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Yes, anything on the F3 menu that has stats is created without them in 0.5.0, because when I rewrote the menu code I stupidly thought to myself, "terrain doesn't have stats, so nothing on the terrain menu needs stats created for it. I'll omit the 3 lines of code to do this and make KevEdit run ...

Woah, Nanobot, you haven't been around for almost as long as I haven't. Thanks for the feedback. Making kevedit help files is easy. It uses the same format as ZZT, with a few extensions. Just stick .hlp files in the same folder as kevedit.exe, and you can link to them with syntax like: !-filename;Te...

The F4 text entry bug has long been fixed, but never released. Sorry. I'm working on sprucing up the scrolling dialogs like the file and board dialogs right now. These were all built on the same code base, making it very hard to do special things like jump to a filename by pressing the first charact...

Better music parsing would be nice, and I do hope to implement some basic "object code testing" feature eventually. Perhaps this would be a good way to get that started... Unfortuntely, KevEdit doesn't have a configuration file yet, and it's going to be tricky to do it in a cross-platform ...

I didn't realize !msg;text was valid in an #if, but I guess it makes sense. I'll have to update the OOP parser. Thanks. Nobody seems to like the colour scheme (I've nick-named it "rusty"). I do have plans to make KevEdit theme-able in the works, but it's a pretty big overhaul. Editing the ...

The DOS version of KevEdit is still available, and it lets windows handle fullscreen mode just like any other DOS program, if that's what you're after. Of course there are drawbacks to the DOS version...

I'm getting tired of the ancient ZZTAE vs. KevEdit debate. The truth is, neither editor is clearly superior. I can't do anything for ZZTAE, so I do what I can to make KevEdit its best, but I can't do everything. KevEdit is more difficult to use than ZZTAE. But once you get used to it, you can do man...

I just spent an hour thoroughly answering all your questions, and then my browser crashed. I had copied everything to the clipboard in case that happened, but then every application I tried pasting to crashed too. So you get the short version instead: The code has to be human readable. A dialog woul...

This would just be a semantic change, but what if we use the command "%use" in place of "%set". For example: %marquee 10 %use lborder < %use rborder > %use caps 1001 %use idles 3 Hello %end marquee And instead of "%set checksum 345A2", just "%checksum 245A2", ...

If it helps, you can duplicated from a distance by modifying the xstep and ystep of a duplicator. There's more information on this in the KevEdit documention, I believe.

okay after reading this i'm pretty sure this entire thread is a big joke between all the posters to make up a whole bunch of shit that sounds real. Actually, I'm seriously interested in implementing this. Don't expect anything right away, though -- school is pretty rough right now. Besides, this is...

Excellent idea, CyQ. A simple XOR of each character (ignoring newlines) should be good enough, since this is just a precaution, not a security measure. That will make it very simple. Comparing the previously generated code to whatever would be generated is definitely overkill. It costs too much time...

I just took a look at how ibag works, and don't know if integrating ibag is a good idea. It generates some external files for sharing across boards and is really much more complicated than I care to deal with. Maybe some other time. I don't think requiring globals to be in the first object would be ...

Hmmm... I like using %set for marquees (not %label value because that could conflict with future % command keywords), but it takes up too much space and doesn't resemble anything in ZZT-OOP. Let's see what options we need. We can ditch cycle because you can just use a #cycle command yourself if nece...

I was thinking more along the lines of generating complex multi-line code; things like marquees and inventory systems. But I can see the use of single-line shortcuts, especially in the example you give. Just to be precise, when the editor loads an object with shortcuts, it finds all lines matching t...