I came back to make repairs to Day Of Honor. It's "ask" function isn't working. I tried a couple of things, but no dice. At this point, it is written in as...

            wait {
              if (ask("Try again?")) {
                MoveObject (crystal shard, player)
                ClearScreen
                MoveObject (player, outside the temple)
              }
              else {
                finish
              }
            }

I think this game was originally created before version 5. At some point, I wanted to add something, and I updated it (including the "ASL version = " in the code. It is now a "version 5.5" file. I have discovered that the game has a lot of bugs I somehow didn't notice at the time, and I am finally trying to fix it. At this point, I have the current version (5.6.2) of Quest installed. I've been trying to read-up in the documentation, but at this point it is kind of messy and confusing. Unfortunately, this same sequence is repeated verbatim about a dozen times at different possible points of character death, and they all hang the game with an message about how ask was deprecated, but so far as I can tell, all that's different as far as usage is whether I use an upper or lower case "A/a" in the word ask, and neither one seems to want to work. Which version of ask should I be trying to use? Is there something about the way it's implemented that's interfering? Is that nested if/then business creating some kind of redundancy issue? I'm at a loss.

BTW: since it seems to be running the file, I have not changed the ASL version number in the code to 560 (562?). It is still listed as 550.

Sidenote: I really want to make a sequel to this now, but I feel like I should get "part 1" running smoothly first.

the version in code should be:

..., 540, 550, 560

so, if you're using '5.6.2', it should be: <asl version="560">

if the '560' doesn't work... then try '550' instead

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there's: 'ask' and 'Ask'

'ask' is a popup menu window, and 'Ask' is in-line (in the big text box as hyperlinks) ... or I got them reversed, lol

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the 'ask/Ask' works like this:

ask ("Are you a male?") {
  // choices: yes (true) or no (false)
  // quest automatically (hidden from you) sets the built-in 'result' Variable for you: result = (your selection of yes:true/no:false)
  if (result) { // the left is the shortened syntax of this: if (result = true) {
    msg ("You are a male.")
  } else { // or: if (result = false) {
    msg ("You are a female.")
  }
}

Ask ("Are you a male?") {
  // choices: yes (true) or no (false)
  // quest automatically (hidden from you) sets the built-in 'result' Variable for you: result = (your selection of yes:true/no:false)
  if (result) { // the left is the shortened syntax of this: if (result = true) {
    msg ("You are a male.")
  } else { // or: if (result = false) {
    msg ("You are a female.")
  }
}

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here's the change in syntaxes from version 530 to 540:

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/ ... notes.html

mainly they're the List/Dictionary Attribute syntaxes

Thanks for the info!
So, with the knowledge that both versions of ask/Ask are now available, I determined that the problem was caused by the arrangement of putting the ask inside the if. So, I got that switched, and it seems to be working. Huzzah! There are other problems to deal with, such as replacing the Pauses I had in there with the newer set timeout, but I'm on my way to a full update.
Also, it seems to want me to keep the ASL as 550, just for the record.

UPDATE: the new and improved (and repaired) Day Of Honor has been uploaded. Thanks for the help!
Now I can begin work on "Day After Honor."

ya, I guess even though the newest quest version is 5.6.2 (in the 560's), it's updates must be only minor changes, allowing for we to still use the old 550's version in/for our game / game_code's tag: <asl version="550">entire game code/content</asl>