Is there a way to detect whether a TADS 3 file uses the Web UI or the regular UI, without running it?
A WebUI game will always contain a reference to the tads-net intrinsic function set in its Function Set Dependency List Block early on in the file. A game file without such a reference can never be a WebUI game.
(Note however that the presence of a reference to tads-net does not guarantee that a game uses WebUI: a ‘regular’ game could, in theory, make arbitrary network requests. I doubt that scenario is all that common, though.)
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Interesting! Thanks. That’s probably adequate for my purposes, as I’m pretty sure Gargoyle and any other interpreters using the Glk port won’t have support for any of the TadsNet system.
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For the record, rgrep TadsNet in my if/bin/tads3 (practically a mirror of ifarchive/games/tads, 45 tads3 story files) gives 7 hits, all clearly marked being web versions:
Il file binario 2019/lilGriff/TheLittlestGriffinWeb.t3 corrisponde
Il file binario 2017/devildetl/devil_in_details.exe corrisponde
Il file binario 2016/homopn/homeopen_web.t3 corrisponde
Il file binario 2014/satchild/saturns_child_web_ui.t3 corrisponde
Il file binario 2014/it/it_web.t3 corrisponde
Il file binario 2014/venice/venice_web.t3 corrisponde
Il file binario 2014/dedmans/Dead_Mans_Party_Web.t3 corrisponde
so, I estimate that (r)grep can be good as rough detection…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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