I looked at that. I found the inform6 language confusing and limited, and inform7 not at all suited to writing programs (as opposed to games, which it of course handles well). Please have a look, though, since I could have been completely wrong or read the wrong tutorials. Also, user interaction could be difficult; we could not present lists and menus to be used in the usual ways, instead we would have to rely on the users typing commands or, at the least, pressing single keys or letters.
On 1/3/12, Joseph Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, mostly programmers: > > While chatting with one zthe listers, the subject of interactive > fiction came along; this person says she plays InteractiveFiction > games. Then I thought, "perhaps could we use inForm language to > write other games?" Well, at least self-contained games, which > require no access to file systems (FS access requires the SDK). > At the moment, I'm investigating on learning inForm 6 (at least > that's the interpreter version we have on KeySoft) and perhaps > creating our own programs. If we learn this language, we can > come up with a host of games (card games and others) that we can > run on KeySoft 7.0 and higher and could be a transition step to > access to SDK (if HW will come up with it later). Even though > this language is geared towards creating games, it could be used > (theoretically) to do all sorts of things (except write to > files), thus expanding a list of utilities that BrailleNote can > handle and to present user-created programs to fellow BN users. > Thanks for your considerations. > Cheers, > Joseph > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
