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[Solved] Quest 6 - Storing player location/inventory/etc

2021-01-04T03:11:29Z

Yep, that worked. Thanks!

[Solved] Quest 6 - Storing player location/inventory/etc

2021-01-04T02:39:56Z

It seems the player isn't actually IN the room until they look at themself, and then they ARE in the room.

Ah . . . This gets me frequently (if it's what I think it is). Whatever command is moving the player needs to return world.SUCCESS (I think). Try that, and see if the changes take place when you expect.

Strange Attribute?

2021-01-04T02:20:32Z

Enter a command that returns the buggy text. Open the debugger, look at player.currentcommand. See what the command is.

For example, I have a "trees" object, the alias of which is a text processor directive {=game.SomeString}. game.SomeString contains an HTML image that displays instead of the regular text when you look at the "trees" object.

So when the box is checked by default, the command look at trees will be echoed, but with an image of trees instead of the alias "trees".

However, if you uncheck the box, look at trees will echolook at {=game.SomeString}, or sometimes look at <span><img src="blahblahblah"></span> (i.e., the contents of game.SomeString).

This is also what the debugger shows under player.currentcommand. So I am talking about the echoed command here, not the trees' "look" description.

Just FYI, this isn't a problem that I need to solve, more like a curiosity.

Trouble Getting Special Link To Work

2021-01-04T02:18:40Z

Hi KV! I'm fine!

Oh. Thank you!

[Solved] Quest 6 - Storing player location/inventory/etc

2021-01-04T02:12:24Z

That seems to have the same issue as just putting it in a regular variable.

EDIT: Nevermind, it... SEEMS to work? It didn't at first, but then it did. I dunno. It seems the player isn't actually IN the room until they look at themself, and then they ARE in the room. So I'll have to figure out what the 'look me' command does that triggers that.

[Solved] Quest 6 - Storing player location/inventory/etc

2021-01-04T02:05:46Z

Hello.

Untested: I'd probably try game.player.locBak = game.player.loc before moving the player.

Strange Attribute?

2021-01-04T01:58:05Z

Oh!
It's when you click on an object link. Then, the command sent to the server will include the object's alias. As far as Quest is concerned, the player typed in a bunch of text processor commands and it's just echoing back what you typed.

So I guess KV was right the first time :)

[Solved] Quest 6 - Storing player location/inventory/etc

2021-01-04T01:34:20Z

Hi,

I was just wondering how I could store the player's current location, or inventory, or other things, if they were going to be temporarily wiped/replaced with something else (for example, falling unconscious), before being replaced with their original location and inventory. I tried just putting it in a variable with foobar = game.player.loc, but upon returning the player using this variable, it seems they're not really there, as they can't interact with anything in the room.

Trouble Getting Special Link To Work

2021-01-04T00:14:06Z

Hey! It's jmne!!!

Hello! I hope you're doing well!

If you want it to look like a gamebook, you definitely need hyperlinks.

https://textadventures.co.uk/forum/samples/topic/4772/how-to-make-a-text-adventure-look-like-a-gamebook

Trouble Getting Special Link To Work

2021-01-03T23:02:12Z

Hi. So I'm working on a Steven Universe text adventure. I'm trying to get it to look like a gamebook. Do I need hyperlinks? I don't know what I'm doing.

So what I'm trying to do is move the player from one room to another. It's in the room description. This is what I have now:

You are at Ancient Ruins.
{exit:Aab}

This is my game. http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/tu-ceu4k5eqd0m0ztu7zya/steven-universe-the-beginnings

Strange Attribute?

2021-01-03T22:39:52Z

If unchecked, the directive's literal text will be printed out instead of the interpreted result of that directive. So I will leave it checked.

If you get bored, uncheck it.

Enter a command that returns the buggy text. Open the debugger, look at player.currentcommand. See what the command is. (If it's something interesting, come back with a screenshot!)

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-03T12:45:07Z

Apologies mrangel, in my rush to test your code yesterday I must have left in K.V.s code as well because tests this morning show white space returning. K.V.'s solution is reasonably specific anyway as it is only used when panes are removed and I have given it a thorough check (I think!)

[Solved] Quest 6 - Remove default room name prefix

2021-01-03T08:56:57Z

Set "properName" to true.

