Quest 5.8 Additions

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Things added to Quest 5.8 ¹

All issues listed have been fixed in our recent pull requests, with the possible exception of JS.whereAmI().

Things I added:

• transcript
  • SHOW TRANSCRIPT command to view transcript during play in JS pop-up
  • desktop player writes transcript to HTML file in "Documents\Quest Transcripts"
    • ISSUE: enabling the transcript breaks the turn scripts in the desktop player
  • WebPlayer app was meant to save data as JS string
    • ISSUE: I only put a required function in desktopplayer.js; so enabling the transcript throws an error every time text prints in the game because I modified addText to make this "work"
• enter_verb
  • ISSUE: completely broken
• JS pop-up functions (using jQuery-UI)
• clearScreen() modified to hide the cleared text
  • ISSUE: causes performance issues, games progressively slow down when they include good amounts of text
• Log (heavily modified)
  • the desktop's log window no longer received data
    • this was because Andy wished to deprecate request
  • added code to write the log entries to a file in "Documents\Quest Logs"
  • added code to allow log entries be passed to JS.console.log()
  • added code to save log entries' data in JS, to be viewed in-game using the SHOW LOG command
• RESTART command
• AllRooms function
  • all rooms now have isroom boolean attribute
    • ISSUE: This attribute doesn't carry over into published games (because I put it on an "editor" type)
• TELL npc TO text (command)
• multiple commands
  • each command triggers turnscripts
    • ISSUE: an object alias including . will split the commands unexpectedly
• Beta-Testers' NOTE command
  • beginning a command with * will not count as a turn

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Also see:

https://blog.textadventures.co.uk/2018/09/03/quest-5-8-is-out/

http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/quest5_8.html

https://textadventures.co.uk/forum/quest/topic/hpfc9gd6eeknh3tctegx3a/quest-5-8-beta

https://textadventures.co.uk/forum/quest/topic/uxvr19o3fkc0xvkanbgw8g/quest-5-8

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Notable changes in our pull requests:

• transcript
  • desktop now saves as TXT rather than HTML
  • WebPlayer now saves data to localStorage
  • no more command for in-game viewing
• log
  • classic functionality restored
  • no more command for in-game viewing
  • ability to write to file (desktop) and/or pass entries to JS.console.log
• enter_verb
  • completely rewritten and fixed thanks to mrangel
• AllRooms
  • fixed thanks to Pertex
• whereAmI
  • modified to work online when triggered by a command script
  • still not dependable, and it takes a few milliseconds to work completely -- so it can't be used in a script that depends on it
• save command
  • if GetFileURL returns a string that does not start with "quest", it uses JS.saveGame() -- this fixes an issue with divOutput not being restored when resuming online
• multiplecommands
  • fixed based on code posted by Angel

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Concerning DevMode:
I added a few lines to Play.aspx to include the JS files that were included before the final 5.8 release, modified CoreDevMode.aslx to restore the bits that used JS, tweaked one CSS setting, and everything worked perfectly on the testing server.

I haven't included this in a PR, but it really is very nice -- especially online with no Debugger window.

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Every issue listed has been fixed in the current PR, but JS.whereAmI() is still pretty much unreliable -- as far as working the way most people would expect it to work.

Footnotes

1. Copied from this Discord thread: https://discord.com/channels/1278365322054996018/1308643354296193044 ↩