Get Dialog version 0m/01 (library 0.44)! Also make sure to get the companion release, Å-machine tools 0.5.1.
(There is no language version “0l”, for reasons of typography.)
New language features
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(clear old)to clear, from the main area, any text that the player has already had a chance to read. -
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(clear div)to clear, hide, or fold away the current div. -
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(inline status bar $) ...for a status area that appears as an ordinary div inside the main area. The inline status bar is removed from display when a new one appears.
The above three features are optional, and can be ignored by interpreters. They are supported by the Å-machine web interpreter (0.5.1).
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(interpreter supports status bar)and(interpreter supports inline status bar)to check for these features at runtime.
Library improvements
A number of minor tweaks and bugfixes, most notably:
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The default behaviour is now to close doors before locking them. Thanks @ifste!
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It is now deemed unlikely to put something where it already is.
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Certain actions (commands and
[inventory]by default) now preserve the current implicit action as set up by(asking for object in $)or(asking for direction in $). -
Changed
(narrate undoing)to(narrate undoing $), where the parameter is the player input being undone, as a list of words. The default rule prints this.
Compiler improvements
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Frontend: At most ten interface violation warnings are reported.
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Frontend: Increased maximum size of word-to-object maps.
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All backends:
(split word $ into $)and(get key $)now return digits as numbers. Thanks @Draconis! -
Z-backend: If the interpreter doesn’t support the unicode bullet (U+2022), an
*is printed instead. -
Å-backend: Improved performance thanks to new Å-machine 0.5 features.