Escapade!
An interactive fiction by Juhana Leinonen (2008) - the Inform 7 source text
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Understand "setting" or "settings" or "setup" or "options" as setting settings.
Setting settings is an action out of world.
Carry out setting settings:
change the current menu to the Table of Keyword Settings;
change the current menu title to "Settings";
change the current intro text to "When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an example of a highlighted word using your current settings: [hint style start]keyword[hint style end][paragraph break]Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that works for you."; [During the game some cutscenes may clear the screen. You can disable this behavior by changing the screen clearing to OFF."; ]
follow the disable keyword setup hint rule;
carry out the displaying activity;
clear the screen;
try looking.
Table of Keyword Settings
| title | subtable | description | intro | toggle |
| "[bold type]bold[roman type] keywords" | a table-name | text | text | the change hint style rule |
| "[yellow letters]yellow[default letters] keywords" | -- | -- | -- | the change hint style rule |
| "[blue letters]blue[default letters] keywords" | -- | -- | -- | the change hint style rule |
| "[green letters]green[default letters] keywords" | -- | -- | -- | the change hint style rule |
| "[red letters]red[default letters] keywords" | -- | -- | -- | the change hint style rule |
| "-dashed- keywords" | -- | -- | -- | the change hint style rule |
| "/slashed/ keywords" | -- | -- | -- | the change hint style rule |
| "*starred* keywords" | -- | -- | -- | the change hint style rule |
| "no keyword highlighting" | -- | -- | -- | the change hint style rule |
| [ | ||||
| "" | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| "screen clearing: [screen clearing status]" | -- | -- | -- | the toggle screen clearing rule |
| ] |
This is the change hint style rule:
if the current menu selection is:
-- 1:
change the hint style start to "[bold type]";
change the hint style end to "[roman type]";
-- 2:
change the hint style start to "[yellow letters]";
change the hint style end to "[default letters]";
-- 3:
change the hint style start to "[blue letters]";
change the hint style end to "[default letters]";
-- 4:
change the hint style start to "[green letters]";
change the hint style end to "[default letters]";
-- 5:
change the hint style start to "[red letters]";
change the hint style end to "[default letters]";
-- 6:
change the hint style start to "-";
change the hint style end to "-";
-- 7:
change the hint style start to "/";
change the hint style end to "/";
-- 8:
change the hint style start to "*";
change the hint style end to "*";
-- 9:
change the hint style start to "";
change the hint style end to "";
-- otherwise:
do nothing.
Show keyword setup hint is a truth state that varies. Show keyword setup hint is true.
To say keyword setup hint:
say "[line break][italic type](You may converse with characters by typing TALK ABOUT <something>. Some of the possible topics you can talk about are [bold type]highlighted[roman type][italic type] in the text; if you don't see the highlights or you want to turn them off, type OPTIONS.)[roman type][line break]";
follow the disable keyword setup hint rule.
This is the disable keyword setup hint rule:
change show keyword setup hint to false;
rule succeeds.
This is the toggle screen clearing rule:
if screen clearing is true:
change screen clearing to false;
otherwise:
change screen clearing to true.
To say screen clearing status:
if screen clearing is true:
say "ON";
otherwise:
say "OFF";