Annoying problem with "W"-words...

[lemur]

Hi all,
This will probably sound stupid and odd to you:

I'm new to this AGI-dev stuff and I'm eating my fridge in frustration over a strange thing. I can't seem to add words beginning with "w" to the words.tok - file. The interpreter doesn't recognize them. I can add whatever other words I like except for "w"-words. Kinda annoying since I wanna have a "wallet" in my game .

I use AGI Studio 1.35. Anyone came across this problem before? I've tried other fanmade games and there it works fine. I can't find anything I do wrong. Help!

[Parabola]

not a solution, just a thought. what about having the wallet as the inventory screen and carried objects are put in the 'wallet'?  

[CapTAmerik@]

Maybe you could use a 'money clip' (if you use the wallet for money)?

Or maybe a 'business card holder' when you use it for business cards?

CaptAmerik@

[Cosmic R]

I think that kinda defeats the purpose.  The problem is still there. what if he wanted wand? or willow, or wasp?

[Te Rangi]

I agree with Rainer. What's the point of making a solution to a problem that will still be there?

[CapTAmerik@]

I'm not saying I possess the knowledge. I'd be one of the worst when it would come to giving you a programming solution to the whole W in .tok...

So I was just trying to come up with a creative solution, as I'm sure there are other words for 'wand', 'wasp' and 'willow' as well.

The point I'm making is this: if no one knows the problem exists, or no one knows how to deal with it, avoid it when making your game concept!
 
 

CaptAmerik@

[Te Rangi]

Sorry for being a total bitch, but shouldn't we concentrate on finding a solution?

[lemur]

I've got all kinds of synonyms for the wallet. Like cash / money / billfold / etc... The strange thing is this, my code:

if (said("look","wallet")

And I write: "look wallet" I get an error: "logged an unknown word".

But if I write: "look cash" everything works fine! "Wallet" and "Cash" are in the same wordgroup:

billfold | cash | money | wallet

and the code says "look","wallet" (above) but still I can't use that word, but the other words in the same group?!?! strange isn't it? I noticed yesterday that some words work. Words that don't get recognized: war, walls, wallet, water. Words that get: woman, word, wuzz.

I've tried to take away the debug stuff but then I'll get the game-error, unrecognized word bla bla bla, instead which is pretty much the same :-)

Thanks for trying to help!

[Te Rangi]

No problem, lemur  

[Chris Cromer]

Be sure to recompile your script after you alter the word list, if you don't recompile it then it won't know that the word exists(and give you the error).

That is the only time I have ever had that error before... so if that isn't it then I am not sure what is.

[StrangeQuark]

Try what Chris said.

Words that don't get recognized: war, walls, wallet, water. Words that get: woman, word, wuzz.

Looks to be only words starting with wa.

[lemur]

Chris: Yes I've recompiled all the scripts. Besides, the interpreter recognizes words that I've added AFTER the word "wallet". Would be great if someone had time to test this on their machine.

It's words that start with "wa", "wb" and "wc" aswell. Haven't tried how far up it goes, but "wo" works fine.

[Jelle]

Send it to me... And I'll try to find out what's wrong with it...

[lemur]

Jelle: Sure I could do that! But I meant if someone could just try to add the word "wallet" to their words.tok-file and see if the game understands it. Just a dumb-check to make sure there's no bug hidden somewhere...

[Jelle]

Oh sorry.

I have some W-words in my game: watch, who,...   and they all work!