Yet another question (Text Boxes)

[Corby]

How do you have a text message on the screen and have at the same time, animation occuring? I was thinking about using this for dialogue. Is this possible? I'm sure I've seen it somewhere.

[Chris Cromer]

Yes it is possible... I can't remember the exact code to do it at the moment... I really need to start working in AGI more.

[Corby]

I looked around in the help file at the display commands, can't find anything specific. What does print.at do?

[Chris Cromer]

Give me a few minuted, I did this in the intro for a version of V... just need to examine my old code.

[Sami Tervo]

Set flag 15 to enable other action while text-box is on. To close text box use close.window-command.

[Chris Cromer]

Found it:

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set(f15);
v21 = 10;
print("message");
This shoud do it.

Just change 10 to a higher or lower number depending on how long you want the window to stay open.

[EDIT]I modified my code, I accidentally put reset instead of set.[/EDIT]

[Oliver]

I looked around in the help file at the display commands, can't find anything specific. What does print.at do?

Print.at means that you can print the text on some position.

[Kon-Tiki]

Heh, that didn't even work for me

-Kon-Tiki-

[Joey]

is v21 a user defined variable, or was it all ready set by agi studio?

[Corby]

Thanks for the help, when I put this in my game, I'll let you know how it went.

[Chris Cromer]

is v21 a user defined variable, or was it all ready set by agi studio?

v21 isn't used by AGI Studio. None of the variable are used by AGI Studio. They are used by the AGI Interpreter

And yes v21 is used by the AGI interpreter it determines the ammount of time the text window should stay open(for a dialog box) then closes it after the time in v21 is up.

Kon-tiki, make sure that you got my latest code, I modified it yesterday when I noticed that I used reset instead of set on f15. And yes it does work... although I only tried it in NAGI since AGI doesn't work in XP.

[Joey]

ok genious.
also, is there a variable the INTERPRETER uses for a timer? i always run into trouble where i need a timer, and i really dont want to make my own.

[Chris Cromer]

Nope there isn't.

[Zero]

Thanks for that code i also needed it
(also thanks Corby for putting the question up)

[Joel]

do we have something against define names?