Nil Value

Take I

I've set up the Icon strip

My food is being cooked now.... ;)

Better

Take IV

Fine-tuning with coordinates

Not bad, but a few tiny fixups are in order

Take III

Identifier issue

The icons and the stuff the boxes should contain is not yet in there

Workbox UI setup

No crashes happen

Let's go for it!

All I can check is if the game won't crash during the start up now

The startup loader will load the icons

As far as I can check this works

Take II

Let's see

Da fuck?

A quick test must tell me if this works, or not!

Base config

FINALLY!

Take VII

Fixed that!

FINALLY AN ERROR MESSAGE THAT MAKES SENSE!!!!

THEY DO EXIST!

Take VI

I hope

When the computer wants an excuse to make sure it doesn't work, it will make sure it doesn't work!

Take V

Well I am at least sure that this is a fix, but does that fix the entire bug

Wait a minute I think I found it

The error thrown now makes even less sense

If this happens there must be something else that is wrong, but finding that when the computer lies, is hard... Next to impossible.

The erroor thrown is a lie... How do I know.... the line the traceback pointed to would have thrown the same error immediately on calling the game routines as a whole if there was even the slightiest hint of truth there....

Take IV

Illegal property

Take III

Ah yeah, I had to bypass a certain routine

Take II

Unknown identifiers

Take I

Of course, all you'll see (for now) is a blank screen, but that blank screen tells me all I need to know for now!

Now everything should be linked in full....

Linked to the field routines

Now we're almost there.... Now I need to make sure the field callback function is written and the link is fully established into the field flow (and not just to the underlying core features).

It's hard to work when the cat is sitting in front of your screen.

And now from Party also fully established

Call back setup made for clicking party members in the character bar

I only noticed that I have more trouble concentrating than I should have...

I have no clue why... All I can do is write for tomorrow to link the party bar at the bottom to the Field Menu

It's not yet linked to the interface

Link module setup

Now the field menu will both act as a flow as as a sub.... This to make it possible for the combat menu to pop up some stuff, rather than to go to this menu entirely... This is not as hard as it seems, especially not now that I have an engine functioning better than NALA could on this depertment....

And not yet accessible at all, also

Which is now only a blank screen linked to my debugging system

A basis has been set up for the field menu

Small Adaption done to Neil

Well this will do for now....

Well! That works! I wonder why I had some mouse trouble on my debug scripts, though

Things are not working the way they should.

Let's see how this goes

Scripted the enemy spots

Let's see if that's true

The script should show me the spot for

Empty script created.... I need that to see the markers for Random Treasures and monsters.... It's not that likely I'll change their setups, but still for debugging I must be able to see them properly.

Time is short today, so I cannot do much

Now I did say that I was thinking about the combat engine, but I think it would be more prudent to get onto the field menu first... And that menu may also cause me a lot of headaches... The inventory screen in particular....

PFWEW!

Take XXXIII - And that should now be the final take.... I hope!

I've brought Briggs back

And checkup stuff has been dummied as well

WalkTo debug I no longer need

AT LAST!

Take XXXII

AHA! Type error on function declaration!

Take XXXI

Syntax error

Take XXX

DA FUCK!

Take XXIX

More debug has to get me on track (I hope)

This cannot be....

Take XXVIII

Ah.... Wrong C-string-expression

Take XXVII

The boolean variable just doesn't contain a value???

Take XXVI

Force What does this do?

DA FUUUUUUUCK!

Take XXV

I MUST know now!

Take XXIV

This way then?

Take XXIII

Syntax error

Take XXII

I wanna see what happens now... Crystal does walk to the correct position, but ONLY if the distance between her and Wendicka is less than 96 pixels (causing her to get no further walking instructions)

Take XXI

It's getting late... Forgive me!

Illegal Function Call

Take XX

Debugging the hard way then.... :-/

And now Crystal does NOTHING at all!

Take XIX

Crystal walks in all directions, except where she HAS to go.... Let's try to work this out with some extra routine and more debug crap, as I am still not sure what she's doing!

Take XVIII

Moar debug data must give me answers

Crystal does walk but doesn't seem to understand where to go to AT ALL!

Take XVII

I've now dummied to protection code

Crystal appears and so does Wendicka and Wendicka can even walk around

Temporarily I'll only spawn Crystal.... Briggs will be done if I can get Crystal to work

Compiling

I hope

I've brought the ID numbers (which are always unique) into the dominance mapping

I think I got the solution to the invisble actor thing.... All values the dominance map bases itself on are the same for all three actors... This must have caused a conflict....

That at least brings Wendicka back

Temporarily dummied all code, and now I wanna see what happens next!

Take XV

Let's fist turn off the follower.... Let's see how things turn out now

Take XIV

Will THIS work then?

Take XIV

let's force a few things through

Take XIII

A few debug lines

Well?

Take XII

I do not know if this confusion caused the misery as it should not have hidden the leader, but hey, who knows

The leader tried to follow itself

Does this new approach make any difference... Take X!

For some reason, only Briggs appears, and Wendicka and Crystal are nowhere to be seen... Odd!

A different approach to prevent needlessly long logs

Take IX

Illegal class usage

Take VIII

Wrong type on declaration

Take VII

Illegal Function call

Take VI

Alias

Take V

Call to non-existent class members

Take IV

Update callback for MapScript activated

Nothing happens... At least no parse errors, and that's worth a lot, but what next?

Take III

This is remarkable as it implies no more compilation errors are there... Did I outdo myself, or is this merely the recipe for a bigger disaster than I can imagine?

Unknown identifier in mapscript

Take II

False variable

Take I

Only one way to find out, I suppose

Hard to tell if this will work

Correct sprite should appear now

Because this is the only dungeon in which I need that.

I do need to deal with the sprites, though, as this is not automated, as it is for the player sprites

I've set up the Yaqirpa's Follow-The-Leader system

Link functions

HasTag for MapLinking

AT LAST!

And take VIII

A few more checkups

Yup! And that's something I AWLAYS fall for!

But I think I already know why that is!

Scrolling up immediately goes to the top

Let's see!

I'll run the backup in the meantime in order not to let this time go to waste :)

Hold the show.... I'm gonna watch TV first, as the show I wanted to see is about to begin

Take VII

But fixed I hope

Well that was stupid

I think I got it.... the check up was still within the for-loop, and thus executed multiple times

Take VI

The system keeps bugging on me, but at least the scroller cannot pass 0 any more...

Take V

Force Hopefully this will work things out a little

I guess there's gonna be war about mouse events as this is certainly NOT working the way it should

WTF?

Take IV

Syntax error

Take III

Well let's MAKE it right!

This is NOT right!

Take II

Scrolling up != Scrolling down

Take I

Well, if no silly cockroaches come along the way, I should have more than enough time to test this

The Scroll buttons should work now

Works

Take II

Extensions are required

Let's see now!

The scroll icons should appear in the save screen accordingly

Savegame routine will pick them up

Given the way Star Story has been written I do expect them only to be used in the savegame screen, but you never know where else they can be useful, so it's always a good thing to make them more general... They ain't that RAM eating, anyway.

I've put the icons for up and down into the main loader

Up and Down icons for scrolling

I do follow "Wie is de Mol?" is that limits my time!