Larry 3 customized swearing - How to do it?

[Pikachu14]

In Larry 3, you could enter your own custom cussword and whenever appropiate, Larry would say it. But how is it done? EditPrint, obviously, but...

[Chris Cromer]

You save the "word" as a variable and use FormatPrint to print it.

For instance I beleive it was something like this:

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FormatPrint("Don't you dare say %s to me again!" aString)

It will then replace %s with the word that is in aString.

Hope this helps.

[Pikachu14]

Well, that's showing the cussword. But how does EditPrint fit in?

[Chris Cromer]

EditPrint is for entering a value into a edit field(just like the input for typeing.)

When it is called it opens a dialog window with the text you chose, the input box, and any text you want to be within the input box.

[Brian Provinciano]

You simply use a combination of EditPrint() and FormatPrint().


You can use string variables:

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/******************************************************************************/
(string
   theName[41]
)
/******************************************************************************/
(instance public rm001 of Rm
   (properties)
   (method (init)
       EditPrint(theName 40 "What is your name?")
       FormatPrint("Well hello there %s! Have a good day!" theName)


or local variables:

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/******************************************************************************/
(local
   theName[41]
)
/******************************************************************************/
(instance public rm001 of Rm
   (properties)
   (method (init)
       EditPrint(@theName 40 "What is your name?")
       FormatPrint("Well hello there %s! Have a good day!" @theName)

or temp variables:

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/******************************************************************************/
(instance public rm001 of Rm
   (properties)
   (method (init)
       (var theName[41])
       = theName[0] 0
       EditPrint(@theName 40 "What is your name?")
       FormatPrint("Well hello there %s! Have a good day!" @theName)


Each operate slightly differently, but all work.

[Pikachu14]

YAY! It works! Thank you!

Enter new cuss word: Camelpoo
c -What are you going to do?- uss
"Camelpoo!" you shout, and feel much better...