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Since I got my new car, I can claim maximum gayness:

Since CJ didn't include any such source code in any AGS release, I think its safe to assume that he didn't change anything, either.

Did you set Description.NoDescriptionWhenMode to eModeWait?

As for the inv descriptions, you'll have to use GUI rather than overlay mode of the Description module, and set the Z order of the GUI you use for descriptions to be higher than that of the inv GUI.

I don't think that notepad fixes as many things, e.g. it doesn't do smart quotes.

Well, it would be great if Strings were first-class objects and you could do

String fred="Hello".Append(" there!");

In fact, just replace the script language with python

Nice of you to wait less that 48 hours. Did you even check the Hints and Tips forum?

The problem is that all your characters are of type Character, not of type EnhancedCharacter ...

Simply having an adult present doesn't stop kids from banging their heads on things, believe me... and since they were checking on them every half-hour or so, the police would never have got involved if there was any kind of accident. I presume they didn't leave any sharp objects lying around the room.

On the other hand, I'd never leave my girls alone when they are asleep, because if they woke up and no-one was there, they'd be terrified.

If they'd had a baby listener running, it all would have been so much better. But what would be the point of prosecuting the parents? They sure as heck aren't going to leave their other kids alone ever again.

I stole a cherry candy from a store at age 8, should I die?

Not for that reason... but perhaps for not being able to quote people properly...

How many of these children would have been found by now if the police weren't all concentrating on one child in particular?

Don't confuse the police with the media

I spotted a bug... it should be "Who killed whom"

So THATS where Beyond Reality came from?

Can't we have bluecup instead?

Also, m0dsy: Did it not occur to you that the "Spider-pig" thing might be to the tune of, you know, the old Spider-man theme rather than some British kids TV show that about 20 people have heard of?

Don't be ridiculous, VWG, just look at the completely different lyrics:

Spiderpig, Spiderpig
Does whatever a spiderpig does
Can he swing from a web?
No, he can't because he's a pig
Look out! Its a spiderpig!

Spiderman, Spiderman,
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves just like flies
Look Out! Here comes the Spiderman.

AGA's only a virgin to his own species

http://americangirlscouts.org/agswiki/AGS_Version_history

Some people like to write out dialogues or even scripts in MS Word. Also, if you use Outlook, it may use Word as your email editor, if you email anyone any scripts. By default, Word very helpfully changes all your quote to smartquotes, hyphens to m-dashes, etc. which is great and looks nice until you paste it into an AGS script, where it causes havoc. You can turn of this feature under Tools->AutoCorrect options but it can be useful sometimes.

What to do?

Well, dump your AGS script to a file, download mswordfix.exe and then drag-and-drop the dumped file onto the exe. It will rename the old file as .bak and create a new one with the same name with the funny chars (mainly - no guarantee!) fixed. Reimport the dump file and Bob's your uncle's special friend.

Thanks to DeMoronizer and Perl2Exe for their help!

I thought about writing a python/pygame library that parallelled all the function names etc. in existing AGS scripty, which probably wouldn't be too hard, but there's a lot more to AGS than that.


Perhaps if Chris is going to re-write the compiler, we cna get him to use python syntax

Have your main meal in the middle of the day so that you don't laze around of an evening with a bunch of unburnt calories in your stomach.

Can I just ask: do you not believe there is a God, or do you believe there is not a God?