textblocks

[Pertex]

Hi Alex,
I played around with the code a bit with the help of AI and implemented the text blocks I mentioned earlier.
Maybe you can use it, if not, just delete it. That's how I imagined it.

Adding textblocks to the setting menu and to the editor "Add..." menu
Blocks can added to the game by choosing them in the Add...-menu or by pressing ctrl+shift+1 (+2, +3...). Hmmm, the keyboard shortcuts will ony work on Window-systems, I suppose.

[alexwarren]

Interesting. At the moment I'm not fully clear how this would be used. What are some examples of the text blocks you use yourself - are they templates for using some Handlebars helpers for example? I can certainly see we could have some way of integrating those a bit better, though I don't think it should be up to game authors to have to configure these all themselves.

[Pertex]

There is text I often use in my Squiffy5 game ( but will be the same with Sq6)
Something like

{@quest_xxxx=1}[Neue Quest erhalten](Questbuch)}
{if xxxUserName=empty:Abenteurer!}{else:{xxxUserName}!}
{@quest_xxxx=3}{@score+=1}[Quest erfüllt](Questbuch)}

or even complete sections:

[[5252FlussAngeln]]:
    const fische = squiffy.get('fishing');

    if(squiffy.get('fishingAktuell')!=null){
        squiffy.ui.write('Ein kleines Angelpäuschen wäre jetzt nicht schlecht, aber Du trägst noch einen Fisch mit Dir mit.');
    } else if(squiffy.get('quest_fishing')!='1'){
        squiffy.ui.write('Du könntest hier angeln gehen, aber was solltest Du mit dem gefangenem Fisch machen?');
    } else if(fische!= null && fische.includes("5252Fluss")){
      squiffy.ui.write('Du hast hier schon einen Fisch gefangen. Probiere, anderswo einen anderen Fisch zu fangen!');
    } else if(squiffy.get('inventar_angel')=='1'){
           squiffy.ui.write('Du setzt Dich ans Ufer und wirfst Deine Angel aus.'); 
           squiffy.set('_sectionToGo','5252Fluss');
           setTimeout(function (){location.href = "https://heroica.xxxx.de/fishing/index.html?level=wtz";}, 1000);
    } else {  
        squiffy.ui.write('Im Wasser schwimmen viele Fische herum, doch ohne Angel wirst Du nicht an sie heran kommen.');
    }

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I must always search the code to copy and paste it to the new sections

[alexwarren]

Ah ok, so this is specific to each game, rather than something that you would use across different games?

I wonder if maybe we could have a way of defining these "macros" in the game source file itself. You could always copy macros across to other game files too if they're useful there.

[Pertex]

yes, most codeparts would be specific to a game.
“Macros” sound interesting, even though I can't imagine how they would work right now.

[Pertex]

These should not be functions that can be started for execution, but rather the code must be copied to the actual location. The code is then adjusted manually.

[alexwarren]

Got it. "Macros" was just me suggesting a name, I think these would just be static text. A better name is "snippets" - looking into implementing this now..