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Take a look in the manual about the command RunAGSGame

A few months back, I was confused about it and posted a thread about it here.

You can set the variable to something odd that wouldn't be triggered if the game was run on its own.

There is a 2d engine out there called Construct. I've been playing with it to make a platformer, but others on their forum are making RPGs.

Constrict isn't technically in a final release, but it's fairly stable for being so new. Their forums are also very welcoming to newbies, which always makes the experience better.

I'm not sure about that error. I'm not an epson support tech... but, I did check a little more into it for you. I did find this on the epson FAQs for your scanner.

Q: The Microsoft Windows 7 Support page does not list a driver for my scanner. Is a driver available for my scanner?

A: No, there is no Windows 7 driver available for your product.
Published: October 23, 2009

Looks like it might not work, but there are a couple of other things you can try.

1) Run the driver installer under windows XP compatibility mode.
2) email Epson support and ask if there is any way to get it working.
3) You can try to find generic scanner drivers for windows 7 that will work. What about the generic windows scanner driver? I couldn't watch your youtube video because I'm at work.
4) Post your troubles on a printer/scanner forum... you should probably do that anyway.

A quick search of google showed that some had good results installing the XP driver in Windows 7. Did you try that already?

Also, you could try emailing epson for an equivalent generic driver...

Please tell us what you tried already. Also, are you running 32 bit or 64?

So, is that variable a variable in the new game?

Could I pass any sort of variable through or just an int? I guess I'm not really sure what gets passed into the new game?

Where is that variable defined? In the previous game or in the new game?

I apologize for being dumb.

In the manual for RunAGSGame, it has the code of

Code: ags

RunAGSGame ("MyGame.exe", 0, 51);

Where the last number is the int data where I can pass an in to the new game.

What confuses me is what exactly does the int data come from? Do I make an int in the new game and pass that 51 into it at the start of the game? Where does 51 come from and where do I put it once I have it?

I think I'm confusing myself just a little. I'm not to the part where I have to code this, I'm still in the planning phase and trying to think ahead a bit as to how I'm going to do certain parts of the game.

Posting on break from my job. I'm a support tech for a software company called Sage, working the DacEasy support line.

Snake: Could you go to selective startup? Though if Safe Mode is acting all insane as well, this might not help you much. Those new messages don't sound very good.

Go to Start> Run  and type msconfig
On the General Tabclick the option for selective startup
Uncheck load all startup items
Go to the Services tab
There is a checkbox under the list that says "Hide All Microsoft Services". Check it.
Then click Disable All.
Then Apply, then OK, then restart. It should start up without out any unnecessary services and programs.

Something is causing Windows to freak out. I vaguely remember something about rundll acting up when I was on Win98... but that was a long time ago. But then again, I was on the internet and Hijack This and pc-cillin seemed to take care of that.

You may have to format and install again if you can dig up a Win 98 disk... if you're trying to find a new 98 disk, go for SE (second edition) it was better.

Is your mouse a PS/2 mouse or is it USB? Though if Windows is losing the mouse driver, I'm not sure if it's the port or windows.

You said the video card was a PCI, did you try switching which PCI slot it is plugged into? I once had some issues with a card like that and pulled it out, blew some canned air into the slot and through the vid card and it decided that it was okay.

It's a bit hard to track down what might be going on if this computer isn't used all the time. Usually if the computer is on and running it's easier to catch when things start going south.

Thanks monkey! This is the closest I've gotten so far to the effect I was going after. There is one problem though, it picks up objects that have their visibility set to false. Oh well! I will have to see if I can add a line in there to fix that once I'm not at work and don't have to code in between taking calls. Pesky customers, getting in the way of my game.

To everyone else, thanks, those are all good ideas and I'm going to keep them in mind if things can't work with my invisible objects.

Okay gang, I did scrap the horrible bits of code I pieced together... it was an ugly "swap images" code, but I didn't think of making the image numbers consecutive. (I knew I was making more work for myself)

So I tried out the first two codes to see how they'd work.

Monkey, your code and I get an saying that I can't call a blocking function from rep ex always on this line:

Code: ags

cScanner.Say(object[scanID].Name); // display the object's name

Garage, I like the idea of your code. And I really want to see how it looks, but I'm not sure where to put it. I'm going to play around with this a little bit more when I have some more time.

