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The article is on my "submitted" list and it IS very long and extremely detailed.  It looks good to me, but I'm going to have solostrike take a double glance at the scripting and approve it. 

Is that okay with you solo?

march

Okay, ive edited the article, nothing major, mainly formatting.

Some things, If you notice the basic scripting article, it has all those nice and pretty icons and whatnot, i would like this article to have that because the article is truly an awesome source for story-making. However, I do not want you, tsmpaul, to go into your article and do all that stuff, that is my job. I will do that at a later date. I believe that making pretty is not as important as people actually reading it and getting the content from it, d'oh. So if i could, i would publish it right now! The only thing that is stopping me is the formatting of letters like bolding, and sizing. For some reason, what i punch into the editor, pops out completely different in the preview. Like i made something "Large" and the heading turned out small.

And so thats why i am not accepting the article yet, i need someone (i.e. march or nate) to go in and format just the headings and spacing.

The formatting could be weird because I copied and pasted it from Mirosoft Word 2000, rather than formatting it in the article editor. I used styles in Word to do headings. I don't know if that has something to do with it or not.

$PAGETEXT := $PAGETEXT + "Hit Points = " + %HITPOINTS

$PAGETEXT := $PAGETEXT + "Hit Points = %%HITPOINTS%%"

are just two ways of typing the same thing. With the + sign in front, it is being used outside of the " " which define page text. With the %% %% on either side of it, it is between " " inside of the page text. In basic and visual basic, you can't do %% %% around the variable, you always have to use the variable outside of the page text, using the + sign to 'add' the variable to the text, so I guess I do it cause it's habit from programming.

Do you write it with all the extra %% symbols everywhere? I find it so easy to get bugs creeping into the page text when there's lots of variables involved, if I have to type dozens of % symbols all over the place. Miss one, and the whole page displays wrong. Keeping the variable outside of the page's text " " means I know it will always display correctly. Only have to type 1 % instead of a bunch of them.

Not to mention saving on variables. Instead of making a new variable every time you want to do an equation, just to display an answer. Of course, I'm repeating things people already know, but I love illustrating things and just can't help myself:)

Using lengthy %% way (have to type two lines):

%VARIABLE3 := %VARIABLE1 + %VARIABLE2
$PAGETEXT := $PAGETEXT + "The answer is %%VARIABLE3%%"

Keeping it simple on one line:

$PAGETEXT := $PAGETEXT + "The answer is " + (%VARIABLE1 + %VARIABLE2)

When it's the difference between a 50 line script or a 100 line script that takes twice as long to type, I'd always choose the simple way over extra variables and %% symbols everywhere. Anyhow, now that I've bored everyone with a quick rant, I'll let you all get back to whatever you're doing :)

Reply to the first poster in the thread, and then it wont indent so much. I use your method, tsmpaul, i find it easier to + %variable rather than writing in all those %% symbols. Except for me its not a matter of cleansiness in my script, and make it easier to read, i do it because im too lazy to hit the shift key and the 5 button so many times... lol.