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Hey lay, you made me post it again!

http://www.villagephotos.com/viewpubimage.asp?id_=8341861

Not an entry, for teh obvious.

Disable sound (for safety, disable both music and voice) via the setup, play past that part, save, you can reenable sound after that.

Just set the repeat parameter to 1.

The REPEAT parameter sets whether the animation will continuously repeat the cycling through the frames. If REPEAT is zero, the animation will start from the first frame of LOOP, and go through each frame in turn until the last frame, where it will stop. If REPEAT is 1, when the last frame is reached, it will go back to the first frame and start over again with the animation. If REPEAT is 2, it will do the animation once, but then return the graphic to the first frame and stop (whereas repeat=0 will leave the graphic on the last frame).

Have you really read the manual?

[Wait(1);]

Why?

I don't quite understand what did you mean by:

I diddn't know if AGS could set a value to be an integer on a parameter.

The only accetable variable types currently are only integers (plus vatiants, like short and char) and strings.

Judging from your code, I think what you're going to do is:
while (tran > 0){
SetCharacterTransparancy(EVIL,tran);
Wait(1);
tran--;
}

This is not a bug, it is a feature.

* Gilbot V7000a actually doesn't know what he's talking about, as he doesn't have a DVD drive and never used PowaDVD.

I think the system is not very stable today, maybe CJ is poor and don't have the money to pay for the services anymore. So anyone who never pays for it should regret and consider doing the good guy a favour.

If you meaned doing this in AGS, it's actually better put  in the beginners' tech forum.

That depends on how you want the effects to be, there're lots of ways, eg.
1. Play a FLIC
2. Play an AVI
3. Use animated bg frames
4. Put the graphics of teh volcano as a character, and use walkable areas to scale it up
5. Try those Raw Draw scaled functions in the new beta.

Maybe it's a fake Qantas site as a lame April F00l joke?



(Or maybe it's the real Qantas site WITH a lame April F00l joke...)

* Gilbot V7000a is upset.

First I found out that I may not really need to pay for AGS (which I did), now I just find out that CAGE had been released.

It's a sad sad day for me.  :'(

* Gilbot V7000a flushes AGS in the toile.

Heh there's nothing called Chinese keyboards, we just use US layout keyboards.

Ctrl/Shift or ALT keys when pressed alone are okay most of the time, it's only troublesome when some of these softwares do things also when they're pressed simultaneously.

* Gilbot V7000a slaps LGM with a big trout.

No, I don't know how to programme for sure, and I don't want to waste my time looking at these huge sources. And I'm never interested in compiling something for window$.

The input method hotkeys can be changed of course, but I just don't want to.

It's just funny that developers did make localization on their softwares but didn't care on some obvious problems on some systems.

Well the good thing about it was that you can quickly draw lines with nearly every drawing tools (I never tried PS, PSP, etc., so I don't know how they work).

The bad thing was that programming using Ctrl, Shift and Alt clashes with the default hot keys for Chinese input methods, so it's REALLY annoying (especially when you need to hold more than one of them simultaneously, eg. when constrainting to aspect ratio).

Wat date? C'mon, we're talking about serious matters!

Why? AGS is going commercial, so the page has to go professional.

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WHAT?

* Gilbot V7000a curses punaman, for cheating him of his money!

There's never a homepage, it's just been launched fresh.

I think many people got it (there're lots of such spams lately, I got exactly the one you're  quoting too).

TODAY, I'll advice you just do what they tell you to, it's good to you.

- it isn't stated in the manual, but am I correct to assume that StrFormat (buf, format_string, buf, var1, var2) works correctly? (the point is using the same string 'buf' in both input and output)

That's not advisable, and will probably cause some undesirable results. In fact, StrFormat is a pass-through to the C sprintf function, whose documentation says "If the strings overlap, the behavior is undefined."
I'll add a note to the manual.

What? Now you tell me it may not work? I had been using this kind of things A LOT and it never failed for me, does thatr mean I have to change all of my codes?

* Gilbot V7000a is having headaches...

If you use irfanview, you can just have it always open, ticked the "always on top" option. And use it to capture the screen whenever, just use the following settings in the capture setup (via pressing C):

Capture area - foreground window
Saving method - Show in window

Then whenever you update the list, just press the capture hotkey (Ctrl-F11 by default) and the captured list will be updated.