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Finally uploaded all my Mittens photos from the Dublin Aftermath.

Clicken Here for Photomagicals!

I had some problems with some of the uploads, but for now some treats I have salvaged from my phone... parental guidance advised (you have been warned).

• Before things start to get messy
  
• Raise the roof
  
• Best friends forever
  
• Popeye
  
• The photo of legends
  
• The best of the rest
  

When I can be bothered I'll sort out the rest.

I found it! The game I was thinking of was called Nightbreed.

It's all coming back now, yea it was based on a film and both scared the living daylights out of me... I must track this film down

Trailer

And now back to the thread

Dreamweb... I think I had that game on an old Amiga. I remember being in a mental institution and escaping via an elevator or something. Driving around in a car to a police road block also sounds familiar but it's gotta be at least 15 years since I played it and I must have been only 8 or 9. I think there was some giant purple monster... am I right, was that game Dreamweb?

(I never really watched the films and so I'm not a fan anyway)

It stopped reading your post at this point 

Haha I did the same and skipped on to reading your post. Brilliant.

Old men down pubs usually have things for sale. Buy them a beer and wink kindly at them from afar. If they beckon you over ask about the dogs.

Great job Creed!

I've mirrored this to allow others to bypass the horrible third party download site and all those tiresome 'please wait to download' timers:

Download Link

I've tried to type my excitement a few times but end up mashing the backspace and trying again so I'll just say this

The Queen Victoria Building in Sydney is nice. Victorian building with wrought iron and stained glass... very grand. Also, the maritime museum is free and worth a ganders on a gloomy day. The Rocks are also fantastic to wander round; small, quaint shops and pretty buildings again.

Wow, nice work. I'm sure custard will be enthused

I smoke when I'm on fire... I tend to avoid that as much as possible. As for cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars and pipes I have never. Although a pipe would be rather dashing.

The only thing better than this game would be a robot puzzle adventure game made by Ivy and Dave G... oh wait!

I've used the TCP/IP plugin before to retrieve web pages in game and I believe scotch or SSH made a IRC client with it, I'm not sure if this could do the trick.

P.S. Does this mean you accept what I said in the beta thread?

Indeed

Here's my global solution:

Code: ags

// At the top of the global scripts file
bool restored = false;

// Global on_event
function on_event (EventType event, int data) {
		if(event == eEventRestoreGame) {
			restored = true;
		}
}

// Global repeatedly_execute
function repeatedly_execute() {
	if(restored) {
		restored = false;
		Display("Game Restored.");
	}
}

Works a treat!

Not sure exactly if this is a bug but I seem to have difficulties using the on_event function to callback an event on game restore. I'm simply trying to output a display message to say the game has been restored but the screen seems to be stuck on black (no fade in after restore).

See here

Thanks, I was hoping to avoid repeatedly execute because of the constant extra work but it seems there is no way around it. I had to tweak the code slightly but it's all good, thanks Calin.

So I'm trying to get a GUI to fade in and fade out, to do this I have a while loop reducing the transparency bit by bit on each pass through the loop, see code:

Code: ags

function fade(this GUI*, String inOut, int speed) {
	int i = 100 - (100 - ((100/speed)*speed));
	
	while(i > 0) {
		if (inOut == "in") { this.Transparency = i; }
		else { this.Transparency = 100-i; }
		i-=speed;
		Wait(1);
	}
}

But as you can see I'm using a Wait(1) to make the fade out gradual rather than happening before you can see it.

I've tried to replicate this with a setTimer but I don't actually see the guifade in or out (I think it's happening too quickly). Here's the code I put inside the while loop:

Code: ags

SetTimer(5, 1);
while(IsTimerExpired(5) == false){
  // do nothing
}

When I up the SetTimer to 2 the game crashes saying that the while loop ran 150001 times or something ridiculous. I've even tried nesting several timeout, while loops in the hope that it will prevent a crash but with no luck

Thanks in advance,
Maggi

Thanks. Although it's a solution I'd much rather avoid. I'll wait and see f anyone else has any ideas.

Hi peoples. Just trying to put in a message that says "game loaded" upon the restoration of a saved game, here's my code:

Code: ags

function on_event (EventType event, int data) 
{
	if(event == eEventRestoreGame) {
		Display("Game Loaded.");
	}
}

However I'm assuming the code is running before the fade in is complete as the screen remains black until I click the mouse and the game fades in, sans message.

Any idea if I'm doing something wrong or is there a way of getting it to work.

I've tried adding a fadeIn(3) before the display, which shows the room background but again no display message and there is no cursor or GUI until I click the mouse.