The Dink Network

I think I must have made that "complication" sound worse than it is. The only thing that happens that is main.c dies when it gets to a wait() or equivalent. Any scripts it has spawned "keep running" as normal (which is what I meant to say, that was a confusing turn of phrase though, I admit).

So what I using right now:

//main.c run when dink is started

void main()
{
  make_global_int("&exp",0);
  make_global_int("&strength", 1);
  make_global_int("&defense", 0);
//blah blah blah

// Some Dink 1.08 enhancements. Not required, but so much nicer.

  set_smooth_follow(1);

// Helper script for loading a save game.
  spawn("loadgame");

// Note: fade_up() has a deley, so main.c will die here if we loaded a game.
// That's why I moved it way down to the bottom.
  fade_up();

  kill_this_task();
}

In case you're wondering, the only reason fade_up is even there is as a safety precaution against the screen staying black if somebody loads new game while faded down.

//loadgame.c is launched from main.c
void main ( void )
{
  if (&player_map == 0)
    kill_this_task();
    //Obviously we're not loading a game, bye bye.

//Note: Nothing weird happens here  ->
  wait(1);

// Launch Status Script
// And this was my main goal, a script that puts some extra info on the status bar using noclip sprites.
  spawn("status");

  kill_this_task();
}

That deal where main.c dies at a wait does make me a little uneasy, but as far as I can tell, this works perfectly. Actually this is a little more complicated than it needs to be, I could have done without loadgame.c, but I wanted to keep things tidy in case I had a bunch more stuff that needs to happen on load.