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- STARDOCK LOCO SDCREATE SCRIPT HELP
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- Q: How do I get running and writing really quickly?
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- A: Figure out your program before you start entering it into the editor.
- Get the logic down on paper, and you will spend less time trying to
- figure out where your GOTO should go to. <-and spend less time
- running the program and trying to figure out why it stops.
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- Q: How do I enter in stuff fast!
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- A: Do it the way I do it. The first thing I do is hit ALT A <ENTER> ten
- times or so in a row.
- Then I change them as I need to. If I need more, I repeat the
- process. This works because the default is TEXT, and you can fool the
- editor and give yourself all the blank lines you need.
- Sure beats going up to the menu for every line that you need....
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- Q: My GOTO is going to the wrong line!
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- A: Actually, it goes to the line after the one you specified. If you
- say GOTO 4, it will go to line number 5. What it really is doing is
- placing itself ready after the line that you told it to go to. It won't
- do that line.
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- Example:
- 0 GOTO 4
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- 4 TEXT
- <--The GOTO will go here!
- 5 TEXT <--and start processing here.
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- Q: How do I renumber the lines in the editor?
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- A: I wrote this sucker overnight, and blew that off. However, you can fool
- it by editing line 0, making it the last line of your program, then when
- it is the last line, re-edit it to be 0. It will renumber everything.
- I figured this worked well enough, so I got some sleep that day...<G>
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- Q: I put a number into the ADD CR field, but all it gives the player is
- gobbledegook? What do I do?
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- A: Take the commas out of the number. The number is formatted for you in
- the game version. I didn't add that to the script RUN IT!! version.
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- Q: I keep having the "Not enough memory for Quest" error? What do I do?
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- A: Try to make the script shorter if you can. Also, make sure that the
- SIZE command has a valid number in it. <-and make sure it is 1+the
- amount of lines in your game. (You must count the 0 line.)
- If you still get the error, you may have too many ANSI screens in
- a row. Check that out.
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- Q: I get a "can't read file error", and I have the file open! Or I get a
- "can't read record error!" What do I do?
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- A: Always re-open the file after you use the RUN IT!! You may see the
- file on the screen after a run, but it really isn't there.
- Open it again and you shouldn't have any problems.
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- Q: My ANSI/AVATAR screens have commands in the middle of them!
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- A: Well, you probably have animation in them. You can get it to work,
- with the animation, but you really have to fool the script editor.
- Try to add blank TEXT lines, or a CLRSCR with a WAIT after it.
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- ****Also, you may want to edit out the last line of the ANSI and strip the
- Continue [y/n/=] out of it.
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- Q: I want more commands. How can I get more commands?
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- A: Write me some e-mail, and I may include them in the next version.
- Tell me what you are looking for: alanen@hvs.mail.com
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