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Everything-Else / Re: I give up

« on: October 13, 2026, 09:38:03 PM »

I feel you, Kawa. I've been excited to see new AGI/SCI stuff and seeing it all be LLM stuff is very disheartening. I don't post often, if at all, because my current project isn't one of these engines, but I do read the forums a lot.

I mean, generating AGI assets?? Isn't there beauty enough in your own attempts? It's not like the early AGI backgrounds were polished. Using an LLM just feels... like a betrayal.

I see it in the AGS community too, people generating AI stuff for games and it breaks my heart. Just an endless torrent of soulless mediocrity.

And as for using AI for vibe coding AGI/SCI tools, I think I realize now what it is. You input money and you receive a codebase you don't understand. There's no craft in that. If you wanted to change or improve it, you'd be stuck paying more money. It makes me feel sick. Where is the pride in that?

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: Stopping IconBar eating mouse events.

« on: July 16, 2026, 04:00:28 PM »

I did look at LSL6, but opening LSL6 in SCI Companion gives me basically machine code that I can't read, so unless someone has done all that work deciphering it and commenting it, I don't think I could use it.

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SCI Syntax Help / Stopping IconBar eating mouse events.

« on: July 16, 2026, 03:42:39 PM »

Hey, I'm trying to customise the IconBar in the template game so it's always on screen and at the bottom, as a first step towards turning it into a verb box. So far I have it positioned right and removed all the hide/show commands so it doesn't crash the engine after a few clicks, however it eats all the user input no matter where on screen the mouse is.  Is there a way to solve this? I'll paste my edited code below. The scripts are a little hard to read as there's lots of magic numbers and temp variable names, but I'm sure I can work it out. Thanks in advance!

   (method (handleEvent pEvent &tmp temp0 pEventType temp2 temp3 theGCursorNumber theCurIcon theCurInvIcon)
      (pEvent localize:)
      (= pEventType (pEvent type?))
      (cond
         ((& state $0004))
         (
            (or
               (and
                  (not pEventType)
                  (& state $0400)
                  ;(<= -10 (pEvent y?))
                  (<= 168 (pEvent y?) )
                  (<= 0 (pEvent x?))
                  (<= (pEvent x?) 320)
                  (not (= temp0 0))
               )
               (and
                  (== pEventType evKEYBOARD)
                  (or
                     (== (pEvent message?) KEY_ESCAPE)
                     (== (pEvent message?) KEY_DELETE)
                  )
                  (= temp0 1)
               )
            )
            (pEvent globalize:)
            (= oldMouseX (pEvent x?))
            (= oldMouseY (pEvent y?))
            (= theGCursorNumber gCursorNumber)
            (= theCurIcon curIcon)
            (= theCurInvIcon curInvIcon)
            ;(self show:)
            ;(gGame setCursor: 999)
            (if temp0
               (gGame
                  setCursor:
                     gCursorNumber
                     1
                     (+
                        (curIcon nsLeft?)
                        (/ (- (curIcon nsRight?) (curIcon nsLeft?)) 2)
                     )
                     (- (curIcon nsBottom?) 3)
               )
            )
            (self doit:)
            (= temp3
               (if (or (gUser canControl:) (gUser canInput:))
                  (curIcon cursor?)
               else
                  gWaitCursor
               )
            )
            (if temp0
               (gGame setCursor: temp3 1 oldMouseX oldMouseY)
            else
               (gGame
                  setCursor: temp3 1 ((pEvent new:) x?) (Max (pEvent y?) (+ 1 height))
               )
            )
            ;(self hide:)
         )
         ((& pEventType evKEYBOARD)
            (switch (pEvent message?)
               (KEY_RETURN
                  (cond
                     ((not (IsObject curIcon)))
                     ((or (!= curIcon useIconItem) curInvIcon)
                        (pEvent
                           type: (curIcon type?)
                           message:
                              (if (== curIcon useIconItem)
                                 (curInvIcon message?)
                              else
                                 (curIcon message?)
                              )
                        )
                     )
                     (else (pEvent type: 0))
                  )
               )
               (KEY_NUMPAD0
                  (if (gUser canControl:) (self swapCurIcon:))
                  (pEvent claimed: TRUE)
               )
               (JOY_NULL
                  (if (& (pEvent type?) evJOYSTICK)
                     (self advanceCurIcon:)
                     (pEvent claimed: TRUE)
                  )
               )
            )
         )
         ((& pEventType evMOUSEBUTTON)
            (cond
               ((& (pEvent modifiers?) emSHIFT) (self advanceCurIcon:) (pEvent claimed: TRUE))
               ((& (pEvent modifiers?) emCTRL)
                  (if (gUser canControl:) (self swapCurIcon:))
                  (pEvent claimed: TRUE)
               )
               ((IsObject curIcon)
                  (pEvent
                     type: (curIcon type?)
                     message:
                        (if (== curIcon useIconItem)
                           (curInvIcon message?)
                        else
                           (curIcon message?)
                        )
                  )
               )
            )
         )
      )
   )

