Re: Inform problem


Tue, 14 Mar 1995 01:53:48 GMT

Brendon Wyber (cctr120@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz) wrote:
: Howdy

: Jason Dyer (jdyer@indirect.com) wrote:
: : Anyone know why when I take out the box, it works, but when I put
: : it in, it doesn't?
: : if (self.time_left==2) {
: : "You feel somewhat warm as the fire continues to move \
: : forward.";
: : box "He thought he could feel skin curling black on that agonized"
: : "hand, the flesh crisping and dropping away until only charred"
: : "bones remained."
: : " -- Frank Herbert, _Dune_";
: : }
: : ],

: When you go...
: "Hello world";
: it means print "Hellow world" and then return true... so thus the box command
: is never executed. I take it that is your error message. The solution is
: to add the print command. eg
: print "You feel som...

Nope, it's more along the lines of:
Error in line 42-- ] not a variable
Error in line 42-- ] undefined
Error in line 42-- cryptic message I don't understand
(add about 10 different other weird errors)

Error in line 32-- box__label not found

And if I take the box out, everything is normal again.

And yes, I have tried it with the print in it.

In other words, I think it's a bug.

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