Adv3LitePlus

Authoring TADS
1

Hi,

It’s been a while. Hope all are well.

Looking to dust off my WIP and saw that Eric has 2.2 out. My sincere gratitude and appreciation Eric for keeping this library updated and enhanced. Incredible.

I saw that a new library is available (Adv3LitePlus) and am interested to see if it helps my WIP. I already got it to work with Adv3Lite 2.2, so I know that’s cool.

I’m a bit rusty – age will do that to things – so I was hoping someone could give me the guidance on how to use the new library?

Thanks,

-- Mike

2

First time I heard about this a3lite+: you can elaborate more ?

EDIT: a search with duck (google being too nosy) got no results, but a link raises a doubt: sure you aren’t confusing with adv3Lite periplus (a reorganisation of TADS documentation) ?

Perplexed regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

3

Good to see you’re still active, dott. Piergiorgio!

I got the information from the 2.1 Adv3Lite release notes:

There is now a new library version called Adv3LitePlus which incorporates the full adv3Lite library plus most of the extensions. This may be useful for people who want to explore everything Adv3Lite can do or who are planning a complicated project needing many extended features, in either case without having to add in lots of extensions manually.

I couldn’t find any more information on it, so I figured I would ask.

-- Mike

4

Do you mean this? I found it on the adv3lite GitHub.

5

Hello Mike, welcome back!

To expand on what rh said, I think that Adv3litePlus just refers to a more extensive set of additional libraries.

The “adv3lite.tdb-project-starter” and “adv3litePlus.tdb-project-starter” files (in the root folder of the adv3lite release distribution) differ in that the first specifies “lib: adv3Lite.tl”, whereas the second has “lib: adv3LitePlus.tl”.

The latter library file (adv3LitePlus.tl) contains all the inclusions of the former, and additionally includes these 23 extensions:

source: extensions/brightness
source: extensions/collective
source: extensions/consultsuggs
source: extensions/customBanner
source: extensions/dynamicRegion
source: extensions/eventListItem
source: extensions/factrel
source: extensions/footnote
source: extensions/fueled
source: extensions/lookDir
source: extensions/mobileCollectiveGroup
source: extensions/multimethtia
source: extensions/postures
source: extensions/proxyExits
source: extensions/relations
source: extensions/roomparts
source: extensions/rules
source: extensions/sensory
source: extensions/signals
source: extensions/thoughtsuggs
source: extensions/tiaaction
source: extensions/viewport
source: extensions/weight

If you’re using the Workbench on Windows, you can start an Adv3litePlus project by choosing that as the project type in the New Project Wizard.

6

ah, the expanded .tl …

Sorry that hasn’t occurred to me that Sousa refers to this: back I find it useful for experimenting/messing/fooling with the extensions w/o too much editing with .t3m files.

My apologies for the absent-mindness, and
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

7

Thanks, SJL! This is the info I was looking for, appreciate you!