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I hate scripting. 

It makes my head confused, gives me a headache, and when that goes away, I can never get it right.

However, I get the feeling I will have to with a story game of mine. It's a Pokemon story game, and I want a variable to appear on the page stating the level of your Pokemon, for example, BULBASAUR 3, saying he is level three. However, this has to be on every page. And if you don't have a bulbasaur, it would be confusing.

Do I have to use scripting to make the variable only appear on pages after, say, page four?

IF $PAGEID > 4 THEN
BEGIN
$PAGETEXT := $PAGETEXT + "Bulbusaur Level: " + %BULBLEVEL
END

That's what it would look like. You'd put it in the Global Page script. The editor can be overwhelming at first, but we can help you out if you're willing.

Thanks. I suppose I could give scripting a try, buts it's not like I'll be doing anything serious with it anytime soon!

You have very good grammar for someone who wants to write a pokeman story game. You should give scripting a try though. I think you can do it.