a tutorial for these kind of functions.
Thank you!

PS: I know of @OVERHOTSPOT@, but I don't like it because the name of the hotspot disappears when the cursor is not over it. Instead I want the name to be print on the GUI and to stay there until I do another action.

I had a visible inventory in my game and I wanted inventory items to be active when you left-click on it. I managed to do this.
Then, I tryed to make an exception: I want my inventory item to be active if I left click it, except if the lookAt cursor is active. If the lookAt cursor is actvive I want the function "inventoryitem_look()" to happen. But I don't know how to make it happen. So, here is my script:

if (button == eMouseLeftInv)
  {
    if (mouse.Mode == eModeLookat)
    { }
   else
   {
    player.ActiveInventory = inventory[ game.inv_activated ];
   }

Is this the right way to do what I want? And if so, what do I have to put instead of the smiley between the two brackets? I want it to be a generic function, so that every inventory item I look at, that function happens.

Thanks!

I just want my characters walk around other characters and objects, when they found them on their way, and don't go straight and through people/things.

I did a forum search, and I found that I have to turn on "solid" property of the characters, to avoid they walk though each other... I did it, for both characters, but it didn't work! Is it possible? They go on walking though each other. Is there something else I missed?

I also found interesting functions that would help: character.BlockingHeight and character.BlockingWidth, but I didn't understand how and where to use them in the script.
Do I have to put them inside a function {}? And, if yes, what kind of function? Or do I have to declare them in some way, just like variables and such things?

Thanks!

(PS: consider I don't have any experience of C and/or other programming languages... I'm learning something of programming with ags for the first time... and I'm enjoing a lot  .. except when I don't understand how to make things work  so, sorry if these questions seem extremely easy and stupid to you)

Ok, I know, you are going to shoot me for such a stupid question... but I search for an answer in the forum and I could't find anything!

So, here's my problem. I use AGS 3.0, and I just made my own personal Quit GUI and it just doesn't work, but I can't understand why: it seems to me that I didn't make mistakes. Here's the code I used:

function btnIconExit_Click(GUIControl *control, MouseButton button) {
 
  GuiQuit.Visible= true;
  gIconbar.Visible = false;
}

function ButtonLascia_OnClick(GUIControl *control, MouseButton button)
{
  QuitGame(0);
}

function ButtonGioca_OnClick(GUIControl *control, MouseButton button)
{
  GuiQuit.Visible = false;
  gIconbar.Visible = true;
}

ButtonGioca (to go on playing) works, it returns to the game.
ButtonLascia (to quit) doesn't work, doesn't happen anything: why???
Thanks everyone for help!

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PS: sorry for my not very good english... I'm Italian!