[Solved] Quest 6 - Remove default room name prefix

2021-01-03T04:55:19Z

Whoops, it's yet another thread.
I've been searching through the code for a while now, but I can't seem to find a way to disable the default room name prefix (i.e, the word "The" it insists on putting before everything).

Increasing Attribute value is not working for me

2021-01-03T04:28:41Z

yep thats working now. Cheers.

Strange Attribute?

2021-01-03T03:47:00Z

I was just curious to understand what that attribute did. I was surprised that unchecking that box could break so much of my game so easily!

If I leave it checked (game.echohyperlinks = true), my aliases which contain text processor directives work fine. If unchecked, the directive's literal text will be printed out instead of the interpreted result of that directive. So I will leave it checked.

Quest 6 - Giving rooms custom attributes, and checking them later

2021-01-03T03:44:02Z

Thanks. I ended up actually writing my own function to teleport them:

async function teleport(dest) {
	game.player.loc = dest;
	msg(`<b>The ${w[game.player.loc].alias}</b>`);
	msg(w[game.player.loc].desc);
	return true;
}

Quest 6 - Giving rooms custom attributes, and checking them later

2021-01-03T02:43:09Z

To move the player, use world.setRoom.
https://github.com/ThePix/QuestJS/wiki/Attributes-for-items#worldsetroomchar-roomname-dir-forced

Quest 6 - Giving rooms custom attributes, and checking them later

2021-01-03T02:15:07Z

[nevermind]

Strange Attribute?

2021-01-02T19:52:13Z

Without hyperlinks, it's just printing the command the player typed; and that shouldn't contain text processor directives anyway.

Oh, I see. With hyperlinks, it's replacing key (which is the object's name as entered by the player) with the link.

Which means your "however" seems to be spot on.

...except if the player entered the first few letters, wouldn't the link be just those first few letter?

Also, I think Dcoder had issues with the text processor stuff in an object's name (or alias), and Quest maybe got updated to handle that in 5.8? (If not, there's some modified code to handle it in his game, I think.)

Quest 6 - Giving rooms custom attributes, and checking them later

2021-01-02T19:41:16Z

game.player.loc will be a string (the name of the room).

That part would need to be w[game.player.loc].foo.

I saw something on the wiki about teleporting the player, but I can't find it now for the life of me. I can't remember the exact terminology used, but something on that wiki says what function to use when moving the player to a different room during play.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T19:22:41Z

@mrangel, many thanks for the simplified code. I've tried it out on the cases that were failing and all seems perfect. I'll use a longer test tomorrow.

Strange Attribute?

2021-01-02T19:18:56Z

KV I don't think that should be the problem. Without hyperlinks, it's just printing the command the player typed; and that shouldn't contain text processor directives anyway.

However, I do think that "{object:" + object.name + "}" should be "{object:" + object.name + ":" + key + "}" in that code; if the player types an object's alternate alias, it should echo what they typed.

Increasing Attribute value is not working for me

2021-01-02T19:03:22Z

I can't see any problems with that.

I know timers don't work properly with precise times; but I'm not sure if using a floating point number for the interval will round it off, or just be ignored.

Does it work if you change

obfreefall1.value = obheight1.value  *  0.0048

obfreefall1.value = obheight1.value  *  3/625

?
That's the same number, but will round off the answer to be an int.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T18:31:16Z

I have no idea why Quest keeps setting the document's min-height to the height of its contents. That should have no effect at all, except introducing pointless white space.

You might as well do something like $('head style').last().append('#divOutput {min-height: initial !important}') in your init script, and not have to keep fiddling with edge cases.

Quest 6 - Giving rooms custom attributes, and checking them later

2021-01-02T17:59:07Z

Anyone know how I would go about giving a room a custom attribute, and then having it checked later?
For example:

createRoom("testroom", {
	desc:"a cool description",
	foo:"bar",
})

if (game.player.loc.foo != "bar") {
        do stuff
}

...While I'm here, I might as well ask if it's possible to teleport a player to another room, and store their inventory somewhere else when they do so.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T16:11:58Z

Thanks K.V. I'd call it a joint effort but I still plan to buy another book from mrangel when I've finished the three I've downloaded already. I'm not currently working on any games so hopefully I won't be bothering the forum for a while.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T15:33:02Z

Hurray!

After reading through mrangel's posts in that old thread, that seemed like the fix.

