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Secret PRINT Command Property?
« on: May 23, 2008, 07:16:41 AM »
I was upgrading Al's Text Adventure Template to fix a glitch where the length of the TypeText$ variable isn't always correct, (causing problems with the DELETE command) and I discovered that the ; mark at the end of a PRINT command causes the next PRINT command to print on the previous line. That's a really useful feature! :D

Are there any more secret command properties in GM Al?
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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2008, 09:16:07 AM »
I knew that worked in other programming languages but I never tried it in GM wow that will be really useful.

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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2008, 03:09:20 PM »
I thought that was mentioned in the Help for the PRINT command, but I just checked and it's not. Sorry about that. That feature has been in there since forever.

If you update the text adventure template send it back and I'll post the updated one.
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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2008, 07:03:02 PM »
Ok, I'll post it in tomorrow when I've finished it.
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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2008, 05:29:13 PM »
Thanks. It's on the GameMaker site now.
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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2008, 03:19:45 PM »
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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2008, 08:17:13 AM »
I just tried this all different ways of zipping and uploading and can't get it to work right. Does anyone else have trouble with the Mac built in "Create Archive" feature to make a zip file? Whenever I zip certain files they can't be unzipped. I don't know why. I'm going to go back to using StuffIt.

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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2008, 09:13:46 AM »
You can download the file here:
http://www.savefile.com/files/1570875

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I just tried this all different ways of zipping and uploading and can't get it to work right. Does anyone else have trouble with the Mac built in "Create Archive" feature to make a zip file? Whenever I zip certain files they can't be unzipped. I don't know why. I'm going to go back to using StuffIt.

I've had numerous problems with stuffing and stuffing, on a variety of apps. I find Stuffit the best, but I still experience the occasional problem.
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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2008, 12:53:42 AM »
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I just tried this all different ways of zipping and uploading and can't get it to work right. Does anyone else have trouble with the Mac built in "Create Archive" feature to make a zip file? Whenever I zip certain files they can't be unzipped. I don't know why. I'm going to go back to using StuffIt.

On my old OS 9 systems I always get a "Unknown ZIP header" or something similar when I encounter one of these newer ZIP files, and when I tried downloading Silverwind's QoM, the resource and data forks of each file were split as "filename.mov" and "._filename.mov" files.
Under OS X (10.3) I can usually open stuff just fine, although I haven't encountered enough different kinds of zip compression methods yet to judge whether .zip files work consistently...
The only times I have encountered problems with StuffIt were when the files were in .sitx format...though that's probably because I choose to use an older StuffIt so that I can produce "legacy" .sit archives for wider compatibility.
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Re: Secret PRINT Command Property?
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2008, 02:04:48 AM »
I'm not having any trouble with stuffing and unstuffing.
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