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- > From Sat Jan 07 13:45:46 1995
- > Date: Sat, 07 Jan 95 13:45:46 GMT
- > Message-Id: <1689@beckmann.demon.co.uk>
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- > To: John@beckmann.demon.co.uk
- > Subject: Failed mail
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- Date: Sun, 01 Jan 95 20:31:31 GMT
- Message-Id: <1666@beckmann.demon.co.uk>
- From: John@beckmann.demon.co.uk (John Carpenter)
- Reply-To: John@beckmann.demon.co.uk
- To: amos-list@access.digex.net
- Subject: HyperText and Other Problems..
- Lines: 38
- X-Mailer: PCElm 3.1 (1.6 DIS)
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- Okay, next ones ...
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- 2) I have also written a game with a large hypertext driven help system.
- Unfortunately, I just cannot get the Interface HyperText commands to
- work properly. It's VERY VERY near to working except that occasionally
- (meaning usually almost immediately, but sometimes it lasts a page or
- two) the display corrupts and the computer Gurus. I think at one point
- I got the whole thing to work except that when you clicked the button
- marked EXIT it not only exited the help system, but also Gurued (gurud?
- erm.. did a guru). In the end I had to rewrite the hypertext things so
- that it could be used with the Read Text command - but this is
- completely crap as I can't customise it at all. I want proper buttons
- like HISTORY, PREVIOUS PAGE, CONTENTS, EXIT etc..
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- 3) When using Interface (again), how do I change the colour of the
- scrollbars? In the manual I can find no reference for how to do this,
- but in the help docs on the disk there was a mention of a command that
- would do this, but I couldn't get it to work. It was something like
- SetScrollbars (ie SS) or similar..
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- 4) Have the InactiveLists actually been written in Interface or am I a
- complete idiot (or both)? I just can't get it to work!
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- 5) I haven't actually got any extensions at all (except for the Amos Pro
- compiler). I downloaded Turbo something from the internet but couldn't
- get it to work. In fact it crashed Amos every time I loaded it and I
- had to get a text editor out to edit the configuration!! Am I doing
- something incredibly stupid? Also, what's this intuition extension? It
- sounds intriguing! Is it a genuine "write Amos program with incredible
- ease which can pop up on a Workbench screen" or is it one of those crap
- "make your Amos programs look exactly the same as all the other boring
- looking programs ever written using intuition"? If it's the former,
- please tell me more! Are there any other decent (preferably public
- domain or cheap) extensions? Sorry about this, I'm sure you've already
- been through all this crap but I've only just subscribed!
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