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3R85 (26 June 2006, a rapid replacement for a mis-uploaded 3R84)
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(Mac OS X only) Direct "Install Extension..." option added to the File menu.
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(Mac OS X only) Extension documentation auto-updated when any file added to
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the extensions area, even if dragged by hand in the Finder.
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(Mac OS X only) Bug fixed that was causing Inform projects sometimes to appear
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as directories, and to fail to open on double-clicking.
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(Windows only) Differences between the game's current text and the blessed
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text in the transcript tab are now underlined.
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(Windows only) The transcript is now saved in the same format as the OS X
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application. (This means that any blessed transcript text saved from an
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earlier version will have to be recreated.)
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(Windows only) The source tab now correctly colours nested comments.
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(Windows only) Entering a carriage return with the shift key held down no
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longer results in text that the compiler rejects.
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(Windows only) Setting the focus on the game tab by clicking in it with the
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mouse now keeps the input cursor on the input line being edited.
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(Windows only) Added a warning dialog to the "Bless All" button on the
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transcript tab.
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(Windows only) The bless buttons on the transcript tab are now disabled if
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there is nothing to do.
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(Windows only) If the registry DWORD value
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"HKCU\Software\David Kinder\Inform\Start\Open Last Project"
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exists and is not set to zero, then when starting the application just
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opens the last project, rather than displaying the splash screen. If the
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registry DWORD value
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"HKCU\Software\David Kinder\Inform\Window\Clean Up Indexes"
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exists and is set to zero, then when closing a project the index files are
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not deleted. (Based on patches by Dan Shiovitz.)
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Documentation on newly installed extensions, not yet used, is now much
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fuller. This breaks the impasse of "can't use this until I read the
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documentation, can't read the documentation until I use this".
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Examples:
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"Abolition of love": removed comment that shouldn't have been there
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"Bruneseau's Journey" slightly modified for tidiness
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Minor errors exposed by the improved type-checker fixed in "Prague",
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"Glass", "Crusoe", and "Underlying"
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Extra commentary and new material added to "Laura" to explain parsing of
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complex phrases better
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"Would you...?" added to demonstrate checking for the existence of a
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property
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"First Name Basis" added to demonstrate how to assign synonyms to objects
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"Tiny Garden" added to demonstrate a very simple implementation of
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continuous space
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"Equipment List" added to demonstrate and explain variant inventory styles
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"Tense Boxing" added to demonstrate past and present tense rules more
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completely
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"Grilling" added to demonstrate a supporter from which the player cannot
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take things
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"Removal" added to demonstrate a revised taking report
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"Nameless" added to demonstrate an ASK verb that works on objects, like
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SHOW
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"Stone" added to demonstrate rules used as properties of things
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Extensions:
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"Basic Screen Effects": minor errors exposed by the new type-checker fixed
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"Locksmith": added yet more rule names; substantially updated to provide
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better defaulting and add a "keychain" kind; advanced to Version 2.
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"Rideable Vehicles": added rules to prevent mounting when already mounted,
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and to convert the exiting action to dismounting; added example.
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Two new adjectives, "on-stage" and "off-stage", have been added to the stock
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of those built in to Inform. See 7.9 in the documentation, "Removing
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things from play", for more on this; in particular, note that the
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previous reference in 7.9 to testing whether a thing is "somewhere"
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has been withdrawn. (This led to numerous difficulties with ambiguity,
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and in any case was not very explanatory.) We now test whether a thing
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is "on-stage" or "off-stage".
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Type-checking for conditions has been substantially rewritten. This mainly
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affects "if", "when" and "now", but other phrases too, and generally
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makes Inform stricter: for instance, "if the time since Escalating Danger
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began is greater than 1" used to work - but now I7 points out that a
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time cannot be compared with a number, and insists on "1 minute"
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rather than "1". This picked up minor errors in "Glass", "Reliques of
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Tolti-Aph" and the examples "Underlying" and "The Prague Job".
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The check removing rules have been rewritten. Previously, these duplicated
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the check taking rules, almost right down the line: in effect the two
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actions did the same thing, though being reported slightly differently.
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In the new version, a new rule called the "convert remove to take rule"
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actually converts the action from removing into taking at an early
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stage: the practical effect of this is that any before or instead
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rules written to cover taking now also cover removing. This is good
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because it means one no longer needs to remember to cover both these
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actions to be sure of handling the case of an actor picking something up.
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The scope of the "removing" action is changed so that if something is part
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of X, then it is in scope for "remove -- from X": previously, only
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the things inside X qualified. Being in scope for the action does not
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mean that the attempt to remove the part will succeed, of course, and
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it will normally fail the "can't take component parts rule": but being
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in scope does mean that the designer can write rules to allow removal
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after all.
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Problem messages improved for mysterious problems arising from trying to
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use local "let" variables in substituted text which turns up elsewhere
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in the source, i.e., in places where those variables do not exist.
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Problem message added if two rules are being added with the same name.
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Fixed bug which caused negated conditions in the past and perfect tenses to
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fail: I7 would read, e.g., "if the box had not been open" as "if the box
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had been not open", which would generally be true much more easily.
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Fixed bug whereby actions declared without any mention of what they applied
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to (e.g., "Requesting help is an action out of world." rather than
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"Requesting help is an action out of world applying to nothing.")
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would sometimes lead to spurious incompatibility Problem messages when
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grammar is defined for the action. To clarify: from now on, an action
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which does not say what it applies to, applies to nothing. (This is
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tacitly assumed by some of the extensions source text already.)
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Fixed bug in which I7 allowed names with double-quoted text in, only to
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crash at the I6 stage; when the cause was actually a misunderstanding of
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the punctuation rules by the user.
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Fixed bug to do with names beginning with the word "kind", such as "kind
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gentleman".
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Fixed bug which caused properties declared by the "(called ...)" text in a
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new relation to have not quite the right type, causing odd type-checking
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problems elsewhere.
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Fixed bug in which negatively phrased implications would sometimes be read
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as if positive (e.g., "Scenery is never cold" is an implication not an
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inference because it concerns all things which have a given property
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at the start of play, not all things of a known kind; and it was being
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misread as if "Scenery is always cold").
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Fixed bug to do with initialising variables whose kind of value is
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"miscellaneous-value" or "string-of-text" (though the author of Inform
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wishes people wouldn't use hacky internal kinds of value with hyphens
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in the name, really).
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Fixed bug in which spurious problem messages occasionally occur when
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giving grammar which specifies only one of two required things to
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which an action will apply; and generally improved the previously
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uninformative "not compatible" grammar Problem message.
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Fixed bug in which "now" does not always set properties correctly.
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Fixed bug whereby Problems in the final chunk of a text with substitutions
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used explicitly as a value were not always reported.
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Fixed bug to do with relative clauses in property values (which are not
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allowed, but used to cause an internal error rather than a proper problem.)
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Fixed bug in which errors on grammar verbs were sometimes reported quoting
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the previous Understand... sentence in the source, not the one in which
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the error occurred.
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Fixed bug in sentence-breaking, whereby text ending with sentence-closing
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punctuation, immediately followed by a single word sentence in which the
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word was capitalised, would cause that single word to be ignored.
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Fixed bug whereby "else" was not always equivalent to "otherwise".
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Fixed bug to do with permissions for the "initially carried" property.
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