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I have read posts where people have been unwell and thought...

lol I thought it is about help with game-making and such .

We could PM Him or Her with problems, maybe pics (If needed), and they could guide us as to what treatment, if any, is needed.

I see no actual advantages compared to doing this on forum, but few serious disadvantages.
1) Person could get busy and won't answer for a long time;
2) Person will have to handle indefinite number of random PMs... alone? omg
3) Only one opinion.
4) A reason why I personally never liked explaining technical questions by PM (and why this is, probably, disliked by some others, I guess): in PM you have to answer same question to every person who asks. On forums there's at least probability that more people will find the answer useful.

Yes, according to engine code, in AGS 3.2.1 $SAVEGAMEDIR$ and $APPDATADIR$ are supported only by 1) File object 2) ListBox (to fill in directory contents).

What I was trying to say (In my rather poor English) is that it could be nice to have an autosave function integrated in the 3.3.0 version
This, in theory, should make game experience more streamlined, but don't confuse with simple

There's SetRestartPoint and RestartGame functions that allow to make self-overwriting autosave.

I took it out of rep exe always and put it in a room load and its working..

Well, this means you started the animation over and over again, so it never went further first or second frame. (Just commenting)

Let's hope that in AGS 3.3.0 this feature could be implemented

What feature? 

If there's a bug, it would really help to have more details on it, because the engine code is big and I doubt we will find the possible root of problem easily without known steps to reproduce it or a crash dump.
Well, ofc, I cannot force you on doing that .

There's a limit to 15 buttons animated simultaneously. How many buttons do you animate?
Strangely, I cannot find this information in the manual... is there? Hmm...

EDIT: Iv'e just spotted 2 buttons with id 0.......

Gui controls are numbered relative to gui (meaning - every gui has control ids start with 0). Are those buttons on same gui or on different?

If the game crashes with an exception, this means there's a bug in AGS, not your script.

Unfortunately we cannot use the crash dump if the game is compiled by any previous version of AGS, because... well, I explained it here, its purely technical: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=47162.0

How easy it is to reproduce this bug? I don't want to ask you to do this if it happens like once in a month.
Is it possible for you to make a backup copy of your game and try out the AGS 3.3.0 beta to compile and run it? That way we could use the crash dumps and check what happens.

I must make a confession. I am very scared by MLP fans. I cannot understand why grown up people keep watching this, why they put those ponies on their avatars, draw them.

This instills me with fear. Real fear. No, it is not the hypocritic fear for those people's minds or maturity, or similar bullshit.

It is some kind of Lovecraftian fear. Like the fear of some dark entity, something beyond human understanding.

I too think it's a bit strange. I am going to check the engine code more. I am not sure why setting gui property is counted as blocking in this case.

Manual sais:

SkipUntilCharacterStops(CHARID)

Skips through the game until the specified character stops walking, a blocking script runs, or a message box is displayed.

I put few random math operations (like int a = 10 + 10) into repeatedly_execute and that seem to work fine.
Then I made gui toggle its visibility off and on there, and skip stopped working.

*GASP*

Chzo Myths, the Movie.

I don't know how I can choose my renderer to run the game. The winsetup doesn't offer this option.

Right, that's because these are old games which did not have this option. It might use DirectDraw then.
It is known that DirectDraw causes problems on Windows 7 sometimes. Did you try running any newer games? You could check just any random game from the games page made recently, here's Picks of The Months for example: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/picks/ (all are free to download)
It would be interesting to know if they will run with or without this problem if you choose "Direct3D 9" renderer in setup.

By the way, if you are making your own game in AGS 3 this option  will be available for you too. Just build the game with "Build" -> "Build EXE" then configure "Build" -> "Run game setup". The renderer option is a drop-down list in the top-left corner of setup window.

Does this happen with literally any AGS game? How many did you try? Maybe there's something in common with them.
What is your OS? What renderer do you choose to run the game: DirectDraw 5 or Direct3D 9?

Phemar, since we have so many versions of AGS, including versions in development, please state which version you are using.

(And I am asking this to anyone reading this: if you are going to report a bug, first thing tell which version of AGS you are using, so that we will at least know where to start looking).

Second question, where do you call SkipUntilCharacterStops from?

I remember there was very similar problem reported about a month or so ago. That time it appeared that the savegame folder (or its contents) was tagged as "Read-only" for some reason.

The game saves should be located at C:/Users/<Your username>/Saved Games/<Name of the game>/.
I think its worth checking that neither folder nor any of the files there have "read-only" attribute.

E: lol that was exactly the solution Khris gave a link to. Err, well.

Heh, sorry for the delay. Yes, that is Conan The Barbarian.

Err, who was the first? Gribbler explicitly named it but Anian pointed to the movie scenes...

AGS don't automatically convert between integer and float variables. You should use functions FloatToInt and IntToFloat to make them work together.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/wiki/Maths_functions_and_properties#FloatToInt

This.

I think that may be "Antichrist".