Real-Time Delays

[VictorGijsbers]

So… it seems that Erik Temple’s old extension Real-Time Delays doesn’t compile with current Inform. Is there any other way to get timed text in Inform at the moment?

(Yes yes, timed text, I know what I’m doing, thank you.)

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

You’ll need Glulx Entry Points from the 10.1 public library and to strike the before "Glulx.i6t" near the top of Real-Time Delays, but that may be all you need. This is a rare Glk extension that doesn’t have to wait for GlkKit (or at least I don’t think it does).

Normally I’d try it before saying anything, but I’m without a working v10 compiler at the moment because reasons.

[VictorGijsbers]

Thanks! That didn’t work, alas, but this post had the solution:

Strange error when playtesting

I’ve just had this happen as well, also from using Real-Time Delays. All the extensions I’m using are the versions from the github. Oddly, the error only occurs in the Windows IDE’s interpreter – using standalone Glulxe or Git it continues on without issue. Also oddly, in my case it’s a sequence of alternating say/wait/say groups and it very reliably only issues the error at the end of all of them. After some experimentation, I found that this appears to be the magic trick: Reliably crashes…