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[Mnemonic]

I'm glad to hear that

[deadworm222]

I have a problem with the notepad system, once again. Everything else works, but...

I have three separate windows - Locations, Events and Characters. Now, when I talk to a person, and choose [Consult Notepad], the Characters-window appears by default. In each window are buttons that open the other windows. Now, if I don't want to ask about anything in the Characters window, I should be able to choose either the Events or locations window - and this works - but because the code looks like this

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if(Selected==4)
      {

Loop=false;
Game.Interactive = true;
WinCharacters.GoExclusive();

Game.Interactive=false;

if(question=="1")
{
WinCharacters.CrossOutNote(1);//removes the first note

actor.Talk("Ask about the first note");


}






if(question=="2")
{

WinCharacters.CrossOutNote(2);
actor.Talk("ask about the second note");





}


if(question=="3")
{
WinCharacters.CrossOutNote(3);
actor.Talk("ask bout the third note");

}

if(question=="4")
{

WinCharacters.CrossOutNote(4);

actor.Talk("fourth note");

}


OldGuyDialogue();//after asking, go back to dialogue


...the Locations/Events window opens AND the OldGuyDialogue() script is executed, thus displaying the dialogue choices and making the screen a mess.

I tried a different method: I created one window called Notepad, and made Characters/Loacations/Events sort of sub-windows (if real subwindows can be created, I don't know how). Within the Notepad-window I could have switched between the different sub-windows  - but this didn't work, as the only way to open a window is the GoExclusive, and when another window is opened on top of the Notepad window, it makes the controls in Notepad-window unaccessible.

In my mind a few ideas are forming, but... do you have any ideas?

[deadworm222]

Never mind: the notepad interface is now fully functioning!

[MMR]

When will you show us something of that???

I'm eager!!  

[Mnemonic]

Never mind: the notepad interface is now fully functioning!

Great, you were faster than me How did you fix it?
About the sub-windows, it should be possible, i.e. to nest a WINDOW definition infor other window, but I found it's broken It will be fixed in the next build.

[deadworm222]

Sorry, MMR, I'm under a wov of silence . If everything goes well, you don't have to wait too long for a playable demo. Have you visited the teaser site? http://www.foreverdreamstudios.com/games.html

Instead of making the buttons  open a window, I made them assign a value to a global variable (which I cleverly named go_on, don't ask me why); like go_on="characters", go_on="events", go_on="locations". Then, in the dialogue script:

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if(Selected==4)
{

Loop=false;
Game.Interactive = true;
WinCharacters.GoExclusive();

for(var f=0; go_on!="go_on"; f=f+1)
{
if(go_on=="characters") WinCharacters.GoExclusive();
if(go_on=="events") WinEvents.GoExclusive();
if(go_on=="locations") WinLocations.GoExclusive();
}

if(go_on=="go_on")
{
//we have selected a note, and an appropriate response will be heard

Now it's stuck in the loop, until go_on=="go_on" - whic happens if you close the window or you click on a note that begins a dialogue. Phew!

[piere]

Can anyone post a working sample project of this  technique? Thanks