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I'm designing a text-based (non-graphical) game, and found the above "quicky" script quite helpful (with a few modifications, of course).

My problem: I've discovered that I'm currently limited to displaying only 16 lines at a time, meaning only 15 inventory items would be visible, unless I changed the font or otherwise did something undesirable.

Is there a relatively simple way to space the list into two separate columns?

Here's what I'm looking at:

Code: ags

function show_inventory () {
	String inventoryListing = "You are carrying:";
	int i = 0;
	int inventoryCount = 0;
	while(i<Game.InventoryItemCount) {
		i++;
		if(player.InventoryQuantity[i]>0) {
			inventoryListing = inventoryListing.Append(String.Format("[ - %s",inventory[i].Name));
			inventoryCount++;
		}
	}
	if(inventoryCount>0) {
	  roomText.Text = inventoryListing;
	} else {
		roomText.Text = Game.GlobalMessages[996];
	}
}

[download it here]

It seems that the download link in the first post is no longer working.  Of course, I didn't bump this thread just to say that...

For the benefit of anyone else who happens to be searching the forums for a text parser module and stumbles upon this thread, I found another copy of this template (version 2.0, yes). You can download it here