On 12/1/06, Alban Bedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 02:51:34 -0800
"Jesse McGrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/27/06, Alban Bedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:31:18 +0000
> > Stuart J Urquhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> > > Then there's the issue of the font. At the moment the regular verb text
> > > is used, so the conversation options take up more space than they should.
> >
> > I dunno yet how one can set the font used by the verbs, this need some
> > investigations.
>
> From the ScummVM source, it looks like in V6, each verb is always
> drawn with the charset that was selected when the verb was
> initialized. (V8 has an opcode to set a verb's charset manually.) So,
> call initCharset(conversation_charset) before setting up the
> conversation verbs, and switch back to the normal charset before
> printing anything.
I found that too and i think i'm going to rename the function setCharset().
I worked on dialogs a bit too and i just commited an implementation.
Currently it can't handle dialogs with more than 5 choices (ie no scrolling)
but otherwise it work fine.
Interesting. Looks better than the one I was working on. However, one
thing I'd like to change is the way sentences are numbered... if
they're all numbered by the order in which they were added, then you
still have to add empty arrays for all the disabled dialog items, and
you have to count through all the items to find out which number will
be returned for a certain sentence. I'd associate a numeric ID with
each item instead, so you can call dialogAdd(id, text), and then the
number that gets returned is the ID you specified.
Some more compiler support for strings could help here too. The code
gets repetitive having to type this all the time:
sentence = 0;
sentence[0] = "...";
dialogAdd(sentence);
(This compiles, but crashes the VM: sentence = "...";)
If the compiler allocated some of the array addresses for its own use,
we could directly use strings (or lists?) in script calls, and they'd
be passed via temporary arrays:
dialogAdd("foo bar baz");
// same as: TEMP1 = 0; TEMP1[0] = "foo bar baz"; dialogAdd(TEMP1);
Jesse
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