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Oh yeah, I notcied the other day that although importing an old game forces an all-room recompile, using an old template DOESN'T, even though its effectively the same issue...

Did you import befoer you switched to 16-bit?

Also, clicks usually register on MouseUp

Germany will win, and I support Spain, and whoever England are playing 

Looks excellent! Good work, besh!

Well, in http://ssh.me.uk/cancel.zip you can click on the coloured bits at each end with the "interact" cursor and the following happens:

a) if you click away the "Doing" message, roger cancels his walk and says "Done", i.e. finishes the script
b) if you wait until he starts moving then click, he stops and doesn't say "Done"
c) if you set walkto points on the hotspots and then click to cancel, he doesn't even say "doing"

Why not just load the text doc in AGS? It coudl even be encrytped if you like, using the EncryptedFile module. With a bit of coding, you could probably even append the text files to the end of the AGS executable and extratc them, , if you dont want other files lying aroudn the game directory.

(source: Wikipedia)

So it must be true and totally unbiased! 

More on social engineering: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32311

er, your code snippet doesn't have matching brackets or quotes...

i assume that was just a cut-and-paste thing.

Is there a reason why you can't do:

AddText(String.Format("%s%s", "Very long string 1", "Very long string 2"));

Firefox users: want to add a search plugin for the forums and/or wiki?

I've created some that you can use, on my site

Well, despite repeated warnings from all quarters to:

* not open email attachments you're not expecting
* check that the address that a link goes to is correct
* check for the padlock icon when accessing a site that takes a password or other confidential info
* don't accept self-signed SSL certificates

People still do silly things. All the time.

See: http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~rachna/papers/why_phishing_works.pdf

CJ's already confessed, however, that the whole interaction editor is a pain in his mush-esteemed posterior and is unlikely to get much maintainance

Actually, I think a lot of malware these days uses social engineering to a greater or lesser extent, and so the attitude of "I dont use MS therefore I'm invulnerable" is very dangerous.

I wondered if it would be safe to create code like this:

Code: ags

int storebutton;
int count;

function repeatedly_execute_always() {
	if  (count>1) count--;
	if (count==1 && (mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseRight) || mouse.IsButtonDown(eMouseLeft)) && player.Moving) {
	  player.StopMoving(); // Cancel wahtever blocking action was going on
	}
}


function on_mouse_click(MouseButton button) {
  storebutton=button;
  count=15;
}

Why wouldn't it be? Well, if you had an interaction that did:

Code: ags

function hotspot1_a() {
  // script for Hotspot 1 (Hotspot 1): Interact hotspot
  player.Walk(hotspot[1].WalkToX, hotspot[1].WalkToY, eBlock);
  player.Say("Done");
}

then stopping the character walkign in rep_ex_always will leave the Say function never called. Does AGS build up some stack of "hung functions" when you do this, or does it just give up on them? Becasue it seems to work in a quick test (i.e. clicking during blocking stops the action) but maybe after 100 or 1000 cancelled walks, it would die?

There is already the advanced window... its called "the script editor"

F1 gives you AGS help, but anyway...

This was a bug in certain AGS versions (or rather a bug in the way AGS and certain video cards interacted which works fine on older machines) , but I can't remember which version. If you're using 2.7, try 2.71, or if you're using 2.71, try the 2.72 beta.

Heh, my daughter self-censors...

Whenever any TV programme has any form of peril (in her case, she doesn't even like "the bad guy" appearing on screen at all, even if he's not doing anything) she says "I think I've been watching too much TV, can we turn it off?"

Strangely, she doesn't mind it so much if we read her a story. So she can't watch Cinderella, as she gets upset whenever the stepmother or steopsisters appear, but she can listen to the story quite happily.

I think at 3 and half years old she's not quite ready to see The Omen, or Basic Instinct...

Almost everything?

Try the thing you didn't try yet! 

If any application in windows is not the focussed one, you'll have to click on it to use it.

And don't double-post, please. I suggest reading the Sticky threads at the top of this forum...

Have you created a walkable area, and is roger on it?