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I remember tha last year, CYS had spellcheck on storygames. Was it removed while I was gone? because I can't see any spellchecks on my grammar mistakes.

Also, I'm planning a storygame that may need some special scripts. You see, I want the character to have some "missions" available, each branching out into their own options, but after you finish a mission, you go to the mission screen again.
So far, it's easy and I can do it, but how do I make the already-compelted missions to disappear ( or at least become unavailable, or better, hidden) and new ones to be available after certain others are completed? Also, can I change the text in the mission selection screen after certain missions, to allow me to insert info about future missions? Or do I have to make another mission selection for each possible choice? (after my calculations, over 80.000 pages only for mission selection)

Thank you in advance.
Steve_Greg, formerly known on CYS as the infamous "Marmotlord".

Spell check has never corrected grammar.

All spell checking before was done by whatever browser you are using. Now we have a "real" spellchecker.

Yes and yes. There are link options that allow you to restrict and hide/show links based on a variable's value (which you can change when a mission is done).

This is the way how.

To change the text on the page, you'd use the page script and the $PAGETEXT variable.

This is how to do that.

Yes,thanks, but I want somethnig a liiitle more complicated. you see, I mentioned missions. Some missions can be done again endlessly, while other can actually be failed and can be tried again, and I do not want to limit the played to a number of times a mission can be done.

Also, these missions award the played with "money" (it's actually a counter of how well they did), and I dunno how to implement that and money rewards after succesful missions ( and also money loss after failed missions).

Also, i want to make multiple playable characters, which means that after you complete all your missions as a certain character and you choose another one to play ( or the same one, if you want to improve your score) the "money" counter must RESET, and again, i'm too much of a dumb newb to know if this is possible and if it is, how exactly to do it.

Also about the spellcheck, for example, i wrote "msision" instead of "mission" in this message, and any spellcheck would have detected that.It happens to me during storygames too and I don't know what to do to activate this spellcheck.

"Msision" appears on mine as spelled wrong just fine.

All of the things you said can be done using the method I mentioned, with the link I provided. You just have to figure out the logistics behind how you want it to be done. You didn't read the article if you think it just explains how to limit links.

Resetting things just has to be done manually. In a link or page script you'd have to set each variable back to their default value.

Make a variable called MONEY. Add and remove points from it on whatever link they press to return to the mission screen.

Variables explained here

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ok, got the variables and scripting, but still can't do spellcheck, and i sometimes type fast and do a ton of mistakes, and it's tedious to go through pages and pages of text, correcting stuff.
How do I make spellcheck work?
(btw, I'm using IE8 browser --stop laughing-- and spellcheck worked one year ago on it.....)

When you go to post a message, there is a button that looks like an "ABC" with a checkmark under it, and an arrow beside it. Clicking that should give you the option of enabling it as you type.

Alternatively, you could type out what you want in Microsoft Word first, then just copy and paste it into the pages as you go.

Also for the love of humanity use a real browser....

Found the button, and because i use IE it requires me to download the spell checker..... and since changing my browser is not an option for me, I'll just download it. 7 megs is not big deal.

Funfact: after writing this message i had to write it again because it was underlined almost completely. Yeah..... 

 

You can post the message even if it is underlined lol. Spellcheck is just meant to show you the things you missed while typing.

I know but I want to improve my fast-typing, which  is the actual cause for my horrid grammar mistakes.

 

Also, the Spellcheck doesnt work in the Storygames themselves.

Yes it does.

You just have to make sure it's activated again.

No it's not.

I'm typing in my storygames and i don't see any red underline, altough all i do is type '"mfjk zzlb myuncleisgreen ", which appears underlined with the red grammar line only in the forum.