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When the mouse is over a dialog option, the highlighting colour is yellow.
I noticed that it is possible to change the colour if you use a text window instead of a normal GUI, but text windows are always centered.

What I'd like are my dialog options at the bottom of the screen, but with a different colour for the item which the mouse is over.

Is there any variable I have missed or is this simply not doable? (without making my own dialog system)

Hey y'all. I've been working on a help screen to go with my game.
I was going for a loose & chaotic look. But is it funny chaotic or confusingly chaotic?



If you click the button in the top-right you'll get the next screen:



The coloured lines are meant to resemble a marker pen.
I've been told my choice of colours is generally bad, so if you could tell me what you think about them, it'd be real helpful.
(Also, any criticism about my custom-coloured LucasArts style GUI is also welcome.)

Hm, I got this error on startup (see below).
And I have been able to reproduce it:  I started up AGS, minimized it and then ran something in full screen in WinXP (in my case ScummVM).
I shut down AGS while it is still minimized (by rightclicking it on the taskbar).
Then I get this error when opening AGS again:


Error: SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width - Panel2MinSize.
Version: AGS 3.0.2.43

System.InvalidOperationException: SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width - Panel2MinSize.
   at System.Windows.Forms.SplitContainer.set_SplitterDistance(Int32 value)
   at AGS.Editor.frmMain.frmMain_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

[Rules:]

Anyone going to Lowlands* next week? (I'm not )
But you can still make me feel like I was there, by writing me some rock 'n roll! Woo!
(With Rock 'n roll I also mean the styles it spawned: hardrock, alt.rock, punkrock / grunge.)

Rules:
- No rules!
- Ok, one rule: enter before 5 september. After that there's two days of voting.


We'll skip the uploading anonymously part and post right into this thread, ok? The next host can decide if s/he brings it back.

* Lowlands is the second biggest festival in the Netherlands

text_speed_modifier is in the dropdownbox, but it's not in the manual.

[Erotic]

Last time winner Bartimeus was unable to host, and number two Jens couldn't be reached, so Viking ended up with me (barely number three).


The theme this time is Erotic !

My eyes were fixed on her the moment she walked into my office, all feminine and full of curves.
She had eyes you could drown in, legs you'd like to suck on for a while and a bra that was struggling under its load.
With a dark, seductive voice, she said: "You must be Mr.Bogard?"
"Please," I said, "call me Horny. Um...I mean Johnny."


Write some sensual music that would go well with the scene above.
No limit on the length.


Rules:

• Upload your entry anonymously to Box.net or some other public file sharing site
• PM the link to your entry to me (with your username as subject), I'll update the first post with the entries

• Voting starts at july 14 GMT 0:00, after which no entries can be submitted
• Anyone can vote
• Voting will end on July 16 at GMT 0:00

• Top entries will be awarded a Sexy Saxophone:

     


Entries:

• #1  Erotic
• #2  Dangerous Seduction
• #3  Please I Said
• #4  Lola
• #5  Moment of Delight

[FORTNIGHTLY WRITING COMPETITION]

It's the first, the one, the only: FORTNIGHTLY WRITING COMPETITION (drumroll)

RULES:

- Write a story of around 200-350 words on the subject of The Beach
- Entries must be in before 24 May
- Post your entries (or link to your entry) in this thread
- Voting will take place on 24-25 May
- The winner sets the subject for the next competition and starts the next competition
- Top three entries will get a title (the writers equivalent of a trophy)

Happy writing!


VOTING'S ON:

Everyone gets two votes. Explain why you liked those entries.
Giving comments on other entries is encouraged
Voting end monday morning


The top three entrants will be awarded the
“Order of the Big Blue Pencil” 

The first runner up will in addition receive the title
“Hero of the Big Blue Pencil”


and the winner will be awarded the title
“Champion of the Big Blue Pencil”


Oh, and btw: there are small, insignificant trophies which come with these grand, prestigious titles:
      

What I want is a button on a gui which can be clicked even when a dialog is being run.
Anybody know if this is possible while still using the dialog system?

Ok, there's a game I've played years ago, which I'd like to find again.

Unfortunately, I can't remember much about it.

It was a first person adventure game. And think it was from 1991-1993. I don't think there was an inventory, and it probably was 256 colours (or 16 colours but really tastefully done).
It wasn't futuristic, though it might have been in some near-future dystopia.

You're a detective and there's been a murder in a bar. I remember a talk with a police officer who didn't like you. By talking to people you get clues (dialogs are presented in the same way AGS / LucasArts does).
To proceed in the game you have to question all the characters about the other characters by typing single words in an input box, usually a last name or the name of a place. The game doesn't remember these clues so you have to write them down. I remember jotting down 2 A4-sized papers full of notes.
I think one of the important clues was the word OVERKILL or some word ending on KILL which was a secret government project or something like that.

Looking on Home of the Underdogs I found a game called J.B. Harold in: Murder Club which bears a lot of similarity to it, but it's not the same game.

Ok, I know this wasn't a lot of information, to put it mildly, and I'm probably clutching on to straws, but does anyone have a clue what this game could be?