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Okay, I have absolutely no knowledge of scripting or even working with the advanced editor. However, I'm doing a test for a game which I am writing with the advanced editor and I have a question. Is it possible to make variables with a string value? E.g. in stead of displaying LOCK1 is 0 the game would display LOCK1 is Locked, or something like that.
 

%%LOCK1%=%0%The first door is locked%%

You can find more about this on berka's guide: http://chooseyourstory.com/help/articles/article.aspx?ArticleId=3850

You can get around it in the way that galobtter mentions but as is, variables cannot explicitly contain strings.

IF %LOCK = 0 THEN 

BEGIN

$PAGETEXT := "LOCK1 is Locked" + "</BR> + "</BR> + "$PAGETEXT

END

There you go. Enjoy! :D

Oh yeah, make sure to put it on the page script of the page you want it on, not the link script. 

Thank you! It worked, but I decided not to implement the string values just yet as it looks very messy and unprofessional in my game because of the double spacing but thingy.

If you do Shift+Enter you can do normal spacing in your game.

It looks cluttered while you're writing it though.

Alex is planning to fix this though, so I wonder if using shift enter will make you have to go back through everything and replace with normal enters once he does.