Things work now, and I can also confirm that when I enter the correct credentials the game moves on to the next page

Let's see.....

error disappeared before you could read it

Haste makes waste, Jeroen

Take IV

Failed login does show the error

clicking fields didn't work

Take III

bad arg line

React without clicking

Although stuff will have to wait a tiny bit longer, as few other things came in my way

Well, that issue has been taken care of!

First of all I need to take a natural break on the worst possible moment!

Contact is being made, but there are still a few issues to take care off

Take II

File misnaming lead to Game Jolt routines not being picked up by Neil

Take I

The game should now be able to see if your credentials are correct and to throw an error if they are not.

I've set up a quick script which can easily contact Game Jolt for me... Not to mention that if a good solution arrises to call the API through C++ in stead of this Go program I can just replace this script and all instances calling it should be fine

Apollo will now automatically change directory to the place where the main package file is located. When calling alternate applications (as is needed for the Game Jolt API, unfortunately) this is the better run

I need to think Phil for a good cross-platform "cd" macro ;)

Thank you

I was working on the original game, that would later be remade as "The Fairy Tale REVAMPED", totally unaware of what was happening when a friend of mine made a phone call to me. He demanded I turned on my TV to "Nederland 1", which is in the Netherlands the channel that is always cancelling its normal programming when something really disastrous happens. His story was vague, and hardly made sense to me, but I decided to obey it was very unusual for him to be so demanding. That was exactly 19 years ago today that this happened. And what I saw on the TV was this.

I did soon hear than a plane crashed into that tower and as things were pretty vague, I was wondering about an accident until I saw the second plane ram the second tower with the precision of a surgeon, and I knew that this was deliberate. But I was wondering, what was happening as aside from mass murder this action was also suicide. Very soon already I heard experts speculate on no evidence at all, but only speculations that Osama Bin Laden could be behind these attacks, as he had not only a reason to do something like this, but also the stuff you need to do this. I also remember the theories coming up, like how Nostradamus is said to have foreseen these attacks as the 3rd World War would start with a burning city caused by two metal birds. I also remember how the number of planes flying dropped increasingly as people were struck with fear. Of course, this was the day I truly learned how dangerous terrorists can be, but I still try to get an image of those who lost their lives that days due to the action of some despicable cowards who had the illusion they'd become heroes. I remember an image somebody who jumped out of the window out of fear of the fire, against better judgment as nobody can survive a fall from that height. I do think about these attacks a lot, as I think a lot about many things every day. Their lives ended for nothing while I was lucky not to be in New York or even in the U.S. at all, and that alone granted me the luck to live on. No please not put any anti-islam messages below this post, I will report them to the moderation team. I condemn those terrorists and the organization they belonged to only. Most of all, I have my thoughts with the people who died that day loads of times, and now on the anniversary of these attacks I only want to express them in public. I hope for a world where Christians, Muslims, atheists, Buddhists, well, people of any group or race to live together in a world and accept our differences, or maybe even embrace them.

You may say that I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.
Perhaps some day, you will join us.
And the world will live as one.

Well And that's all for today... I'm tired!

Making sure all repos are up-to-date

Running!

AT LAST!

And NOW it works the way it should

And test again!

So let's do that!

Of course, C++ code only takes effect if you compile that crap first, Jeroen!

Let's see if it works properly now

Ah, the order in which the API got the script parameters was invalid

I see the right text alignment doesn't work

Let's see if that works

Next and Cancel will now appear on the credential screen

Yes, that does the trick....

And test out what will happen

Let's force things here

They are not registered in the gamevars according to the debugger.... Odd, since they are directly set to the metatable linked to this system, so I need to find out why this happens...

For some reason there is a bit of an issue with the Game Jolt credentials

And that glues everything together

Link script

So that has been done

The execution command Lua offers in its newer version is a bit bogus, and therefore I'll have to work a few things out.... Luckily (and that's the advantage of C/C++) there is a SIMPLE YET EFFECTIVE launch command (unlike Go and C#) , so writing a new API should be easy

So far so good, but we're not there yet!

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