Typed-in options?

[Flametrooper]

You know how in option dialog boxes you usually have to pick one out of some number of options? Like it HttT after BoP, you get a dialog box asking you to pick either "walk there" or "sail there". What I'm wondering is, if instead of having a "pick an option" thing a box comes up saying "enter an option" and the user has to type something in. This would be best for passcode-type things, so as to avoid lots of messy option wml: The user could just type the passcode in.

[turin]

That would be cool.


If it is done, another useful feature would be a way to compare a string against a list of strings to see which it is closer to - kind of like spellcheck. And/or, something like you would see in the old, text-based RPGs. You type in something, and it scans it for keywords like "move", "go", etc. That might be too hard to code, though.

[kshinji]

Impossible - either to hard or to stupid. Better wait for good open source lingu-bots, and simply use them in wesnoth.

[zookeeper]

I'd say that the user's input should just be stored in a WML variable. Then one can check in WML whether it equals to something, is greater or smaller to something (when dealing with numbers), and so on. Wouldn't be hard to implement I suspect, and would work well enough for password-type situations.

[kshinji]

@turin:

It might work if you first tell player what options can he use.

[scott]

Numeric input would work well with this.

[Flametrooper]

Numeric input would work well with this.

Well yeah, I was planning to have a scenario in my campaign where the player has to correctly enter a 3-digit passcode to open a gate.

Impossible - either to hard or to stupid.

Thanks. You're really nice and open-minded, you know that, you should get a medal.

[Dacyn]

I was planning to have a scenario in my campaign where the player has to correctly enter a 3-digit passcode to open a gate.

uh, I don't see what the point of that is... either the player knows the passcode or he doesn't; otherwise it is just guessing/save/loading. And the WML could determine whether he knew the passcode already anyway...

[Flametrooper]

Passcode would be given to the player via riddles, which he must figure out, and is randomly generated. And anyway, that's beside the point.

[toms]

Something like this would be nice:

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[set_variable]
name=code
input=_"What code it is?"
[/set_variable]

(Based on Flametroopers code entering example)

In other languages similar commands exist too.

[Viliam]

Passcode would be given to the player via riddles, which he must figure out, and is randomly generated.

Depending on the kind of riddle, it may be very difficult to translate them to another language. Especially if the point of riddle is that some word in English has two different meanings, or something like that...

[turin]

Well, yes, puns are stupid in general. But other puzzles (for example, mathematical ones) could be done effectively, perhaps.