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Here's a spam I got recently that escaped SpamAssassin's clutches, but it's the funniest Spam I got ever. I don't want to risk visiting their site in case of the normal spy/malware but does anyone know if this is for real?

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Quotes

I had a similar problem with my scanner for ages. Then I reliased that it's power cable wasn't plugged in

I haven´t met M0ds, I just listen him once by telephone

Couldn't get a word in edgeways, eh?  

Obviousamente, mi hija habla español tambien, pero no save muchos palabras (e.g. babababbababba y aaaaaahahhahahahh).  Intentando enseñarle esta frase: "Papa tiene siempre razon", pero Marian (mi esposa) no se gusta..  

AH, I see.

Well, one possibility is to let it drop out of the dialog completely, having set some global variable and then check that global variable after you call the original dialog.

Is that clear?

e.g.

RunDialog(1); // this is your dialog which calls the run-script 2
if (GetGlobalInt(77)==1) {
RunDialog(9);
} else if (GetGlobalInt(77)==2) {
RunDialog(10);
}

and then your dialog_request has:
SetGlobalInt(77, whatever_is_appropriate);
StopDialog();

Although this is pretty unwieldy!


Alterntaively, merge your two alternative dialogs into one and then use your run-script to turn off the wrong set of options and turn on the correct ones...?

I used run-script 2 in one of my dialogs. In the script I called another dialog with Run-dialog 11.

Is that the last thing in the script? WHy not just let it return to the dialog script and do an:

goto-dialog 11

straight after your run-script 2

Teh Quake 3 !!!1!1!111

Hola La Lore,

Bienvenido a AGS, el mejor sistema de juegos de adventura del mundo... hablo un poco de espanol, y mi esposa es espanola.

Mi consejo es subsistencia lejos de m0ds y de DGMacphee: ¡son apuro!

Ay va la leche!

CJ,

If the help file is the only source, do you have an uncompiled version that I can parse to strip them out, please?

Cheers,

SO that all can benefit, I'll put the response here:

OK, assuming that static is ocrrect about there being a 30-char-or-so limit on hotspot names, we can use the new properties feature of AGS 2.56 to worka round this.

First, you need to set up a string property on all your hotspots with the name you want to display. Secondly, you can no-longer use the @OVERHOTSPOT@ text in your dialog. You need to script things up with:

1. Get the GUI number and object number of your textbox where you want the info to appear
2. Add this into your repeatedly_execute:
SetTextBoxText(guino, objno,  GetHotspotPropertyText(GetHotspotAt(mouse.x,mouse.y)));
3. If you want this to work with objects and characters too, you'll need somehting like this, substituting GetHotspot with GetCharcter/Object, etc.

if (GetLocationType(mouse.x,mouse.y)==1) {
 // hotspot
} else if (GetLocationType(mouse.x,mouse.y)==2) {
 // character
} else if (GetLocationType(mouse.x,mouse.y)==3) {
// object
}

Hope this helps!

ObjectOn?

Also, make sure that the baselines are set correctly for wardrobe and your new object

However, the AnimateObject function isn't blocking. So, if you want that move to happen after the first two object animations are complete, then you need to use AnimateObjectEx with the blocking parameter set to 1.

For those of us who find it helpful to dump everything in a file sometimes and edit it outside AGS, would anyone else appreciate an emacs mode for AGS editing? Emacs is an editor, for the ignorant amongst you. ANy suggestions for features?

On a related note, does CJ or anyone else have a text file list of all Script  Keywords and Built-in functions that I can have? Maybe CJ could include this with all main releases as an extra download? This would let me do syntax highlighting more easily.

Finally, the function name completion is great in the built-in editor, I just wish it wouldn't do it when editing dialogs, too. Grrr.

* SSH increases Captain Mostly's medication

All that is required for evil to prevail is that good people do nothing.

You could put something in the global repeatedly_execute:

if (GetLocationType(mouse.x,mouse.y)==1) {
   SetCursorMode (your_hotspot_cursor_no_here);
} else {
   SetCursorMode (your_normal_cursor_here);
}

or you could even do more whizzy stuff with

GetHotspotProperty(GetHotspotAt(mouse.x,mouse.y))
and
GetObjectAt and GetCharacterAt, etc..

This reminds me of:

http://www.g0akh.gothere.uk.com/ISIHAC/Book_Club_Page.htm

Why not get CJ to set up some referral thingies so that whenever we buy from Amazon, etc. he gets 2p or whatever their rate is... I'd do it!

You need to make sure that you don't place the player in the new room on top of a change room hotspot: otherwise they may instantly come back to where they came from. You can work around this by using regions instead of hotspots and a global integer which is set on entering a room and cleared by walking off a region and then only do the change room interactions if the global int is cleared...

What are you using it for? You may be able to use the new "properties" feature of AGS 2.56 to have a long striung associated with an object when it is officially released (any day now) or get the pre-release version off the sticky post in the Tech Forum.