Hello,
Is there a way to check if an element is already shown?
I'm trying to build an automation script to simplify usage,
but I got stuck when there are 2 kinds of textboxes (per say) shown at the same time (because its of different assets)
for instance when there is a textbox A shown, when textbox B is going to show, A should be hidden first.
but if I should hide A straight away before its being shown, it will generate errors also.
again.. is there a way to check if an element is already shown?
Hi chilly,
welcome to the forums!
I'm afraid there's currently no way to check whether an asset is shown.
What kind of errors do you mean? Warnings on the console can in most cases be safely ignored. They are just a way to help you debug your story if something's not working as expected.
If you really need this functionality right now, it might be possible to write a plugin that does what you want.
Can you give more details on what's going wrong? Thanks.
Oh my .. I was dropping this for too long.. a year pass by like a blink of an eye. I sure hope this project is still active.
Unfortunately I no longer have the sample of the problem I encountered above. What happens was when I display a
and consecutively I display a
using diffrent textbox in
Code:
<character name="a" textbox="tb_a"/>
and
Code:
<character name="b" textbox="tb_b"/>
the
doesnt get hidden, and was overlapping with
.
Right now I have another project with WSE, maybe if something like this should happen again, I will certainly report.
In fact now I have several new questions (which can become improvement ideas)
1. I have a project whereby a physical novel (consist of hundreds of pages) that I want to convert to visual novel. Is it possible to load the story partially like in ajax call instead of loading the whole thing in the beginning? (it will certainly take forever to load) I am aware of scenes, but if I understand correctly, although I have 100 scenes, I still have to load all assets of 100 chapters in the beginning.. right?
2. I have a responsive story engine in mind. Is there a way to dynamically paginate lines on the fly?
I am aware that I need to elaborate more to my questions.. but its not very easy to write in a few simple lines.. Is there a way to communicate with you better than by forum? (like chatting/skype)?
Hi chilly,
that's not a bug but the normal behaviour. The textboxes don't depend on each other so that you can potentially show 2 textboxes besides each other. If you want textbox A to be hidden when you write something to textbox B you currently have to hide textbox A yourself with the
command.
No, there's no way to check an asset's state at runtime, unfortunately.
1. In the current version, yes. There has been some work on allowing loading of assets for each scene separately, but it was integrated into another development branch where there have been massive changes to the engine's core. I'm not sure when this will make it into the official release because there's been a lot of work on the current branch of the engine and the loading-per-scene feature probably still needs work. Having said all that, a novel with hundreds of pages will still be only a few hundred kilobytes big, so loading that won't be any problem. How long loading of the assets might take depends on how many different assets you have there. With modern broadband connections this might still be feasible.
2. No, there ain't. As far as I know there's no built-in way to check how much space text takes in HTML+CSS. There is with HTML canvas, though. It might be possible to use a hidden canvas to calculate that and split too large a text into multiple line commands automatically. But no, right now there's no way to do that without writing your own textbox asset.
Please wrap any XML tags with
tags in the future. I have edited your post so that it is actually readable. The forum software lets you input HTML directly, that's why you can't just use words wrapped in angle brackets.
Since this is not the first time I get requests for Skype or another chat program I decided to open an IRC channel for this forum where you can chat with me:
https://iiyo.org/f/discussion/58/iiyo-irc-channel
#irc #wse #textbox
whoa.. not only its still active, its a quick reply too..
Thanks for the info.. how does the "another development branch" going? can you provide a link ? I want to take a look around :-)
also I'm wondering.. if I am developing a system to comply with current version, would it be a hassle to port to the "another development branch"? or should I better wait until the new one comes?
I'll take a look at the IRC soon. Cheerz
https://github.com/jsteinbeck/WebStory-Engine/tree/0.4
No, I don't think it would be much of a hassle. The big difference from the story writer's perspective is that you specify your assets in the scene they get first used. I still don't recommend using it, yet, because it has all of the nasty bugs found and fixed in the 0.3 branch (e.g. the savegame system had some serious problems).