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I'd suggest perhaps talking to AGA and hajo about alternate hosting providers given the  info matt points to..

Eat red meat and spinach!

What objects, characters and views have you added recently? I bet one of them has the same name as some built-in AGS thing, or has a semi-colon in it or something. Have you anything called "Ring", or with "Ring" in its title? try deleting its name and re-typing it without any odd characters.

Here's some Scottish poetry (but in normal English, mainly): http://www.rampantscotland.com/poetry/blpoems_keepsake.htm
http://www.rampantscotland.com/poetry/blpoems_wisdom.htm
http://www.spl.org.uk/best-poems/whyte.htm


Or Ludovic Janvier's Smile:

Slowly, you breathe in everything about sleeping beauty
but a passerby makes you turn round torn
suddenly by this unexpected smile
surging from their childhood in memory of who knows what
a smile softly grazing the skin shifting like shadow
offered to and then withdrawn from everyone walking by

ever since you could walk and remember you're seeking
the forgotten angel the angel announced by this mouth and that
the sum of loved faces whose sad musical caress has brusquely
come and gone to bury itself forever in the hectic pace of things
after briefly quoting this mysterious smile from once upon a time


Jacques Rancourt Thread of Horizon:

On this
single
thread of horizon
on this night of the horizon
the full moon bounces itself like a ball
there is the light of a heavy day
which evaporates in the blackened air

On this blade of horizon
will perish
the large debates of the little day
the short term notions that follow a lie down
there is the line of the shoulders
that exults in such peace
there is the bottom of the heart
which clears out its clinker

Onto this arch of horizon
is being grafted
the attenuated tissue of the stars
the universe itself
begins here
in this partly perfect light
the heart crackling
under the line of the shoulders
the line of the shoulders
swaying
on the axis of its galaxy

My kids love all the Flash games (some of which are educational) that you get at nickjr.com, bbc.co.uk/cbeebies and http://disney.go.com/playhouse/today/index.html (in fact, you can see their home page at http://www.little-flower.co.uk/games.html)

For kids under 5, their first games are really just teaching them to use a mouse, but then they move to matching games, etc.

Yeah, but I said it better

Fill out stopbadware's review request from, Dave, http://www.stopbadware.org/home/review and they'll tell you what they think anything is wrong, which should make it easier to tarck down the problem (if one exists).

Personally, I prefer Princess Marian and the magic hat...

It would be good to have a place to add links to external review sites, too

Christopher Tolkien was close to his father's writing, as letters between them show. If anyone has the authority to complete a Tolkien story (definitely a valid question), it's him.

Indeed, CT was a member of The Inklings and heard many of the Middle Earth stories from the very beginning, before they were published (as did CS Lewis, etc).

@Gilbot : That's it. Thank you!

It's impossible to use struct's as parameter?

Yes, but...

Code: ags

struct door {
  bool door_open;
  int  door_object;
  int  door_hotspot;
  int  door_area;
  import function open();
};

function door::open()
{
  this.door_open = true;
  object[this.door_object].Visible = false; // object image of closed door
  hotspot[this.door_hotspot].Enabled = true; // hotspot of opened door
  RestoreWalkableArea(this.door_area); // walkable area from door into the room
}

Oh, I see... well, you could perhaps still do it through the wiki, though: some kind of template

Well, the Wiki category exists, so really any new modules should get their own wiki page and then have the category added: http://americangirlscouts.org/agswiki/Category:Modules

But it is enough to stop the casual thief, and no-one has written an AGS decompiler, so

There are hundreds of examples of example AGS code: check out the Wiki page on open source games, plus loads of code snippets here. AGS does not have a problem with support or learning curve.

Copyright has protected authors for hundreds of years but the problem with all of these "protections" is that you need to pay a lawyer to enforce them. CJ and most other developers here can't afford it and wouldn't want the bother even if they did, so security through obscurity does work here.


Also, I have tried the latest alpha and it managed to compile the walkcycle generator which has oodles of modules and exercises lots of AGS, so it seems OK. One thing, though, the import process seemed to delete the "  " (two spaces) text I had set on some of my GUI buttons. Those spaces were there deliberately and AGS seemed to change the text to blank: I had to change them back.


On an entirely unrelated note, now I am an ISEB certified tester, I can say that this is NOT an alpha release but a beta, because alphas are releases that are tested at the "vendor's" site and CJ certainly didn't invite ME round to his pad

Anything that is in a big nested loop is more likely to affect your repeatedly_execute code. If all you've got is a sequence of if..thens, you'll be fine

Try NHS Direct? http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk or 0845 4647

You may be able to use the on_event with event eEventGUIMouseUp (yes, not down... a click finishes on the up) to detect when someone clicks there... you'll also need to do if (GUIControl.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y)==YOUR_INV_WINDOW_CONTROL_NAME) ...

Yeah, its a bit wierd how AGS handles clicks like that. Ultimately, you can check the mouse button status and the GUI at the current X, Y and work things out from there...

Perhaps the price will come down closer to the date when they realise only Randy, Howard, Scott, Al and Jane are coming... or maybe they'll just cancel the whole thing.

Can you try the latest version with whatever it was you found the problem with, strazer, to make sure I fixed it right, please?