So, mrangel technically solved this one.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T15:06:17Z

Many thanks K.V. I've used your new code in place of the old, tying it specifically to tidying up after panes are removed, and everything now looks perfect. I've uploaded a new version of the game and it seems to be coping with every sequence I throw at it. I'll try playing through to just before the end and then undoing back to the beginning. It'll take a while!

Strange Attribute?

2021-01-02T14:48:59Z

 <function name="HandleCommand" parameters="command, metadata">

This part:

        shownlink = false
        if (game.echocommand) {
          if (metadata <> null and game.enablehyperlinks and game.echohyperlinks) {
            foreach (key, metadata) {
              if (EndsWith(command, key)) {
                objectname = StringDictionaryItem(metadata, key)
                object = GetObject(objectname)
                if (object <> null) {
                  msg ("")
                  msg ("&gt; " + Left(command, LengthOf(command) - LengthOf(key)) + "{object:" + object.name + "}" )
                  shownlink = true
                }
              }
            }
          }
          if (not shownlink) {
            msg ("")
            OutputTextRaw ("&gt; " + SafeXML(command))
          }
        }

https://github.com/textadventures/quest/blob/2e521f35b4e780ae440b0b43a34e20794e7c0adc/WorldModel/WorldModel/Core/CoreParser.aslx#L44

This line: OutputTextRaw ("> " + SafeXML(command))

It looks like it doesn't use the text processor when that is unchecked.

You could try changing it to msg("> " + SafeXML(command)), but I did not test it.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T14:21:44Z

Man, I really wish I remembered doing all this. I have no clue where I came up with that code in UPDATE 2.

Anyway, it has something to do the min-height of the "divOutput" element.

Running this in the console after the undo makes the whitespace go away:

document.getElementById('divOutput').style.minHeight = null

So, try adding this line at the end of your undo script:

     JS.eval("document.getElementById('divOutput').style.minHeight = null")

Increasing Attribute value is not working for me

2021-01-02T13:05:19Z

get input {
    if ((IsInt(result))) {
      obheight1.value = ToInt (result)
    }
    obfreefall1.value = obheight1.value  *  0.0048
    msg (" Recorded {obfreefall1.value} Seconds")
  }

[Solved] Quest 6 - "can't access property "onCreation", hash is undefined"

2021-01-02T11:36:18Z

I would have suggested the same; it seemed odd to declare a local variable res and then discard it. But haven't seen the docs on this and wasn't sure how Quest 6 handles it.

Now I look at it, that seems an overly verbose way to create a template. To me, this seems both simpler and more intuitive:

const CYBERDECK = (procslots, memslots, driveslots, jackslots) => $.extend({},
	TAKEABLE_DICTIONARY, {
		procslots: procslots,
		memslots: memslots,
		driveslots: driveslots,
		jackslots: jackslots
	}
)

or even

const CYBERDECK = (procslots, memslots, driveslots, jackslots) => $.extend({
	procslots: procslots,
	memslots: memslots,
	driveslots: driveslots,
	jackslots: jackslots
}, TAKEABLE_DICTIONARY)

Increasing Attribute value is not working for me

2021-01-02T09:11:53Z

The variable prints to screen as it should, such as - Time to Ground: 24
And I've been using IsInt and InInt as per above.

Timers and Timeout works fine when I enter a number as seconds, but not when I set it to expression and enter the variable.

Strange Attribute?

2021-01-02T09:08:59Z

(Quest TA 5.8)

What does the "Display hyperlinks in commands" checkbox under the "Room Descriptions" tab of the game object do?

This checkbox corresponds to the Boolean attribute game.echohyperlinks (default setting is true).

I couldn't find an answer on the forums (or barely a mention). The reason I ask is that if I uncheck it (set to false), some of the object aliases in my game (that use text processor directives) fail to display properly.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T08:29:32Z

Hi K.V., Happy New Year!
Sorry, my posting was lazy! I should have provided code. I've now done that in the game where I noticed the problem:
https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/e4hrqb_vpeo4np1a0jel9g/l-too-another-mathemagical-adventure

To see the issue:

run the game online and type ABOUT to bring up a couple of pages of text
type CLEAR, which just uses ClearScreen to remove the text
type UNDO, which seems to insert the white space occupied by the text as a side effect of undoing CLEAR?

