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Shadowiii
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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject: Stupid Text Box |
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Ok, so I've coded something that displays a text box everytime you press some key (say, x and text box 1 pops up) but the dumb thing suspends hero movement when you press it. Is there a way to, in a script, disable the "suspend player" aspect of text boxes, and then make taht aspect return after the script has ended? (Ie "resume player in text boxes" "suspend player in text boxes", etc.)
All help will be appreciated.
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TMC
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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You have to write your own code that moves the hero according to what keys you press. It's very easy to do, but hard to perfect.
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Shadowiii
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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I'm trying to become supreme dictator of the world, but if Cube can help with my text box problem, I will be very appreciative.
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Shaede
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| The Mad Cacti wrote: | | You have to write your own code that moves the hero according to what keys you press. It's very easy to do, but hard to perfect. |
He's got the right idea. You can't move the hero once the text box appears, but plotscripting can. Heres an example:
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variable (done,0)
show text box(0)
while (done == 0) do (
wait for key
if (key is pressed == 72) then (
wait for hero (me)
walk hero (me,up,1)
)
if (key is pressed == 80) then (
wait for hero (me)
walk hero (me,down,1)
)
if (key is pressed == 75) then (
wait for hero (me)
walk hero (me,left,1)
)
if (key is pressed == 77) then (
wait for hero (me)
walk hero (me,right,1)
)
if (key is pressed == 57, or, key is pressed == 28) then (
increment(done)
advance text box
)
)
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Unfortuanatly, you'll experience slowdown because the "wait for key" and "key is pressed" functions stack. If there was a function that returned the value of the key you pressed, you could use that instead. I don't think the OHR has a command like that, so I think this is about the best method you got as far as moving while in a text box. |
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Mr B
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm...I thought that you just wanted to make the variable display in the lower left-hand corner.
Since you don't, I really can't help you. Certainly not more than the above-posted guys can. Listen to them -- it does a plotscripter good. |
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Cube
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Shaede"] | Code: |
variable (done,0)
show text box(0)
while (done == 0) do (
wait for key
if (key is pressed == 72) then (
wait for hero (me)
walk hero (me,up,1)
)
if (key is pressed == 80) then (
wait for hero (me)
walk hero (me,down,1)
)
if (key is pressed == 75) then (
wait for hero (me)
walk hero (me,left,1)
)
if (key is pressed == 77) then (
wait for hero (me)
walk hero (me,right,1)
)
if (key is pressed == 57, or, key is pressed == 28) then (
increment(done)
advance text box
)
)
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That's almost right, but I need to change/point out a couple things  .
Firstly, key is pressed() is used with an argument. So, you'd put those numbers in the brackets rather than comparing them with an equal to sign. Also, it would be a lot easier to include scancode.hsi and just type:
key is pressed(key:up)
rather than using the actual number (key:right, key:left:, key:down are also there  ). So:
if (key is pressed(key:up)) then (
whatever
)
Will work just fine.
Also, there's no need to have the "wait for key" command. Instead, replace it with "wait(1)". This way, you should get less lag and the keys will be more responsive. Sure, it may be looping really fast but that won't really effect anything. I've used more complex stuff than this in loops using the same method .
(Also, just so you know. key:space and key:enter will work in that last statement where "done" is incremented. Don't forget to place those in brakets too!) |
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TMC
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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Now I need to point something out too. Using 'wait for hero' before each walk command adds a 1-tile-walk lag. But if you replace it with wait (1), the walk hero commands add to the walk-stack faster than the hero moves, as it takes 5 ticks to walk one tile. Also, you tried to initialise the variable 'variable (done, 0)'
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variable (done, ww) #ww= will walk
show text box(0)
while (done == 0) do (
wait (1)
wait for hero(me)
ww := 0
if (key is pressed(key:up)) then (
walk hero (me,up,1)
ww := 1
)
if (key is pressed(key:down), and, ww == 0) then (
walk hero (me,down,1)
ww := 1
)
if (key is pressed(key:left), and, ww == 0) then (
walk hero (me,left,1)
ww := 1
)
if (key is pressed(key:right), and, ww == 0) then (
walk hero (me,right,1)
)
if (key is pressed(key:space), or, key is pressed(key:enter)) then (
increment(done)
)
)
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Also, the advance textbox was not needed as the hero is not suspended (unless you want them to be). I added in ww to prevent the hero from walking diagonally.
Anyway, like I said I write this thing several times, but its hard to get it looking exactly like it does normally, so you'll have to play around a bit. I always loss+forget what I did last time.
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