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it's not even on radio!

Yes  it is/was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/fivelive.shtml

In my experience, #ags is the best place to get help in any aspect of a game

I included this in one of my modules, probably Credits...

He is very protective of her, treats her like the daughter he never had.

Thats the missing info! It sounded like he was her current boyfreind before you said that

Um, the story doesn't quite make sense... i thin you missed a bit out. Who is this chef guy who suddenly turns up in the middle?

Since Microsoft have just said that they won't fix the huge security holes in 95/98/ME and those platforms are now open season for hackers, anyoen with one of those machine will have bigger problems than not beign able to play a particular AGS game...

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro!

There are links to two different versions of the plugin in the top post, are you sure you got the newest one?

Well since v2.0 doesnt work with 2.71 or later (and he's using the 2.72 beta) then he's buggered anyway

That was uber-awesome!

* SSH  nominates Ali for an oscar

Gilbert, did you read this:  :

Just want to point it out once more that the last version of plugin doesn't require the "alleg40.dll" file so you may safely remove it from your game's folder *unless*, of course, there is another plugin using that library.

Would you walk into a bar, and start a conversation with a girl about your bowel movements?

No, but I have had conversations with other parents about my children's bowel movements...

How about "ass"?  An "ass" is, simply put, a burro or donkey.  Somewhere along the line, "ass" became where "shit" comes from.  Your butt.  Bunghole.  Poopchute.  Balloon knot.  Take my example from "shit", and replace "bowel movements" with "cornhole".

Actually, ass is just a bowdlerised American euphamism for the word "arse", meaning the buttocks.

A "bitch" is a female dog.  Somewhere along the line, this became an insulting way to describe or refer to a woman, by calling her a female dog.

In Italy and Spain it pretty much just means "prostitute" when applied to a woman.

"Damn" is used to describe someone who is going to "hell" when they die, I believe.  I guess it's only frowned upon because only the man upstairs knows who is and who isn't going to "hell".

"Damn" on its own is usually just an abbreviation of a phrase like "God damn you", so its all the commandment stuff.

Its funny how "crap" is more acceptable that "shit" and "do the horizontal tango" is more acceptable than "fuck" and "derriere" more acceptable than "arsehole" and "lady lumps" more acceptable than "tits" and "kebab" more acceptable than "cunt". THEY MEAN THE SAME THING!

So, I say: drop all the fornicating doo-doo and speak plainly, you oedipal self-abusers 

Due to the previous ease of cheating ratings, please don't take any position in the table as definitive. Also, people vote silly anyway, even without cheating: For example: the FOY rolling demo rates ABOVE the proper demo! D'oh!

And Steve, I'll do that for the next version but unfortunately I forgot to write that info out while collecting and I'm not going to run it again just yet...

As long as it doesn't turn into a dressing-up competition...  :

Nah, I had a PHP script use cURL to collect the info, parse it and write to a CSV file which I read into Excel then found a javascript on the web that would let you click on column headings to sort by them. but the PHP takes ages to run, so I'm not going to have it dynamically update: I'll just run it when I feel like it...

[Qualifying users rated this game at 56%]

We could learn something from the IMDB, who have various policies on voting. For example we could have only votes counting from members that met the following criteria, other votes would be stored and would become valid later if that member subsequently met the criteria...

1. Must have been forum member for at least 1 month
2. Must have voted for games by at least 3 different authors
3. Must have voted for a game in the last year

Also, imdb has an algorithm for calculating the weighted vote of movies so that movies that have more votes can deviate further from the average vote for a movie, i.e. a game that has a few votes and is bad is probably not as bad as a game that has lots of votes and is bad. Similarly, with good games, a game is rated better for the same actual mean vote if the number of votes is higher...

And like amazon you can have "did you find this review helpful" and rate the raters, etc. as other have said, and incorporate that into the voting, too. In fact, you coudl have somethign that says:

Unregistered users rated this game at 99%
Registered users rated this game at 86%
Qualifying users rated this game at 56%
Expert users rated this game at 52%

Qualifying being those meeting cirteria like those I said above, and that woudl be the "headline" rating. This coudl allow games trhat dont have enough votes of certain types to stil have an indicator.

In unrelated news, I foudn that games that don't have enough votes can still have their "detailed voting" displayed:  http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=votedetail&game=479

Since CJ doesn't want to do this, by the magic of curl...

The AGS Games, by rating. However, its not updated so this is the ratings as of yesterday. Also, as you will recall, CJ has now made that only forum members can vote as some games had been artifically pumped up the rankings. I think you can plainly see which ones...

functions that take parameters can't be "pathed" like that, unfortunately, so GG's second script is nearly correct:

Code: ags

Hotspot *myhotspot = Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(mouse.x, mouse.y);
int myval = 0;
if (myhotspot!=null) myval=myhotspot.ID;

Why would you possibly want to not allow digital cameras? The alternative is that photos have been scanned in, which generally leads to a worse result!

I thought when testing your version you had the same problem, but what I found with your example with the "needles" inventory was that you were missing the unhandled function it should read like:

Fixed.

I also found the interactions for the "voodoo doll" example you show doesn't work if other inventory items are used on it. So it's better to use the above example.

Not sure what you mean by this. I didn't change any interactions from the 2.7 template.

Also you might want to comment out the

Code: ags

#define FIRST_INV_SLOT_COORDS

Removed entirely

Code: ags

  if (MainInventory.TopItem > 0){     //if invent. can scroll up 
    gMaingui.Controls[9].AsButton.NormalGraphic=INV_UP_ARROW_ON_SPRITE;
  }
  else //if can not scroll up
    gMaingui.Controls[9].AsButton.NormalGraphic=INV_UP_ARROW_OFF_SPRITE;   
  if (MainInventory.TopItem < MainInventory.ItemCount - (MainInventory.RowCount*MainInventory.ItemsPerRow))   //if invent. can scroll down 
    gMaingui.Controls[10].AsButton.NormalGraphic=INV_DOWN_ARROW_ON_SPRITE;  
  else  // if can not scroll down
    gMaingui.Controls[10].AsButton.NormalGraphic=INV_DOWN_ARROW_OFF_SPRITE;
//-----------------------------------------------------
}

Errr... what was this code for? That's the same as what I have.


Anyway, thanks for the testing!