Hello
I’m coding on OS X Lion and the latest build of Inform 7, but now that I’m doing my first Glulx project I noticed one rather annoying problem: whenever I hit “replay” or “play to here” in Skein, a “pause the game” that requires the player to press space cuts off the replay. Pressing “play to here” multiple times seems to work, but it’s annoying. Is this a known bug / is there a workaround?
I take it that you’re using “Basic Screen Effects by Emily Short”. You could try adding this to your source.
To pause the/-- game:
say "[paragraph break]Press ANY KEY to continue.";
wait for any key;
clear the screen.
This will allow any key to be pressed rather than just the spacebar.
Hope this helps.
I’ve encountered this too. I usually only use pause at the beginning of the game so I can comment it out for testing.
Actually, now I come to think of it, I’ve come across something similar before. However, it’s only when importing files into the skein which include the spacebar key. I find that adjusting the “pause the game” code to work for any key and then not using the space key is a good workaround for this.
All right, thank you - I’ll have to tweak that a bit. As it is now, testing a game is pretty damn annoying 
If you do that, can I suggest excluding the arrow keys? A pet peeve of mine is when games interpret my scrolling activities as please-clear-the-screen activities.
Well, it doesn’t work for me. But maybe it’s because I’m using a glulx boxed quotation.
The “replay” button works up to the first “press WHATEVER YOU MAY SEE FIT TO to continue”.
Yep, crap - seems like that for me too. This is actually quite a nasty problem, since debugging a game got just a whole lot more difficult. The interesting thing is that with z8 projects it works without a hitch. Methinks a bug report is in order.
For the time being, you can do this:
[code]Section 2 - Not for release
To pause the/-- game:
Do nothing.[/code]It doesn’t have to be section 2, but you get the idea.
This is the technique I used as well when I ran into this problem today. Works great! Thanks for the tip.