The Dink Network

Has anyone else thought it is kind of odd that we have to set the text color every-single-time on every say or say_stop string? Wouldn't this make more sense:

sp_text_color(&current_sprite, 4);

say("I don't have to specify the color!", &current_sprite);

That would be nice, yes.

Wow.

Shevek! Phoenix! You reading this?

This would be so damn helpful. Maybe this is exactly what I would need to get working on my D-mod again!

Oh yes, that would be awesome!

Now that's an epiphany

That would limit the risk of using different colors from the same sprite during a dialogue... Might not be a common problem- but still...

It's one of the reasons I wrote the DinkC_Talk Python script.

You could fake it with:

void main( void )
{
  int &col = 5;
  // Set a property which we can use in other scripts.
  sp_custom("text_colour",&current_sprite,&col);
}

void talk( void )
{
  say("`&col Hello!");
}

Alas, this only works for colour values 0 to 9, because it only reads a single character after ` (but only *after* expanding variables).

And it's actually more of a hassle, but at least it avoids any "oops wrong text colour"-mistakes.

Long story short, that would make sense.

I can see such a simple change being quite helpful for some, but from a personal standpoint I've gotten so used to `#'ing most say_stop lines that I don't have much trouble with it at all, particularly since I keep backtracking to review whatever I script together like a perfectionist.

Seems like a good idea though; Is this epiphany being turned into reality as we speak?