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Masamune

I wasn't sure how to classify this... It's not really a bug, and only sort of a feature request. I was wondering(, mburch,) if there was any chance of making the NCB tag for descs work at multiple layers... Like this:

{B100 "{B101 "Bits 100 and 101 are set" "Bit 100 but not 101 are set"}" "Bit 100 is not set"}

From a coding standpoint, it seems like it would be the easiest way to make AND and OR-type constructions in descs. Of course, you are probably not really keen on the idea of doing ANYTHING more/different with the code

I'm not sure if this has been brought up before... Search didn't seem to yield anything relevant. Of course, if this is deemed a new feature or too much of a tweak, I'll simply drop it. Too bad I wasn't in on the beta... This never would have gotten past me!

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Aprosenf

Just a quick question I'm curious about - if you wanted to have { or } be part of the text string, would you type it as { or } or is that not possible?

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Masamune

I know you use " for quotes, so almost assuredly you use { and } for brackets.

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Kame

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Originally posted by Aprosenf:
**Just a quick question I'm curious about - if you wanted to have { or } be part of the text string, would you type it as { or } or is that not possible?

**

I'm curious why you would use {} over parenthesis? Those really aren't common in text/dialogue.

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mrxak

Since this is very easy to get around with {bxxx "blah1" ""} {bxxx "blah2" ""} {bxxx "blah3" ""}, I don't think he'd do it, even if there was going to be a new version, and if he was willing to add features.

(Edit: and yeah, I think somebody already came up with this idea...)

(This message has been edited by mrxak (edited 08-12-2003).)

UncleTwitchy

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Originally posted by mrxak:
Since this is very easy to get around with {bxxx "blah1" ""} {bxxx "blah2" ""} {bxxx "blah3" ""}...

As a sidenote, I use this quite extensively in the dëscs in SFA, where the first field represents the original series era, the second the period between Star Trek the Motion Picture and Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan, and the third for events following STII.

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Masamune

mrxak, with all due respect, {bxxx "blah"}{byyy "blah"} is not totally equivalent to nesting. It works fine for OR, but if you have text that depends on two bits, then you are out of luck.

What I would use it for is a little more complex- I have a series of bits that are set in succession, but the bit before is not cleared- if you want to have text for only the highest-rated bit shown, you have to use a nested structure, or else use more bits. But with my set-up, the more bits option is not viable.

Oh well. Just a thought.

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(This message has been edited by Masamune (edited 08-13-2003).)

Andcarne

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**Since this is very easy to get around with {bxxx "blah1" ""} {bxxx "blah2" ""} {bxxx "blah3" ""}, I don't think he'd do it, even if there was going to be a new version, and if he was willing to add features.

(Edit: and yeah, I think somebody already came up with this idea...)

**

The probllem I find, which is causing me to make about 2 times more missions in this one section of a rather large project, is that you cant nestle a Gender check inside a bit check... It would be VERY nice to have this, and would save so much effort in certain circumstances. Otherwise you have to have a mission do the bit determining and the dialog do gender...

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