Text Window Input-Output Control by Erik Temple broken?

[Eleas (Björn Paulsen)]

As the title states, there are odd references in the aforementioned extension that break the code. The source text

Include Text Window Input-Output Control by Erik Temple. Home is a room.

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This is the report produced by Inform 7 (build 6G60) on its most recent run through:

In Chapter - Mouse input, Section - Cancelling input before printing to the input line in the extension Text Window Input-Output Control by Erik Temple:

Problem. You wrote ‘An input-cancelling rule (this is the flexible calling input rule)’ : but the punctuation here ‘:’ makes me think this should be a definition of a phrase and it doesn’t begin as it should, with either ‘To’ (e.g. ‘To flood the riverplain:’), ‘Definition:’, a name for a rule (e.g. ‘This is the devilishly cunning rule:’), ‘At’ plus a time (e.g. ‘At 11:12 PM:’ or ‘At the time when the clock chimes’) or the name of a rulebook, possibly followed by some description of the action or value to apply to (e.g. ‘Instead of taking something:’ or ‘Every turn:’).

See the manual: 18.3 > New rules

As a secondary effect, this breaks Jon Ingold’s Interactive Parsing (v4) as well.

[Erik_Temple]

It looks like you are using an old version of Inform, or maybe have installed the old version of Glulx Entry Points that is posted on the I7 extensions website. Whatever the cause, you need to be using the most up-to-date version (v9) of the built-in Glulx Entry Points extension.

As a side comment, I am not sure what the reasoning is for including old versions of built-in extensions in the extensions library. The version of Glulx Entry Points that is up there dates to 2008…

[Jamespking (Marco Innocenti)]

@ektemple

It looks like you are using an old version of Inform, or maybe have installed the old version of Glulx Entry Points that is posted on the I7 extensions website. Whatever the cause, you need to be using the most up-to-date version (v9) of the built-in Glulx Entry Points extension.

As a side comment, I am not sure what the reasoning is for including old versions of built-in extensions in the extensions library. The version of Glulx Entry Points that is up there dates to 2008…

Idd. That extension is older on the extensions list on the site than the one bundled with Inform. I found it rather annoying, when I installed the Quoted Box extension for Glulx. Had to reinstall Inform.

[Eleas (Björn Paulsen)]

Oh, that makes sense. Now I feel silly.