UPDATE
The problem seems to be in the code I use to restore the state of the game after UNDO, rather than UNDO itself, linked to code you gave me to deal with white space appearing when game panes are swapped out:
https://textadventures.co.uk/forum/quest/topic/w7mtakf7ykixomwl09kjfw/pain-with-panes-issue-3-expanding-whitespace

I'll experiment further!

UPDATE 2
You gave me the following code in 2018 to tidy up white space when taking out game panes:

JS.eval ("var reHeight = 0;  $('#divOutput').children().each(function(){reHeight += $(this).height();});  $('#divOutput').css('min-height',reHeight);")

Unfortunately that seems to fail after the use of ClearScreen. For example, in the posted game:

Type PANES twice to move panes in and out, showing all is fine
Type CLEAR
Type PANES twice again

On the second use, when removing the panes, white space appears. My easy workaround is to remove the use of ClearScreen but I'd love to know what was causing the problem?

[Solved] Quest 6 - "can't access property "onCreation", hash is undefined"

2021-01-02T04:32:50Z

Ah, right. Thanks!

[Solved] Quest 6 - "can't access property "onCreation", hash is undefined"

2021-01-02T03:27:38Z

Hello.

You're going to be mad . . .

You have to return res at the end of your function. This works:

const CYBERDECK = function(procslots, memslots, driveslots, jackslots) {
	const res = $.extend({}, TAKEABLE_DICTIONARY);
	res.procslots = procslots;
	res.memslots = memslots;
	res.driveslots = driveslots;
	res.jackslots = jackslots;
	return res;
}

createItem("cyberdeck", TAKEABLE(), CYBERDECK(1,1,1,1), {
	loc:"coffee_table",
	examine: "Your cyberdeck. It has slots for one processor, one stick of RAM, an internal drive, and, of course, a neural jack.",
})

BUT, since you extended the TAKEABLE dictionary in the template, you can leave the TAKEABLE() out of createItem, like so:

createItem("cyberdeck", CYBERDECK(1,1,1,1), {
	loc:"coffee_table",
	examine: "Your cyberdeck. It has slots for one processor, one stick of RAM, an internal drive, and, of course, a neural jack.",
})

REFERENCE

https://github.com/ThePix/QuestJS/wiki/Custom-Templates

Increasing Attribute value is not working for me

2021-01-02T01:34:27Z

Are you sure you're waiting long enough for the timeout to trigger? It could take a few seconds longer than you expect.

I assume that you've checked the variable is an int.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T01:21:59Z

I played around with this for a few minutes.

I don't think UNDO should have anything to do with what text has printed or what text has been cleared. Otherwise, logic would dictate that UNDO should clear the text printed out in response to each action being undone and restore any text cleared due each action, and that would be illogical.

[Solved] ClearScreen White Space Issue (was UNDO Issue)

2021-01-02T00:52:30Z

Hello.

I assume that any operation that uses ClearScreen can't be fully undone if any text has been cleared

That depends on how you define "fully undone".

There are a few people around here who will probably say making cleared text reappear is not UNDO's job. ( I'm not particularly saying that, but I don't have much of an argument against it, either.)

Regardless of that, I think there's probably a way to undo screen clearing. (I'm thinking about the way the transcript stuff works, but I can't think about it clearly enough to effect a solution right now. (I've been fooling around with the next Quest, and I just realized I've forgotten quite a bit of old Quest-ese.))

I don't want to sound negative, but I wouldn't bet that such functionality would ever be added to Quest 5 (although I may be mistaken). If you find a solution to this, you would probably have to include the code in each of your games.

is it possible to detect that this has happened within UNDO and give a warning?

I don't fully understand this question.

Do you mean that the screen clears after entering UNDO? If yes, this probably depends on the script that invokes ClearScreen, but I think you could code that script to check the current command before clearing the screen.

now also noticed that there is a 'white space' problem when undoing past an operation that uses ClearScreen, as the space for the text is restored but not the text itself!

It seems like I remember someone mentioning this previously? ( I ~~might be~~ am crazy, though.)

Opinion(s)

I am quite fond of UNDO (and making it fully functional), but, now that I've thought about it, I wouldn't call this thing with ClearScreen an UNDO issue. I would opine that this is something which should be handled by any author who chooses to clear the screen with ClearScreen during play -- an offense of which I have been guilty on numerous occasions.

Instead of using ClearScreen in a parser (especially a parser that has the UNDO feature), perhaps it would be better to print out a blank div which is the height of the output element. This is how the old text adventures did it (I think). It has the same effect, but the player can always scroll up to view everything printed during play.

