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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Beginner's question: why won't this compile?

« on: January 16, 2019, 12:13:24 PM »

I only came upon 1 issue with this code when I copy/pasted it into an empty room:

(send n001:init()) should simply be (n001:init())

You won't need the "send" for Props and Acts that you create.

Try that and see if that works for you.

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Everything-Else / Re: I'd just like to take a moment...

« on: December 29, 2018, 01:53:00 PM »

Same to you! I know I for one lurk here quite a bit and am always glad to see people posting new things and even a new member appear every now and again.

Happy New Year, and I hope to see some new projects in 2019!

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SCI Syntax Help / Importing a Character (a la Quest for Glory)

« on: December 10, 2018, 09:10:10 PM »

How'd they do this? I assume it saved a file that contains values for certain variables, but what how would one accomplish actually importing this into another program?

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Interface overhaul/stripdown (like Myst)

« on: August 08, 2017, 11:10:35 PM »

I use a bit of that kind of coding in Betrayed Alliance, particularly the door puzzle, the evil ghost puzzle, and the rotating tower. My code probably isn't optimized, but it could be of use. The source code is included in the download

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: The Dating Pool

« on: June 22, 2017, 07:24:27 AM »

I find the one with short hair more appealing.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Vertically aligned Buttons

« on: June 16, 2017, 02:16:10 PM »

Okay. I've got it nailed down and working correctly.

Here's the code I ended up with:

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= btnY (send hDialog:nsBottom)
        (while(< paramCnt buttonCnt)
  (send hButtons[paramCnt]:moveTo( (+(send hDialog:nsLeft)4) btnY ))
  (send hDialog:add(hButtons[paramCnt]))
            = btnY (+ 4 (send hButtons[paramCnt]:nsBottom))
  ++paramCnt
   )Setting the value of btnY with (send hDialog:nsBottom) allows here to be multiple lines of text and not having the buttons overlap (that was the problem I had when I had it set to a static number).

Of course, this code instead of the horizontal buttons will lead to all kinds of unintended problems, so I set a global variable to turn this on or off depending on whether I want vertical or horizontal buttons. It will default be off (and so bypass the problems it would cause), but for small things here and there, will work perfectly by just switching the global variable to true when that time comes.

Thanks for all the help.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Vertically aligned Buttons

« on: June 16, 2017, 09:48:28 AM »

I think I know part of the problem.
"btnY" is not a defined variable in the method, so I had to add it into the variables list. Then I ran the code provided by Gumby, but the btnY variable was never defined, so everything was going wonky (as can be seen in the provided pics)
So I looked for where and how "btnX" was defined:

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(if(> btnsWidth (send hDialog:nsRight))
= btnX 4
)(else
  = btnX (- (send hDialog:nsRight) btnsWidth)I thought I would be able to troubleshoot from here, by creating a similar way to define btnY, but let's just say things haven't been going very smoothly.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Very close now. It works well when btnY is arbitrarily set to a value of 16, but I know that that will no longer work if the dialog sentence is two lines or more. I'm trying to figure out how to determine the dialog's height value, but coming up empty.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Vertically aligned Buttons

« on: June 16, 2017, 09:24:15 AM »

Getting closer

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Vertically aligned Buttons

« on: June 16, 2017, 08:47:57 AM »

Actually, It looks like the Restore method has vertical buttons. I may look at that to see if I can find any clues.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Vertically aligned Buttons

« on: June 16, 2017, 07:40:07 AM »

EDIT:

Okay. here's what happened. See the attachments. The first is Gumby's untested code. The second is with Kawa's suggested change (which did get all the buttons in the pic in descending order! hooray!) then the 3rd is when I tried to "fix" the problems myself. lol.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Vertically aligned Buttons

« on: June 15, 2017, 05:37:07 PM »

Yes, you need to hack up the Print() procedure in Controls.sc.  I did something similar with aligning controls here:  http://sciprogramming.com/community/index.php?topic=1697

I'm really impressed with what you achieved with the edit print. The main reason being after going through the code, I honestly only understand 10% of it at all.

Needless to say, I didn't find the relevant part. I'm not asking you to write the solution for me, but perhaps you could help me zero in on the relevant part(s)

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SCI Syntax Help / Vertically aligned Buttons

« on: June 14, 2017, 08:58:23 PM »

Buttons in the Print command are default horizontal, which usually looks great, but sometimes I'd like them to be vertically aligned.

Anyone know the trick? I imagine it's simple enough, but it eludes me.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: What's your favorite Sierra font?

« on: June 14, 2017, 05:32:13 PM »

What direction was that?

I was trying to install it to Windows then use the companion feature to draw an approximation. Obviously that was the wrong way to go

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: What's your favorite Sierra font?

« on: June 14, 2017, 04:43:01 PM »

Gotcha. It works just fine. Thanks for the walk-through. I was going about it in the wrong direction!

Thanks again.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: What's your favorite Sierra font?

« on: June 14, 2017, 04:26:03 PM »

I attached Wilco Serif.fon back on page 1.

I downloaded it a couple times but have not had any success installing it on my computer or opening it with companion.