Hello/hi

Authoring Inform 7
1

I stumbled across a weird problem today that’s probably very easily solved but I somehow don’t get it. I have a few game stubs and when I want to parse “npc, hi” I do it like this:

Check answering NPC that “hello/hi”:
(stuff)

And that normally works, but today I added that to an NPC and the result was

npc, hi
There is no reply.

and turning on the actions resulted in

npc, hi
[answering the NPC that "
[** Programming error: tried to read from -->-1 in the array “parse”, which has entries 0 up to 60 ]
npc , hi"]
There is no reply.
[answering the NPC that "
[ Programming error: tried to read from -->-1 in the array “parse”, which has entries 0 up to 60 **]
npc , hi" - succeeded]

What’s going on here?

2

Hmm, is this showing up for you in a blank project, or is there some other code that might impact the behavior? It’s working the way you’d expect in both Inform 7 and 10 for me, when I check it.

If there’s no other story code that’s interfering, wonder if there’s an Inform installation error at fault?

3

You could check out this thread to see if anything looks helpful. It’s the same error message, but I don’t know if it’s the same cause:

Do I need to worry about this? [** Programming error: tried to read from -->-1 in the array “parse”, which has entries 0 up to 60 **]

4

Well, after quite a bit of comparing to other projects, and testing, I’ve got the culprit:

Include Questions by Michael Callaghan.

That overrides the “Check answering NPC that “hello/hi”:” function. Questions remain (…), but I can close this case. Thanks for your time!!