I’ve been working in Twine Version 2.3.9 using Harlowe (3.1.0), but it’s early enough that I think I could switch to SugarCube if I had to.
(I am very new to this! I’ve run dozens of forum searches looking for answers, but it’s possible that I just don’t know what terms to search. So apologies if this has been covered.)
In the game I’m creating, I am trying to create a password page where, in order to access new information, the player must select the correct squares in a 12x3 grid. The squares can be selected in any order.
…and I stopped there because I was running into a number of problems. The main one being that, while it is possible to click a symbol to toggle it once, it does not seem possible in Harlowe to toggle back. I thought I’d be able to do this by programming the click to also rename the hook (to, say, “A1toggled”), but as far as I can tell, it is not possible to rename a hook.
Another unexpected problem is that clicking on A1 immediately changes the font size of that entire row, and I don’t know why.
Have I accidentally chosen a way-too-ambitious password format? Or is there an extremely simple method for making a password grid that I’m overlooking?
(I’ve looked into using radio buttons or checkboxes in SugarCube, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to set up a grid of them unlabelled?)
I’ve gotten basically this going on with my game but in Twine 1.4. I don’t know the first thing about 2.0, but it can be done. I’m about to get to bed but I can show you some of my source stuff in the morning if you’d like.
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There are a couple of issues with your code example:
1: (set: ?statusA1 to "selected")
You can’t assign a value to a hook reference. So you either mistyped $statusA1 or are trying to do something that isn’t supported.
2: (click-replace: ?A1)[▣ (set: ?statusA1 to "selected")]
…clicking on A1 immediately changes the font size of that entire row…
When you do a replace like the above content other than the ‘▣’ character is injected into the targeted hook. After the above link is selected the HTML elements making up the A1 hook looks something like the following…
…and that extra <tw-expression> HTML element could effect how the page is displayed.
it does not seem possible in Harlowe to toggle back.
3: Unfortunately there is no (click:) macro equivalent of the (link-repeat:) macro, so you are going have to use a (display:) macro combined with a ‘child’ Passage to reapply the click macros.
The following TWEE Notation based example shows one possible method for achieving the outcome you described.
:: Start
{
(set: $statusA1 to false)
(set: $statusA2 to false)
<!-- initialise the rest of the 'current' status variables. -->
}
|A1>[▢] |A2>[▢] |A3>[▢] |A4>[▢] |A5>[▢] |A6>[▢] |A7>[▢] |A8>[▢] |A9>[▢] |A10>[▢] |A11>[▢] |A12>[▢]
|B1>[▢] |B2>[▢] |B3>[▢] |B4>[▢] |B5>[▢] |B6>[▢] |B7>[▢] |B8>[▢] |B9>[▢] |B10>[▢] |B11>[▢] |B12>[▢]
|C1>[▢] |C2>[▢] |C3>[▢] |C4>[▢] |C5>[▢] |C6>[▢] |C7>[▢] |C8>[▢] |C9>[▢] |C10>[▢] |C11>[▢] |C12>[▢]
|clicks>[(display: "Click Logic")]
:: Click Logic
(click: ?A1)[
(set: $statusA1 to not $statusA1)
(if: $statusA1)[
(replace: ?A1)[▣]
]
(else:)[
(replace: ?A1)[▢]
]
(replace: ?clicks)[(display: "Click Logic")]
]
(click: ?A2)[
(set: $statusA2 to not $statusA2)
(if: $statusA2)[
(replace: ?A2)[▣]
]
(else:)[
(replace: ?A2)[▢]
]
(replace: ?clicks)[(display: "Click Logic")]
]
<!-- define the rest of the required click macro calls. -->
Thank you so much! (And yes, typo, I meant to make that $statusA1 a variable.)
I am working on implementing this. In the meantime I noticed that placing the symbols in a table makes the font size change much less noticeable, so leaving an example here for future seekers having the same problem…
> {(set: $A1 to "deselected")
> (set: $A2 to "deselected")
> (set: $A3 to "deselected")
> (set: $A4 to "deselected")
> (set: $A5 to "deselected")
> (set: $A6 to "deselected")
> (set: $A7 to "deselected")
> (set: $A8 to "deselected")
> (set: $A9 to "deselected")
> (set: $A10 to "deselected")
> (set: $A11 to "deselected")
> (set: $A12 to "deselected")
>
> (set: $B1 to "deselected")
> (set: $B2 to "deselected")
> (set: $B3 to "deselected")
> (set: $B4 to "deselected")
> (set: $B5 to "deselected")
> (set: $B6 to "deselected")
> (set: $B7 to "deselected")
> (set: $B8 to "deselected")
> (set: $B9 to "deselected")
> (set: $B10 to "deselected")
> (set: $B11 to "deselected")
> (set: $B12 to "deselected")
>
> (set: $C1 to "deselected")
> (set: $C2 to "deselected")
> (set: $C3 to "deselected")
> (set: $C4 to "deselected")
> (set: $C5 to "deselected")
> (set: $C6 to "deselected")
> (set: $C7 to "deselected")
> (set: $C8 to "deselected")
> (set: $C9 to "deselected")
> (set: $C10 to "deselected")
> (set: $C11 to "deselected")
> (set: $C12 to "deselected")
> <table style="width:300px">
> <tr>
> <td>|A1>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A2>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A3>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A4>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A5>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A6>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A7>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A8>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A9>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A10>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A11>[▢]</td>
> <td>|A12>[▢]</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>|B1>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B2>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B3>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B4>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B5>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B6>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B7>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B8>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B9>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B10>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B11>[▢]</td>
> <td>|B12>[▢]</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>|C1>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C2>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C3>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C4>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C5>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C6>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C7>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C8>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C9>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C10>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C11>[▢]</td>
> <td>|C12>[▢]</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
>
> (click-replace: ?A1)[▣ (set: $A1 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A2)[▣ (set: $A2 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A3)[▣ (set: $A3 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A4)[▣ (set: $A4 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A5)[▣ (set: $A5 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A6)[▣ (set: $A6 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A7)[▣ (set: $A7 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A8)[▣ (set: $A8 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A9)[▣ (set: $A9 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A10)[▣ (set: $A10 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A11)[▣ (set: $A11 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?A12)[▣ (set: $A12 to "selected")]
>
> (click-replace: ?B1)[▣ (set: $B1 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B2)[▣ (set: $B2 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B3)[▣ (set: $B3 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B4)[▣ (set: $B4 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B5)[▣ (set: $B5 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B6)[▣ (set: $B6 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B7)[▣ (set: $B7 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B8)[▣ (set: $B8 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B9)[▣ (set: $B9 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B10)[▣ (set: $B10 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B11)[▣ (set: $B11 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?B12)[▣ (set: $B12 to "selected")]
>
> (click-replace: ?C1)[▣ (set: $C1 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C2)[▣ (set: $C2 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C3)[▣ (set: $C3 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C4)[▣ (set: $C4 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C5)[▣ (set: $C5 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C6)[▣ (set: $C6 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C7)[▣ (set: $C7 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C8)[▣ (set: $C8 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C9)[▣ (set: $C9 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C10)[▣ (set: $C10 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C11)[▣ (set: $C11 to "selected")]
> (click-replace: ?C12)[▣ (set: $C12 to "selected")]}