possibility of customizing the status line in ZILF 0.7?

Authoring ZIL
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Yeah I was just wondering if I can customize the status line read out on ZILF 0.7 instead of

LOCATION SCORE MOVES

like classic Infocom games, but to a more like

LOCATION SCORE: 0/250 (0 being the current score, 250 being the max fixed score).

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You can do this, on version 4 and up, by replacing the UPDATE-STATUS-LINE routine defined in parser.zil. Something like this:

<SET REDEFINE T>
<ROUTINE UPDATE-STATUS-LINE ("AUX" WIDTH)
    <SCREEN 1>
    <HLIGHT ,H-INVERSE>
    <FAKE-ERASE>
    <TELL !\ >
    <COND (,HERE-LIT <TELL D ,HERE>)
	  (ELSE <TELL %,DARKNESS-STATUS-TEXT>)>
    <SET WIDTH <LOWCORE SCRH>>
    <CURSET 1 <- .WIDTH 15>>
    <TELL "Score: " N ,SCORE "/250">
    <SCREEN 0>
    <HLIGHT ,H-NORMAL>>

Put that somewhere after your <INSERT-FILE "parser"> line so it’ll replace the library function.

On version 3, you can’t really customize the status line, because it’s drawn by the interpreter, but you can use <VERSION ZIP TIME> to make it show up as hours/minutes instead of score/turns.

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