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AGI Development Tools / Re: QT AGIStudio update

« on: May 21, 2019, 09:51:10 PM »

Thank you so much for this! I've been having trouble compiling QT AGI Studio, and this is a godsend. I had to change a line in logedit.cpp because my netbook has a vertical resolution of 600 pixels and it was making the logic editor bug out because it's minimum text editor size was 600 pixels. But this works perfectly, and I'm stoked to make agi games on the go!

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AGI Development Tools / Re: WinAGI Version 1.2.3 Is Available!!!

« on: March 20, 2019, 07:20:12 PM »

You're right, the Help file isn't helpful on that issue. Sorry about that.

But there is a way to use the keyboard to change the selected loop/cel. Use the TAB key to bring the view tree into focus (you can tell it has the focus because the selected item will be highlighted in blue instead of gray). Then you can use up/down and left/right to move through the loops and cels.

Would it be possible to add dedicated keys for going back and forth between frames? When I animate, I need to be able to quickly flip the frames and draw without going through menus. I also have a macro keyboard I use, so I can bind shortcuts to keys on it when my laptop is in tablet mode (and the regular keyboard isn't available). Adding it would make it significantly quicker and more comfortable to animate views.

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AGI Development Tools / Re: WinAGI Version 1.2.3 Is Available!!!

« on: March 20, 2019, 10:39:49 AM »

Hey, I'm loving this new version of WinAGI, and I'm really looking forward to using it to make an AGI game!

Are there any keyboard shortcuts for the View editor, though? For going back and forth between frames in a loop and so on, the help file doesn't seem to have them and I can't find any.

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: What are we working on?

« on: July 12, 2017, 03:00:08 PM »

Why did you mimick me, Kawa? All I wanted to do was share something I thought y'all might like that I worked hard on. :\

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The Games and other Sierra Adventure stuff / Re: What are we working on?

« on: July 09, 2017, 01:48:18 PM »

I still can't figure out how to make a new interface for SCI1.1, so I made an AGS game instead in a month:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2170/ !

I'm really quite proud of it.

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SCI Development Tools / Re: A question about doing something in SCI Companion

« on: March 18, 2017, 01:57:24 AM »

I've been trying to do the same thing - right now I can't even get a button to work, though I can draw one to the screen. It's just not clickable yet. The template code for drawing the interface has a lot of assembly in it, too, so I can't make head nor tail of how you're supposed to do it.

I'm sure if it was hacked at for a while we could figure out how to seperate out all the mouse handling and interface handling code so we could make our own, but there just isn't enough documentation on it to make it happen yet. I'll continue trying to figure it out.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: So how customisable is the interface in SCI1.1?

« on: February 20, 2017, 01:44:35 AM »

Is there a reason you have this in a doit method of a Code instance, instead of just a procedure?

Okay, I'm just following what the template code is doing, because I'm certain that the template code works, so I don't want to step outside of what it's telling me to do. The statusline code I got it from does it that way, so that's what I did. Is it wrong?

That's because it was decompiled from the binary. It was a ton of work just to get it into that state.

That's understandable, I've been going through the code and putting in variable names and comments when I'm sure I know what the code does. Once I'm confident with it I'll probably go back and rename/comment all the code in the template so it's easier for other people. I just need to learn it first.

What do you mean by "Running this code in Main.sc"? It matters from what code you're calling it, not what script file it's in.

Well, I originally had it in main.sc's doit method, directly below (statusLineCode doit:). There was nothing there. But putting it in Rm110's doit method DOES work for some reason. I'm not sure why.

It was:

Code: (Main.sc Line 706) [Select]

(method (doit)
(if (GameIsRestarting)
(if (IsOneOf gRoomNumber TITLEROOM_SCRIPT)
(HideStatus)
else
(statusLineCode doit:)
(testDrawingCode doit:) ;the added code
)
(= gColorDepth (Graph grGET_COLOURS))
)
(super doit: &rest)
)

But I had to put it in Rm110 like:

Code: [Select]

(method (doit)
(testDrawingCode doit:)
)
I'll be honest, I'm not sure why it didn't work the first time.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: So how customisable is the interface in SCI1.1?

