Dialog Extension General Discussion

Thanks for the extension, Justin.

Seems that the extra "/dialog" path is what gave me trouble. I had to place Dialog Extention/dialog/dialog into the haxe/extensions path.

You're welcome, ongosub. It seems like it's a little difficult for most to wrap their head around everything the first time. I'll set up a screenshot guide for setting it all up... Or better yet, I'll just make it easier.

bsweileh, It looks like something is wrong with the .nmml being updated by the toolset extension. I'll look into it this weekend.

Hey Justin-
I'm new at Stencyl (Hold the sighs) and don't have the damnedest idea how to use this plugin.  I got the display text, but as far as making text trees, I'm totally lost.  Do you have any kind of a guide posted?  Like...a totally idiot proof one.
Thanks!
Steve

I'm probably going to make some video tutorials soonish maybe

Do you guys want a subforum for the Dialog Extension?

Yeah, sure. That would be nice.

OK, all yours to organize as you see fit.

I've split off some posts into new topics, just trying to keep everything easy to manage. If you asked a question in this topic, check the Dialog Extension subforum to see if they ended up there. Thanks.

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Dialog.get();
for(dgBox in Dialog.dialogBoxes)
{
if(dgBox.getExt("Flow Scripts") != null)
cast(dgBox.getExt("Flow Scripts"), FlowScripts).advanceDialog();
}

Hello Sir! Could you open up this a bit? How would you use it in practice. I did the other parts, but this part confuses me, as I haven't ever done coding on Stencyl. I'm trying to change it so that the <but> would respond to a touch of the screen. So I would be able to touch through  a dialog..

Place it into a code block (Flow > Advanced) and place that code block inside your touch event.

Place it into a code block (Flow > Advanced) and place that code block inside your touch event.

Ah awesome! I'll try that today.

I'm going to spend some time thinking about how the new Image API and Bitmap Font systems can be integrated into this extension. I think I was beginning to overextend the extension before, with a lot of work done on bitmapfonts and image displaying, but now that that's fairly well covered in Stencyl itself, I can rely more on Stencyl and bring the extension itself back to what it should do best.

As a reminder, the best possible way to support this extension is to donate. Thank you.

Hi Justin, really great work man......
But I'm having a problem installing the dialog extension. I don't understand, I did all the steps (moved the dialog folder to plaf/haxe/extensions, and moved the dialogextension.jar to the extension folder), and I closed Stencyl and opened it again, but still, when I go to Settings > extensions, the Dialog extension isn't there!.....What am I doing wrong?

Check out these threads and see if anything posted in them helps.

http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,29492.0.html
http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,29483.0.html

muchos gratitudes Justin