I'm pretty sure this would look odd in Quest, though.

EDIT

I'm pretty sure this will do that ("that" meaning: create a screen full of whitespace):

msg ("<div style='min-height:100vh;'></div>")
msg ("Your screen just got cleared the old way!")

EDIT 2

Tested and approved (although it does act a little funny).

[Solved] Quest 6 - "can't access property "onCreation", hash is undefined"

2021-01-02T00:26:51Z

Hi,

I'm getting the error mentioned in the title whenever I try adding a custom template to my game (and adding an object that uses that template). I'm not entirely sure how to fix it, so here's what I've tried so far:

The original code:

const CYBERDECK = function(procslots, memslots, driveslots, jackslots) {
	const res = $.extend({}, TAKEABLE_DICTIONARY);
	res.procslots = procslots;
	res.memslots = memslots;
	res.driveslots = driveslots;
	res.jackslots = jackslots;
	
}

createItem("cyberdeck", TAKEABLE(), CYBERDECK(1,1,1,1), {
	loc:"coffee_table",
	examine: "Your cyberdeck. It has slots for one processor, one stick of RAM, an internal drive, and, of course, a neural jack.",
})

And the code after I tried to fix it myself:

const CYBERDECK = function(procslots, memslots, driveslots, jackslots) {
	const res = $.extend({}, TAKEABLE_DICTIONARY);
	res.procslots = procslots;
	res.memslots = memslots;
	res.driveslots = driveslots;
	res.jackslots = jackslots;
	
	res.onCreation = function(o) {
		if (!o.isAtLoc(game.player.name)) {
			list.push("Take")
		}
		else {
			list.push("Drop")
		}
	}
}

createItem("cyberdeck", TAKEABLE(), CYBERDECK(1,1,1,1), {
	loc:"coffee_table",
	examine: "Your cyberdeck. It has slots for one processor, one stick of RAM, an internal drive, and, of course, a neural jack.",
})

Increasing Attribute value is not working for me

2021-01-01T20:49:30Z

Thanks.

Just 1 more question but - I'm trying to use a variable as a interval for a TIMER, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
I tried creating a timer "freefall1" , then using "Set Timer" and "Enable Timer", as below:

SetTimerInterval (freefall1, obfreefall1.value)
EnableTimer (freefall1)

I've tried a timeout:
SetTimeout (obfreefall1.value) {
msg ("My Timer")
}

I'm sure it's something basic...

Exporting as a HTML5 archive?

2021-01-01T03:20:36Z

...Plus, I'd need to know where to get Quest 6.

Exporting as a HTML5 archive?

2021-01-01T02:47:24Z

Well, if I haven't really started my project yet, surely switching to 6 would be easier.

Game stylesheets?

2020-12-31T19:08:32Z

You can change the appearance easily; maybe you happened to try a few text adventures from authors who don't think that much about it.

Most of the games I've made are tests for some feature, so they look the same. The exception is Circus, which is a remake of a game I played in the 80s, so I made it look as much like the Commodore 16 version as I could.

Exporting as a HTML5 archive?

2020-12-31T19:08:28Z

6 is built with this functionality in mind, but it's a different system, yeah. It's currently working, but the GUI editor is a work in progress, and converting between 5 and 6 is also WIP and may never be 100% perfect.

Exporting as a HTML5 archive?

2020-12-31T18:27:43Z

The frontend of a Quest game is HTML and JS. The backend is a server-side application; so Quest needs to be installed on the server.

Quest 6 games can be exported as an HTML archive; but that's a completely new system.

Exporting as a HTML5 archive?

2020-12-31T14:16:05Z

Let's say, for example, I feel like hosting my game on another site, that only accepts uploads as .zip files, containing an index.html file, etc. Is it possible at all to export my game as a HTML5 archive? I remember reading somewhere that Quest is for making HTML5 games, so it seems logical that it should be able to.

Game stylesheets?

2020-12-31T13:59:57Z

Hi! I've just started using Quest to make a text adventure, and one thing I've noticed while checking out a few of the ones other people have made, is all the text adventures, appearance wise, all look pretty similar, while the gamebooks often have flashy stylesheets, among other things.

Is this a gamebook-only feature, or can I make my text adventure look pretty, too? I'd rather not have Times New Roman on a white background when I host my game.