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bupaje · Newbie Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 5

Hello,

I just discovered Visual DialogScript yesterday and am wondering if it might allow me to make some small utilties I had in mind. I was wondering if the following is possible, and if it is, if any samples are avaliable or a basic 'talk through' of what I need to do so I can try with the demo.

I am a new user of 3D Game Studio at www.conitec.com and like here many people share code. I was thinking it might be nice to be able to create a template for code and then have a program -which is what I want from VDS- to read the text file, generate a wizard based on the info and allow users to enter values and output the customized code. Know this sounds confusing so here is an example.

Say I created this code

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

humm i was thinking what ya mean by wizard??? cuase if you are just after making it easyier for the user to make thsese adjustments then you won't need a wizard...just make a mian window that would load the "config file" then the users would click on the buttons that would let them enter in the numbers need or whatever you want them to "adjusted"

i hope i explain this well hard to explain....

Skit3000 · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:22 pm Post subject:

It is possible to write files this way:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

yup that is what i was thinking to Skit3000...a main window that would load the txt then have buttons

Skit3000 · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject:

Maybe you should give an example the next time too? BTW. I had not seen your post(s) before I posted... Think I was too slow... Wink

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

well mater of fact...i was thinking of posting one but ya beat me to it....heheheh Smile

bupaje · Newbie Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 5

Wow! Quick response. Smile

Thanks for the feedback all and Skit3000 for the code. I am going to try this in a minute using the demo.

Just to better explain why I want to generate the controls like that was because some code samples may have say 1 listbox, 1 scrollbar -in other words fewer user changeable inputs and some may have 10-20 variables user can change.

Thanks very much -off to try this. Smile

Burt

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Welcome to the forums Burt.

I changed Skit's code around to fix some bugs and add a few more
features. Also note that when creating strings you should put quotes
around it if it has commas in it. For example:

WRONG!!

bupaje · Newbie Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 5

Thanks FreezingFire. I'm going to try all this when I get home -stealing some time here at work right now. Smile

Looking forward to seeing what can be done.

Garrett · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:19 pm Post subject:

I can assure you that using VDS to make a program that allows for
dynamic wizards is more than possible. In fact, I'm working on a
program right now that does this. It seeks out specific criteria, then
builds a dialog based on what it finds, then allows the user to select
information from a drop down box, or enter information from an input
box.

It's not an easy project though, and you will need to become really
familiar with VDS if you want to make this happen for you.

I do apologize, but at this time I do not have any code I can share with
you for this. Sad

But here's some hints. You'll be wanting to get familiar with the following
functions:

@pos()
@substr()
@strdel()
@strins()
@len()
@sum()
@diff()

Commands that you'll be wanting to look at:

IF/ELSE/ELSIF/END
REPEAT/UNTIL
WHILE/WEND
LIST CREATE
LIST LOADFILE
LIST SEEK
LIST SAVEFILE
OPTION FIELDSEP
PARSE

Those are some of the most important functions and commands that you
will need for this.

If I could, I'd toss together an example, but two things keep from doing
that at this time... The code I have is close to 2500 lines and... I don't
have the time to try and take all of that and compact it into a small
working example right now. Sad

Mainly though, I just want to let you know that this is more than possible
for you to make using VDS.

-Garrett

bupaje · Newbie Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 5

Thanks for the pointers Garrett, I'll check them out. No prob on the code, if you are working on a project I certainly understand. I just downloaded a bunch of samples -be in big trouble if the boss comes in. Wink

I have plenty of ideas -lets just see if I got the brains. Thanks again -cool forum that's for sure as well.

DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

Welcome to VDS, I myself am a new user and am loving it so far.
I think you should be able to do as you ask maybe even more.
The VDS team on this board rock, I know they will help you with anything.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

If you take a look at the example included with the installation of VDS,
called WIZARD.DSC, it might give you an idea of a nice wizard. Smile

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

Welcome to vdsworld Smile

I wanted to comment on 3d GameStudio, for those that haven't tried it, this is one of the best game development packages out there. You can easily create professional 3d games with this tool with ease and since many of us here already have experience with programming using the c type code in 3dgamestudio should be no problem. Okay enough of the infomercial, glad to see you here. I'm sure you will find VDS will work hand-and-hand with 3dgamestudio. Posting here on the forums is one of the best way to get your questions answered, also trying the examples and searching the help file for answers is always a great way to learn as you program.