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Hi guys! Another quick question, if anyone can help:

I'm making use of Emily Short's menu system, and am making a Setting Options section. Using the code sample in Inform 7's documentation, I added the Notify Mode for notifying the player of score changes, and thought, another setting that could be useful is having the Verbose mode turn on or off. (I usually prefer to have it on, myself)

This is how my Table of Setting Options looks:




I tried copying the score notification, but changing the wording:




I'm not sure what the correct wording for handling verbose and brief modes is. This brings up these errors:



Any advice would help

Hi there,

First of all, there are three settings for this: brief (the standard mode), verbose, and superbrief (which never shows descriptions). The current setting is stored in an i6 global variable called "lookmode". This isn't discussed in the main documentation, but can be discovered by searching the template document (appendix B on the website). I6 variables are (basically) all numbers, so I've created a new kind of value to make it easier to read. (1, 2 and 3 are automatically converted to standard, verbose and superbrief.) There are also three actions used to switch this setting which can be located in the actions index under "Actions which happen out of world." Try adding this code to your example:Note that the tabs might get screwed up when you copy and paste from this board, so you might have to fiddle with it a bit. I've tried it on my end and it works. You can test it by adding these rooms:Hope that helps!

EDIT: The tabs do get messed up. As long as you replace the "<tab>" in the following code with an actual tab stop, you should be okay.

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Skinny Mike

The people on this forum are so helpful, it's great! I don't think I would have worked that out on my own, so thanks. My story is coming along quite nicely now. I'll have to go and check out that Appendix B template document, and see what other stuff is in there.