I moved the message data to its own group... Makes my code cleaner, and makes it more logical the ENTIRE combat routine accesses everything

Set up the announce countdown... When the move is announce, the system will wait one second before the move is being executed... Should bring a kind of 'rest'

I declared some variables for the announcements of the move to perform

So I decided to do the "Show" section of NJCR, something I orignally planned for the Go version of JCR already, but as those tools will get deprecated as soon as NJCR is fully ready, it won't be added there anymore.

Due to my illness I could not work on the game, and when I felt good enough to do some work, I didn't have enough time to something as complex as the action manager, so that will have to wait for a few days.

And this day is wasted due to being ill the entire day.... Dang!

I had a lot of config this time

Running

Verbose has been added to NJCR

Some link-up code has been done to make performing actions possible. When "playing the game" you won't notice anything drastic yet, though.

And I also improved Kitty with a supported languages list

Cobra support

I had some other Things to take care of today, so I did

Only BlitzPlus lacks a few functions which are actually CRUCIAL to do this... MAN! Does everything have to go like this.... :-/

I've done a few experiments with BlitzPlus... Although I don't like the idea, it appears it's the only option I got left to set something PROPER up....

Although it should never happen I did set up an error thrower for when the gauge value exceeds 20000

Secured end of gauge so I can easily link to the action handler once it's needed

Well, that worked... See, morons... it IS possible!

Take ONE!

Anyway, I need to test if the COM2ACT timer works the way it should

I guess some people never realized that not all coders studied quantum-physics.

Well at least I did the ACT2COM timer.... And I wish I could do more.... (Well if software that both WORKS and is USER-FRIENDLY did actually exist, but it appears I need to make a fully graphical tool to make that happen... Somehow).

I guess I wasted my time on this one.... Writing software that WORKS and is USER FRIENDLY appears to be too much to ask for these days!

And not just one... It appears that ALL outcalls to seperate modules fail....

And BlitzMax NG claims to have a succesful compilation but a link error remains.... (GRRR!)

And Blitzmax claims my processor doesn't support 64bit (which in fact it does... and BlitzMax Vanilla was not even set up to work with 64bit code anyway, so the entire error doesn't make sense).

CodeMirror looked like an easy way to set it up with (the failed language) JavaScript, but they messed up their own file system so even the demos don't work without modifications....

vscode's documentation on this topic only mentions irrelevant stuff, and apparently for many people irrelevant stuff is enough, since all stack overflow questions (or on similar sites) lead to people refering to that documentation that is about everything except the stuff I need.

The fact that I do not have a good editor for NIL bugs me.... The lexer in geany doesn't accept // for comments, and many other editors come with configuration that is too complicated for a guy with IQ120+ to understand

later!

Updated

Updated

Running

This will be all for now, as I still need to keep my cool and relax every now and then... The situation is at least that I can move on to the next stage of development... The COM2ACT timing, and then of course, the action itself.... Wish me luck on that one!

And all errors accounted for (as far as I can currently check)

Bug succesfully avoided

Take XVIII

Let's see.....?

The console shows this entire table is empty.... This should not be possible, so the question is why this still happens

Take XVII

Oh maaaaaaan!

Take XVI

Let's see if I can get a better view on everything now then....

What I see now is that the tag is correct, but that no data has been returned.... Once you've elimited all the impossible, whatever remains, however impropable, must be the truth... The tag's not incorrect, so the data initiator must be....

Take XV

Forgotten )

Take XIV

Let's add a better error thrower for more detailed information!

A "nil" value???

Take XIII

Illegal table readout

Although I'm close, I still don't have my cigar....

Progressing

Take XII

I hope it works THIS time!

It HAUNTS me!!!

Take XI

Fixed now????

Fix ignored

Take X

Illegal API call

Extra take (IX) as I was distracted due to the real life business

At least all parse errors appear to be taken care of, however there is still some stuff to do

And some real life business came my way

Take VIII

Code typo in class definition

Take VII

A case error

I think that works

Take VI

Nope... Let's try it another way

Take V

Let's try this

Which brings us to take IV

And another

Fixes one bug

Another #accept

#accept

Take III

There wasn't want false case, but TWO.... GRRR!

Take II

Case error

I be surprised if this goes well in one go, but we'll hafta wait-n-see, I guess...

Take I

vUpdates

And some real life stuff.... You know how that goes....

First I wrote another chapter here (I'm terribly chaotic... Don't you know that by now)

All that should link this properly, but hey, you never know, right?

And cancelling also possible

Set script back to IDLE

Configuring time gauge

Configuring next hero move

I do hope to put my main focus today on linking the action class to the targeting routines, so the battle can continue once a new move has been fully entered.

I am currently trying to see what I can do about languages such as php where scripting code and HTML code are mixed in one file sometimes. I do have a few ideas though.... In HTML I have similar issues with JavaScript and CSS... The latter is not yet supported at all, and about CSS I'm also not sure how to properly highlight that.

