The Dink Network

Ok... I will stop bugging you all soon... D-mod was coming along nicely...
Unfortunately, as soon as I tried implementing a 'show_bmp' procedure into one of my d-mod scripts, everytime I try to play the d-mod.. and click on 'start', the whole computer freezes on 'Please wait (creating a new game)". I then deleted the file with the 'show_bmp' command and removed the relevant graphics... and it's still freezing. Does anyone have any idea what went wrong? It was working perfectly well before and now I'm rather worried about the state of my computer.

Please, help?
Ice.

Doesn't sound like a common problem, so mind shedding a little more light on the matter? Where did you use the show_bmp command? Did you do something to start-1.c? Did you do something to dink.ini? Did you do something to the starting screen of the dmod?

It's probably something in Dink.ini. Send me your Dink.ini and I'll look into it.

I didn't do anything to dink.ini.... nor have I touched main.c or start.c since I last tested it (when all was working perfectly...). I've tried other d-mods (through the front-end) and all is working fine so clearly it's limited to my d-mod...
I've gotten rid of all traces of the show_bmp and it still refuses to work! Aaargh!
I was altering some story.c scripts last night, but I'm not sure if that would have actually done anything... cause it is crashing at the title screen... which I haven't touched.
I'll keep fiddling I suppose... any general advice?

Yes. Make back-ups of your D-Mod weekly.

Lol, thanks...
I've solved the problem though... I had attached a script a certain screen so that Dink said something while entering it if &story was at a certain stage... however, that also happened to be the starting screen, which appears to have thrown the whole thing off.
Fixed! Yaaaay!

Well, check the starting screen of the dmod for anything that might crash the game, and try commenting out any sounds that play when you press start. If it still doesn't work, maybe you should post start-1.c or at least the relevant lines from it here.

When I have scripting problems I can't figure out, I go to sleep and when I wake up usually find out it was something stupid. ^^

It's all ok... the script for the starting screen wasn't all that important anyhow!

Yeah, I noticed, I'm just slow like that. :/ Didn't you just say the problem was something you attached to the starting screen though?