Khris, I'll test out that module and see how that goes... I thought there was a module that did that, but I couldn't remember what it was called.

I tried responding three times, but you guys kept posting! Thanks guys.

Hello all. I'm working on a text parser game where the player character is a remotely controlled robot. This little robot has the ability to do a general scan of the room and can easily find the objects and hotspots that it can interact with.

Here's an example, done in photoshop that demonstrates what I'd like to do:

Before scan effect


Scan effect last for a brief time and then shuts off


I'm just not sure where to start. I thought about swapping object images when the effect is on, but I don't think that'd really be the best way to do it. If anybody has any ideas on a direction for this, I'm willing to listen.

And, of course, I'll post my code in case anyone else might want it.

Thanks in advance!

Is there any way to export the text parser list into another game? I can't see any options for this at all, but I suppose it doesn't hurt to ask. I spent a lot of time typing out synonyms and accidentally put them into the wrong game... whoops...

It isn't a big deal, but something I was wondering about.

The best results, I've found, is that after doing a pencil sketch, I'll go over the sketch with a very thin sharpie or pigma micron pen. Then I'll scan at 300 DPI and adjust the brightness/contrast setting until it looks okay.

If you have Adobe Illustrator (CS2 and higher) You can import the image over and use what is called Live Trace to get clean vectors of a scan. That can, then be tweaked to the desired result. The Live Trace used to be a stand-alone program called Streamline, but it achieved the same effect - clean lines from a scan.

Another good program for getting rid of things that just won't uninstall is the Microsoft Windows Installer Cleanup Utility available here. It works wonders when Vista decides to block installing with its silly UAC.

You're welcome Nikolas! Glad to hear that worked.

Sometimes you just have to destroy some crazy little files and make them recreate for you.

I had an issue like this a couple of months ago. I found the answer on a forum after trying to reset the cookies. The following worked for me and I haven't had a problem since.

There may be a problem with the file that stores the cookies.
Delete cookies.sqlite and cookies.txt (may not be there) in the Profile Folder.
See Cookies (MozillaZine KB)

I've been using Windows 7 since Beta 7000 came out in February. Now I'm running RC1 and don't have any problems... the only game that lags a little is Half Life 2.

Have you tried updating your drivers to the latest vista drivers? Does it do the same if compatibility mode is turned off or set to vista? What kind of sound card do you have? Is it a creative? They have notoriously fiddly drivers... you might have to look for a driver guru that made win 7 compatible drivers for your card.

The color scheme thing happened in Vista as well... and I'm sure will continue. It isn't very obnoxious if it doesn't pop up and yell at you, just change the boarder of the window.

There's one we always did in high school computer class...

Take a screen shot of the desktop, then set that as the wallpaper... then delete all the icons on the desktop. There will be clicking... and clicking... and not even restarting will get those poor icons back.

Also, you could have the guy take over a tech support call...

"Okay, now type format c:"

you wanna try a challenge then try using MacOSX 10.5

Um... I don't think so, lol. I went through 4 years of graphic design school without touching a Mac and I hope to keep it that way. Don't ask me why, but I just don't like them. 

So you're kind of experimental bunny? (the animal-meaning of the word of course)

Yes, it's a hobby... at least this time I'm not eating 16 boxes of generic brand Mac & Cheese (that's a long story, but unrelated to anything here)

Yep, but CS2 works as far as I remember. Go to the WineHQ (if you haven't been there already).

Haven't made it there yet, but that's on my list of stuff to do.

  Whut's the problem? If you can't make it work (I'm surprised), you can always use Opera.

The problem was that something was blocking flash apps from running, flash websites worked, but the apps were blocked. Took about a day to figure out that stupid thing, but now that that works, I can move onto issue #2...

You mean your LAN or what?

Which is problem #2... I backed up a bunch of stuff to my server 2003 machine and well... Fedora doesn't yet recognize the network. I've only ever networked windows machines, so I'm a bit lost as to where I need to start. I have Samba installed, I'm just not sure what to actually do with it. I ran out of time over the weekend to tinker with it, so tonight's project is trying to get back on the LAN.