split graphics window

[deb]

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hi,
is there any way to (in tads 3 - but presumably just using html)
divide the output window of a game so that one half constantly has
graphics (similar to traditional commercial text games such as those
by magnetic scrolls and level 9 and some by infocom as well). as it
is, all i can do is make graphics on the actual text window, which
scroll away with the text. thanks.

 

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"Deb" <green4231@yahoo.se> wrote in message
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> hi,
> is there any way to (in tads 3 - but presumably just using html)
> divide the output window of a game so that one half constantly has
> graphics (similar to traditional commercial text games such as
those
> by magnetic scrolls and level 9 and some by infocom as well). as
it
> is, all i can do is make graphics on the actual text window, which
> scroll away with the text. thanks.

I've never experimented with this myself, but this sounds like
something you could probably do with the <BANNER> tag in TADS3 (or
HTML-TADS2 for that matter). There should be some HTML-TADS
documentation that came with the standard TADS 3 distribution you
can look it up in.

-- Eric

 

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"Eric Eve" <eric.eve@NOSPAMhmc.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<cdvopa$pvi$1@news.ox.ac.uk>...
> "Deb" <green4231@yahoo.se> wrote in message
> news:ce3c9b01.0407241410.7289c0dd@posting.google.com...
> > hi,
> > is there any way to (in tads 3 - but presumably just using html)
> > divide the output window of a game so that one half constantly has
> > graphics (similar to traditional commercial text games such as
> those
> > by magnetic scrolls and level 9 and some by infocom as well). as
> it
> > is, all i can do is make graphics on the actual text window, which
> > scroll away with the text. thanks.
>
> I've never experimented with this myself, but this sounds like
> something you could probably do with the <BANNER> tag in TADS3 (or
> HTML-TADS2 for that matter). There should be some HTML-TADS
> documentation that came with the standard TADS 3 distribution you
> can look it up in.
>
> -- Eric

though when i try the tag for <banner> it tells me that i should use
the banner api instead, since banner isn't supported in tads 3. there
seems to be little documentation on the "banner api" anywhere. how
does this function exactly?

Debbie.

 

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green4231@yahoo.se (Deb) wrote in
news:ce3c9b01.0407241410.7289c0dd@posting.google.com:

> hi,
> is there any way to (in tads 3 - but presumably just using
> html) divide the output window of a game so that one half
> constantly has graphics (similar to traditional commercial text
> games such as those by magnetic scrolls and level 9 and some by
> infocom as well). as it is, all i can do is make graphics on
> the actual text window, which scroll away with the text.
> thanks.

Yes, this is possible. You can split the screen into so-called
banners using the banner API, rather like a website layouted using
frames.

Note that the <banner> HTML tag from TADS 2 (and earlier versions of
TADS 3) is not supported anymore, and banners now work, to some
extent, on non-HTML interpreters (the status line is a banner, too,
I presume).

The banner API is described in t3banner.htm.

~a

(Follow-Up set to raif)

--
kitzapoo {at} gmx {dot} co {dot} uk

 

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"Deb" <green4231@yahoo.se> wrote in message
> though when i try the tag for <banner> it tells me that i should
use
> the banner api instead, since banner isn't supported in tads 3.
there
> seems to be little documentation on the "banner api" anywhere. how
> does this function exactly?
>
Mea culpa! I should have looked at the TADS 3 docs more carefully
before replying (but at least I've shown I was telling the truth
when I said I hadn't tried <BANNER> for myself!).

But anyway, it looks like Ally's given you the correct answer!

-- Eric