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Re: I7: Possible IDE for iPhone?

2009-11-27T18:53:19Z

These are the top two javascript clients I know of -- there are others
that I'm less familiar with:
[link]
[link]
I think one of those uses a Flash socket for the connection. However
the best Flash client available (there are many of those) IMO is this

Re: I7: Is there any way to use "undo" in a test command?

2009-11-27T17:18:05Z

Or via section-replacement change the UNDO word to something else.
Then the compiler won't catch it.
Mind, when you run the test, UNDO also undoes the current location in
the test script, so it gets stuck in a loop, IIRC.

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

2009-11-27T16:22:41Z

Quite. Give Al a break because he's always been fine with me and has a
good deal more wherewithall than Pudlo.

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

2009-11-27T16:03:35Z

I've made corrections to the game and uploaded it to incoming.
BTW what the hell have you ever written?

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

2009-11-27T14:55:51Z

This may seem like I'm missing your point entirely, so please bear
with me for a bit. The only area of disagreement I have when I first
read this is that you can have great editors -- a form of "tester" --
who are lousy authors (and will admit as much). I've worked with many
such people. In another venue, speaking as a quality assurance

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

2009-11-27T14:17:05Z

Jim Aikin
My assumption is that one is highly unlikely to be a great tester if one has
proven oneself to be a scandalously inept author. This makes your portrayal
of my argument inaccurate and your analogy flawed.
Returning to your initial request, here's a list of excellent testers, all
of whom have the distinction of having tested _Gamlet_.

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

2009-11-27T14:09:30Z

Re: I7: Possible IDE for iPhone?

2009-11-27T12:32:28Z

Fun with AJAX. I wrote the backend for one of these a few years back
for a MUCK I ran.. it's a lot simpler than one might expect, but
there's a lot of little niggles about them that are annoying to
resolve (and I never quite managed all of it, myself). The biggest one
being that generally speaking, for security/access management, you

Re: I7: Possible IDE for iPhone?

2009-11-27T11:44:16Z

Are there? I've been looking for a better web-based client than the
Java one I have now.
vw

Re: I7: Possible IDE for iPhone?

2009-11-27T09:17:36Z

Given that there are javascript mud clients out there, it wouldn't be
too much of a stretch to fold the client and Guncho's web form into a
cohesive interface -- maybe less work than porting the whole IDE?

Re: Commenting in frotz / z5

2009-11-27T08:26:20Z

Script is coded in every inform IF since, I believe, the first releases.
The only difference is that if you use the * commen command while the
script is disabled (a rather unuseful action), a warning message is
shown in place of the usual "comment recorded" message.
bye

Re: I7: Is there any way to use "undo" in a test command?

2009-11-27T07:38:56Z

Oh boy. How silly I am :)
Thank you.

Re: I7: Is there any way to use "undo" in a test command?

2009-11-27T06:46:36Z

Try using the Skein. It operates outside the game, so undo isn't a
problem for it.
vw

Re: I7: Is there any way to use "undo" in a test command?

2009-11-27T05:33:18Z

No, I need "undo" because a scene-changing condition is set after a
series of "bad actions" with custom responses, that I am trying to
basically print to a transcript. I want to roll back to before the
condition is set and the scene changes, after each action is
performed. Any way to do this easily?

Re: I7: Is there any way to use "undo" in a test command?

2009-11-27T05:13:31Z

Have you tried breaking your test script up into pieces? Rather than
always use "test me", it's very easy to do things like this:
Test bomb with "put fuse on dynamite / take match / light fuse".
Test fleeing with "blow out fuse / n / n / listen".
If you break the script up, maybe you won't need "undo".