FreezerNick threw me a pull request to allow Kitty to support Visual Basic.... Although I must note that I must sort out if VB is case insensitive or not, although Visual Studio mostly auto-correcting case issues, this may not be that big an issue

My apologies for being gone that long, but I hope you understand, my health ALWAYS comes first!

Not only my mental condition was in my way, making me want to rest, but I also got another of my infamouse headeaches.... I suffer from the latter a lot lately.... :(

I've some mental problems... I hope I can deal with those... if not I may be forced to suspend the project AGAIN (and I don't want that).

Time is still not on my side, but at least I could prepare for the big upcoming operations

Done

A few preps for the action Stage

Another chapter

There's not much I can do, as there are still also some real-life duties, but hey, progress is being made, and that's what counts, right....

I've taken a look a stuff, but it's clear that I should use a different group for the Actions stage, in stead of using the class with a few statics... It's cleaner that way.

Which should link the Actions class into the rest of the combat engine

I've regenerated all anyway linkups

It seems that MKL_Update needlessly adds whitelines to the end of the code... Not supposed to happen, and I wonder why this happens.... So that's a job for Sherlock Holmes....

Set up the actual class for the actions to get a few things on the roll....

Loads of stuff

Created empty script which will deal with actions. This is very important, as no combat action will be possible without the stuff I'm gonna put in here!

JavaScript has been tested... JSON has not

JavaScript and JSON

SASKIA

Blitz Basic

Added support for more stuff here....

Added tag KITTY

I've destroyed a test directory I created for JCR6 extraction in NJCR

Running

Kitty now has (limited) support to highlight NIL, Lua, GINI and C#... adding programming language support which use a basic programming approach like C, C++, Java, Go, Pascal, etc. should be easy now.

Kitty exists as a tool and as a class bundle, and that allowed me to attach kitty to NJCR, and boom, I now got myself a nice NIL syntax highlighter for console usage, and it can help a bit in debugging this game, so I guess it was pretty win-win.

And I've written a simple console Syntax Higlighter named "Kitty"... This as a pun to "cat", and maybe also named after my own cat who also bears that name ;)

I've worked out NJCR some more

For the short term I'll do some work for NJCR first... It was a bit backlogged and I want to get that project done too... Actually before this game is over, as I may even need it for this game... :-/

At least I can say I finished my Septerra Core Walkthrough.

Note something I plan on soon, but hey, the tag needed to be there anyway

Added tag WALKTHROUGH

I will soon resume this project

I need to take a break from this project, but I'll be back soon!

Unexpected stuff.... I guess I was a bit messed up with my calendar

Another chapter

Yup! It works.... So far!

(For this particular thing that is).

Take VIII Should be the final test, then....

Wrong color of the question mark

Gauge would recolor based on selected characters, which should (of course) never happen at all.

A few cosmetic bugs are to be taken care of!

Take VII

Yup, that bug was the one I couldn't find due to this shortening issue in Lua

Misformed definition

Yup, now things are more clear about WHERE to look

Take VI

Parse error in NIL itself.... good :(

Take V

Running my compile script

Must be rebuilt

NIL will make a different way of shortening and hopefully that helps me a bit

Due to the way Lua autoshortens long chunk names, I cannot properly debug so let's do it my way

Take IV

Syntax error

Take III

SUCKER!

Take II

Class object forgotten

Take I

Health bar for selected target and invisible in casual mode if the boss was never fought before.

Blockout in hardest mode for enemies other than tag letter and enemy name

Please note this is all under the hood configuration, the game does NOT yet respond to this!

For the enemies, HP bars will show in the easy mode, be shown in the casual mode only if the player has defeated this kind of enemy before, and never in the hard mode.

For heroes always true, which is only logical, I think

Property ShowHP for fighters in combat

And all the information you'd get if you'd be playing the hard mode is also shown

I cannot work out how well multi-target attacks work, yet, as there are no such attacks right now...

IT WORKS!

Take XIV

Anyway, it's ben fixed!

Aha, the chartag didn't get into the hero compiled record, while it should have been.... Why?

But targetting a character => DEATH!

Targetting enemies works so far (only shows name and letter as I still most code out the rest)

Take XIII

Only having to make more fixes, and I don't like that

Voids a true bug, that I could fix

Solved that issue

Closing in, but not quite there....

Take XII

Should be fixed now

Really! Trust me!

AHA! I am an idiot!

Ignored?

Take XI

For now I'll just set attack to 1F

I need to properly take care of "auto"

Take X

Another

IX

Another bug bites the dust

Take VIII

Should be fixed now!

Take VII

the last take didn't work, but due to other things taking priority I have to make another take to see what is happening

Distractions distractions.... Oh my!

Take VI

self

Take V

I guess the heroes must accept the same things as the foes do

Take IV

Lack of "self"

Take III

#accept was required

Take II