« on: February 19, 2017, 01:39:54 PM »

Alright! I worked out what was going wrong, I was missing "&tmp" in the variable declaration in the method header.

By running:

Code: [Select]

(instance testDrawingCode of Code
(properties)

(method (doit &tmp oldPort)
(= oldPort (GetPort))
(SetPort -1)
(Graph grFILL_BOX 0 0 40 40 VISUAL 5 -1 -1)
(Graph grUPDATE_BOX 0 0 40 40 VISUAL)
(SetPort oldPort)
)
)

in the room's doit method I managed to draw a solid colour square without destroying the engine! I've been looking through the drawing code for the rest of it to see how to add buttons and stuff, something that makes it more difficult is that most of the variables are labelled tempX and there's very little comments telling me whats happening. I'll keep slogging through it. Running this code in Main.sc doesn't work, but I expect it's just drawing it behind the room's background instead, and if the room was differently shaped to have a hole in it it would work. Progress!

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: So how customisable is the interface in SCI1.1?

« on: February 18, 2017, 10:28:16 AM »

I am trying to make a new window, just to experiment and learn how this works - I don't just want to edit the iconbar but make an entirely new interface. The one I had in AGS looked like this:


So I wanna know how to replicate it in SCI. I'm... more of an artist than a game developer really.

I tried using NewWindow, here is my code:

Code: [Select]

(method (doit oldPort hWnd)
(= oldPort (GetPort))
(= hWnd (NewWindow
        20 20 40 40
        "Test Window"
        nwNODRAW
        nwON_TOP
        clBLACK
        clWHITE
))
(SetPort hWnd)
(Graph grFILL_BOX 20 20 40 40 VISUAL 5 -1 -1)
(Graph grUPDATE_BOX 20 20 40 40 VISUAL)
(SetPort oldPort)
)
And here is the, quite honestly baffling, output:



Today I learnt that SCI1.1 has the full 0-256 range for ASCII, which makes translation a lot easier! But what went wrong here?

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: So how customisable is the interface in SCI1.1?

« on: February 18, 2017, 01:45:16 AM »

Honestly I think that's a little uncalled for. I'm just here trying to learn an engine with very little documentation or up to date tutorials (half the tutorials on SCI1.1 use a syntax that doesn't compile in what I'm using, it's very confusing), and I'm gonna have to ask a lot of questions you may find silly because you already know the answers to it.

The last time I used SCI0, I asked if the text parser box was done in-engine or in-script, and the consensus was it was hard coded into the engine and you needed to do a lot of workarounds to make it be something else. I am not aware of many games that used a nonstandard interface in SCI1.1 (even the SCI1.1 version of LSL6 used the iconbar and not the interface from the high res version), so I was concerned that the iconbar was the same deal as in SCI0. This engine isn't SCUMM, it's its own thing, and I've worked with a lot of engines with hard coded elements (such as OHRRPGCE, which has a pretty non-customisable battle engine).

I'm just trying to learn this engine. :\ It's difficult, and I don't know enough about it at the moment to know how to ask the "right" questions. I'd appreciate it if you helped me and didn't snipe at me?

Anyway, I've been having a look at it, and it looks like, though I can't be sure, that you use GetPort on the current viewport and SetPort to draw a new window overlay, though I'm not sure exactly how it works. Looking at the status line code, it seems pretty straightforward in that you can draw directly to the screen using the Graph function, but I'm not entirely sure how you draw a button yet. There's no documentation on Get/SetPort that I can find, either. How does that work?

Edit: Ok, I've messed around a little to try and get drawing shit done, and added this to the room instance, but when it's there I can't click on anything and it gives me the error "35979.fon not found" and hangs whenever an interaction is supposed to take place.

Code: [Select]

(method (doit oldPort)
(= oldPort (GetPort))
(SetPort -1)
(Graph grFILL_BOX 20 20 40 40 VISUAL 5 -1 -1)
(Graph grUPDATE_BOX 20 20 40 40 VISUAL)
(SetPort oldPort)Pretty sure I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what.

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: So how customisable is the interface in SCI1.1?

« on: February 17, 2017, 12:33:34 PM »

Thank you, I'll read these over and see how to create my own interface from it!

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SCI Syntax Help / Re: So how customisable is the interface in SCI1.1?

« on: February 17, 2017, 10:09:52 AM »

Can you help to point me to where the mouse handler is, and the iconbar is drawn? That's the main thing I'm having trouble with. Once I find out where everything is, I can probably program it myself, but there are like, 30 scripts and I have no idea where everything is.