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Heh, funnily enough I have a job interview at a company who does this on Tuesday, so I might implement a codec sometime soon, albeit in hardware. Anyway, H264 is the best compression, I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264

If you're using the original script with v2.7 or later, you'll need to make sure the  "Enforce object based scripting" setting on the General setting page of the editor is OFF

Did you export the functions and import them in the script header?

Trisk, new AGS 2.71RC4 should have fixed the savegame bug... try recompiling!

[talkie]

The aafiles archive doesn't have the talkie of Hooky McPegLeg, Pirate Postman by gorgeous Grundislav... if anyone can provide it, pleeeese say so!

N.B. TALKIE version.

The error reported by Snake Blisken in my Zoom module threadÃ,  ( http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=23664.0Ã,  ) is wierd: I can't see anything in the 2.71 changelog that would cause the problems he sees. However, it would be nice to have a mechanism whereby a module can specify a minimum AGS version required for its use...

I'd also like to mention that this BETA is actually more stable, it seems than the 2.70 final, so maybe its time to get this mutha on the road...

I send my requests to the Reyes Magos, not Santa... Ã, 

32" Widescreen LCD DV ready
DVD Recorder
Time to make AGS games
Both children sleeping through the night, every night

SSH, Helm is basically saying that he wants to able to fully evaluate his own self, in a Jungian fashion, partly to achieve complete control of his subconciousness, and in extension to experience the only relgious experience you can experience without being conventionally religious.
Of course, this practice requires a strong psyche, which is why he also asks for a hardening of the tool which is also his monitor.

You could do Sir Humphrey's job 

btw: Hardening of the TOOL, fnar fnar!

Unrealistic goal: understand what Helm said 

You can have 2D arrays of ints and 3D arrays of chars (kinda) in AGS:

struct 2d_type {
  int y [100];
}

2d_type x[100];

x[23].y[56]=1;

AND:

struct 3d_type {
  String s [100];
}

3d_type a[100];

a[4].s[67]="ABCDEFG";
if (a[4].s[67].Chars[3]==64) //....

Changing the module to use repeatedly_execute_always now allows you to do:

while (Zoom.zoomdone()==0) {
  Wait(1);
}

Here is some code I have tested, with rep_ex_always in the module:

Code: ags

// room script file

#sectionstart room_a  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE
function room_a() {
  // script for Room: Player enters room (before fadein)
  RawClearScreen(0);
  Zoom.zoom(6, 1.015, 1.0, 10.0, 0, 0, 200, 80);
  
}
#sectionend room_a  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE

#sectionstart room_b  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE
function room_b() {
  // script for Room: Player enters room (after fadein)
  while (Zoom.zoomdone()==0) {
    Wait(1);
  }
  Display("Tada!");
  
}
#sectionend room_b  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE

Also, I uploaded the new module (see edit in top post)

Speaking as an experienced professional programmer the phrase "I only changed the one thing" never fills me with confidence 

[have]

I have made a module for this. I tried to get hold of Scorp to check if it was OK to release, but he's not been around for a whuile, so I'll keep this low-key a release until I hear from him. Anyway, you can

download SSH's module here (Requires AGS 2.71!)
Mirror

and it is nearly backwards compatible with the existing code. I changed the Delay directive to qDelay, so as not to clash with other module that might use such a common word. I also added qSetGlobalInt and qAddScore directives that work in the same way as Delay. Finally, I added the ability to use subtitles along with the speech, for whatever someone might want that for...

If she boils your pet rabbit, its time to split up...

but seriously, would she consider living in an apartment more suited to your needs in accomodation? If its just that you dont liek houses (and my wife has the opposite thing and hates flats) then maybe this would be the best of both worlds? Of course, maybe you dont want that either, so just an idea...

Voting time is up and its tied between me and Babar. Since I don't really want to think of another theme for the next competition and arguably had an advantage since I set the rules myself and changed my code after the deadline, I think that BABAR is the winner! Congratulations, and feel free to set up the next coding comp...

Or read the part of the help file that says "Distributing your game..."  :

Excellent, Zor! I'm really glad you're going to do that. Kudos to you.

I vote Jet for capturing Eggie in glorious ASCIIness

Have you fully read both sides of the discussion above? It seems to me that so far everyone has agreed that it is not an idea, but rather a proven historical fact.

That doesn't mean its right. At one point everybody thought the sun revolved around the earth.

It is a historical fact, for example, that Constantine was not trying to supplant, but rather assimilate.

Then if its a fact you won't have a problem quoting documentary evidence.

Here's some facts:

The celebration date of Good Friday and the Ressurrection was debated by Polycarp and some other guy long before Constantine came along

The word for Easter in every langauge except English and German is based on the Jewish word for Passover, NOT on Eostre (which is all down to Bede's supposition). At best, any connection between Ishtar and Easter is geographically and linguistically distant, and tangential.

Of COURSE the date is astrological. Days are astrological. Years are astrological. Months are astrological!

Some further thoughts:

If you want a module to call a user-defined function, how about making a default function in your module but surrounded by:

#ifndef CUSTOM_FUNCTION
#endif

then the user can put their own function in an earlier module and put in a #define to override your module's function.

This could also allow some of a module to be source-protected but some editable...

And finally, I think that the MIT licence is better for AGS modules that LGPL, after some thought:

Code: ags

// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to 
// deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
// rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
// sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 
// all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL 
// THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING 
// FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER 
// DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The idea that just because some Christian festivals have their dates on a certain day that pagan or other festivals used to happen means that they are stolen is just silly. You might as well say the my celebration of my own birthday is just a usurpation of the ancient holy celebrations of Joan of Arc, Sun Myung Moon or Rowan Atkinson's birthdays. Or Epiphany.

Of course, when it comes to ratings battles, people make sure their big guns are head-to-head... so Christians had their festivals at the same times as the ones they were trying to supplant. That doesn't mean the whole festival is the same.