And a quick chechout shows me the data I wanted to see

I've set up a few routines to speed things up

Well I got the stuff covered to make at least sure a user login is legit

I had to dummy some more

Too bad Go has no compiler directives like #if or #ifdef or whatever... If one language would have gone well by that (and desperately need it) it's Go... Oh well... There's more wrong with Go than just that.

Still a lot on this department though!

Checkups do seem alright now!

Some new data was needed thanks to that

Dug up some data from Game Jolt itself Ineeded

And here I was thinking Go didn't handle it well, forgetting a trivial yet crucial trap I fell in....

Some bugs I got in Go....

Security readout done in Go, however I do not yet know if it works....

I do need to work out some secu read-out though

Untested login

Somebody did tell me to turn my library into a DLL. Since I use Visual C++ that didn't appear to be an option, as the way the Go compiler works is not compatible with the compiler Visual C++ uses. Since CodeBlocks doesn't work on me (it starts and immediately terminates) and VS2019 works, and since I am not much game to sort all C++ IDEs out (there are many, and all work entirely different when it comes to project buildups) I'll have to stick with VS2019 for now... At least I know how to get things done there...

Before I can seriously move things on I need to adept my Go program that opens extra websites for support of using the Game Jolt API (this because all C++ libraries I tried so far refused to compile).
Due to security reasons this program will NOT be open sourced. Now the Go library I'll use is already on Github, so at least part is open sourced, but a few more things won't be.

Now I did take it up to myself to get a few things done in Dyrt as well... It would not do me well if this game was finished before Dyrt was completely done, right?

Added tag DYRT

And NOW to test everything out!

I think I fixed the backspace for space issue

I do need to test it all out though, but first....

I think I fixed the cursor problem

The button works, however the keyboard backspace is registered as a normal space somehow?

Let's see

But for some reason the backspace key is ignored

It works

But I don't know if it's fully gonna work, though!

I've done a little mathematical trick to switch fields with the tab key

Well, let's see

better?

And of course, I gotta see what happens now

a bit of a work out

This clears up a lot

And another go then....

that

CODE TYPO!

Let's see

Hopefully this will make things easier

Hovering effect

I'm a bit through with this, so I guess I need a different approach

I've increased the click field of the "Yes" and "No" buttons as you'd almost think they don't work given the precise clicks you need to do

And another test is in order!

Another Syntax error

And another go!

Syntax error

Poof! Crystal gone... Look on the previous page to find here...

But she can say "I'll be back!"

However another test is required to make sure it is!

The latter should be fixed now as well

The former is fixed now

And not to mention that the keyboard always takes the most lower key in a collumn

Start of test not in order

Let's see what will happen now!

Text position error

Some real life stuff got in the way

Let's see

Added backspace and space

Something you must watch yourself not to act too quickly, eh?

And now it should work

Linked to the general flow

Of course nothing happens

Another one then

Scope error

...

What the fuck was I doing?

...

Clicking the keys won't do anything yet, though

Keyboard should appear

I still don't see a cursor, but I do keep the possibility in mind this could be a little coordinate error and with the black background and the cursor also being black (which would be visible on the skyblue bar) I cannot see that, but I need text to confirm this, and that I don't have (yet)

Take ... I forgot to count, but okay

Hopefully this fixes the field issue I have

Cursor not flashing

Logo conflict

There are some cosmetic issues, however

And now it works

Ah, forgot to rebuild

Why?

Fix ignored

Fixed that

Forgotten index.... That was the likely reason, and that was also the case

However in stead of the field names I get table references on screen

The crash has been fixed

Take IV

Maybe this fixes that?

Given the irreliable thing about Lua documentation, not a complete surprise, yet very extremely annoying

And that causes a complete crash without any form of warning

Take III

Perhaps....

Oh, wait I'm looking the wrong way

This could only happen if an outdated version of Apollo was used, but according to my compiler my code is up to date

What the ...

Take II

Pretty odd code typo

Take I

The Game Jolt credential fields should appear now... You cannot yet however enter their contents.

The system can retrieve the SDL ticks now

And here I was hoping 1 take would be enough.... I knew there was a little viper under the grass (that's Louis van Gaal English... Literal translations of Dutch idioms).

Code typo

Take V

GV redirection error

Take VI

But I think I tackled that one now!

Now the "Yes" button works... The "No" button is ignored

Although I now need to work things out a bit better on a few points, but that is a later concern

NOW this works

Take V

Invalid function definition

Take IV

GV linkup

Things are never easy,eh?

Take III

Whatever

?

Take II

Missing API link

Take I (and hopefully it will stay at one take only)

Question is now... do they work?

Activated "Yes" and "No"

Stages linked to the stage register

This way i can simply east more easily whether or not the "yes" and "no" buttons work

The Game Jolt logo will appear in stage 3, and nothing will be shown in stage 4

Hey, no need to obtain that one anew

Game Jolt logo transferred to Star Story from Dyrt.NET

At least I could do THIS right in one go!

Quick test (I hope)

I've put the "yes" and "no" buttons into the question whether or not to use Game Jolt

Sorted a few things out in my repository

Tons of stuff....

AT LAST!

Linker works nows

Neil did not recognize a few of its keywords as such.... (although it never caused trouble, but still)

Take MCM

a crapload of fixes....

Take I

And a link to the debugging system

Although a simple system to set up, it's not yet been tested, and some thing about data transfer in C/C++ are not fully clear to me, but this will have to do... The gamevars are important after all... I am a bit reliant on what the internet tells me here!

GameVar system

I've set the game to run in full screen from now on... I think I can tackle most of the issues that come up now

A little issue fixed on Directory extraction

TAKE VII

Identifier issue in New Game

That void worked

TAKE VI

I think I avoided that

I see... C++ has no garbage collector so killing states still on the run does not work out well... Let's build in a few safeguards for that....

TAKE V

So I forced a few things

It just doesn't wanna work

TAKE IV

Little conflict?

TAKE III

I needed to import the mouse too

Illegal function call

TAKE II

This should cover that up... A few aliases :P

Ah!

Of course "TAKE I" as I do not know at all if this even works at all ;)

Once the "New Game" section is fully operational, I can fire the official starting shot as then we can finally get to the game itself

And I've linked that to the "New Game" menu item

Script written that will chain the game to the New Game flow

I've set up the first stage of the New Game script... Please note this stage is nothing more but a welcoming note, but still....

So I made a little API that can at least tell the scripts where the game main package is located, and this way, I just have to make sure that Go application is always located in the same folder

Especially when programs are written in C or C++, one may NEVER assume the directory they are started from, however as I am partly dependent on an external program written in Go, Apollo needs to know the exact location of that program.

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"Bye" command

module 255 bug in Neil?

Take V

Syntax error

Take IV

link ending

Egg

Take III

Nope! Nope! Nope! But I got the bugger now!

Take II

I hope I voided this for now

Whatever?

Take I

It's not yet tested, so that will be the next step!

I've set up my debug console interpreter...

Now, to stick with the facts I just rebuild the ARF file

I've linked this now to the Apollo system

Right, deftable has been added

Worked on Neil

Dang!

MUST be... but what is possible and what happens are two different things I see on the background of my screen

Well one strange has should be fixed now

Took me tons of takes to get to the bottom of this and I can't log them all

tons of made up errors

And that concludes THIS part of the story

Right-o

Take XXV

So a bit more was needed

Yet not good enough

better

Take XXIV

More size

Take XXIII

Syntax error

Take XXII