Hi friends, I have made the switch-over from M$ Windows to Linux as my Operating System. But I must confess I am a complete "newbie" to Linux and am learning...
Michael! On Unix-systems (and the "terminal" aka. shell) programs are found either by explicitly giving the full path (/usr/local/bin/alan) or through the...
... Instead of changing the PATH, another possibility is to make a symbolic link from some directory already on your PATH, such as /usr/local/bin: ln -s...
... Hi Mike, I hope you're enjoying using Linux and you have got the Alan compiler and interpreter running nicely. Though I'm a little late in replying to your...
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Aug 27, 2006 7:26 am
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Saluton! Von: stevgrif@... ... Actually, at least GEdit has at least indentation and syntax highlighting (although I couldn't find proper docs for...
"Jürgen Lerch"
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Aug 27, 2006 3:53 pm
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Hi Folks, I'm curious how people manage to write an Alan game with a text editor that doesn't wordwrap their text blocks nicely. I find it very annoying to ...
stevgrif@...
Aug 28, 2006 10:11 am
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Writing "Waldo's Pie" -- a fairly big game with many thousands of lines of text -- I mostly used PDE because of its excellent formatting and word wrap. But it...
... PDE? I searched the Internet and found that it is the editor 'plugin' for Eclipse which is the software behind the AlanIDE. But then I realised that that...
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Aug 29, 2006 10:54 pm
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... Yes, that's right, the good 'ol PFE. A slip of the finger produced "PDE". If and when I get Alan working, I think I will be using Kate. The closest thing...
Hi. First off, I'm finally getting into v3 -- great stuff, and the IDE is very nice too. Thanks. I've managed to add the verb "stand" (when not standing)...
... Are you defining stand<space>up as a synonym? I don't think that would work because the synonym mechanism defines individual words that are substituted by...
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Sep 6, 2006 7:38 pm
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... Thanks, Steve. It's been quite a long while since I last worked with ALAN. Multiple syntaxes is what I realized shortly after posting here. Here's the...
... Yes, I agree that the 'You get up' phrase could possibly rile the player. You don't need to define two verbs, eg stand and stand0, if the two verbs are...
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Sep 7, 2006 7:26 am
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Steve's correct on both accounts. Making use of Alans ability to phrase a verb in different ways is a better way to allow player input flexibility than...
... One other thing to mention is that most IF players are aware of the disambiguation problem and will not even try the command, "get up". stand, rise, arise,...
... disambiguation problem and will not even try the command, "get up". ... easily, however. "Stand" and "stand up" are included in my game Waldo's Pie, as...
Hi folks. I am having the dickens of a problem trying to find out what errors the compile finds with my source. Please look at the output from a recent attempt...
If you are using the command line compiler you can try the command line option "-full" which should show you all the source. But probably this will not reveal...
Well, I still am hunting the bug that caused the compiler to miss printing the error messages. In the mean time you can use the "-cc" or "-ide" switch to show...
Hi there, Roberto Grassi from italy. In Italy we're interested to localize Alan. In France and Spain there could be the same need too. Can anyone help us in...
Hi Ben! The message you are getting indicates that the paths to the library file is not correct. I see that you write "I should copy that folder into the ALAN...
Hi International Friends! I am sorry that I have not answered sooner, but this question required some research (into the archeological archives of my mind as...
There's previous discussion about a year ago in the Alan-IF mailinglist archive at Yahoo Groups mentioning Spanish translations by Bruce Humphrey Ventura and...
Hello all, Quick question here - Is it possible to differentiate between an object and actor when one is trying to override a default message? What I want to...
Is there anyone in the Los Angeles, California area (preferably on the West Side) who's authoring IF using Alan? If so, might we start a weekly or monthly...
... [snip] Hi Bruce, Thanks for your email today. I tried to reply but your address was invalid. I was wondering if your message was meant to go to the whole...
Hello At last I fixed the email problem. Basically, what I said (and ended sending somehow to stephen) is: I have come back to IF, and am doing so finishing...
Hi Ben! I strongly suggest that you use the mailing list. There are many knowledgeble Alan users there. This way the chance that you get an answer quickly is...
