Where is the story transcript?

Authoring Inform 7
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Hmm. I see the story transcript when the game is played directly in Inform, but not when the release-generated index.html or play.html files are played?

When play begins:
	try switching the story transcript on.
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You are asking where the transcript is saved in the Quixe interpreter.

These are saved in browser local storage. Hit the “Edit” button in any load/save dialogue to see a list of saved transcripts.

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So I can’t find them in Chrome’s local storage, nor by searching for any of the transcript filenames found in the “Edit” list of the interpreter. This is on a Macbook. Going to check on a windows laptop next.

I should add: the reason I ask is because it’s finally beta testing time (woohoo!) but I need to give inexperienced testers clear instructions on where to find the transcript so they can email it back to me.

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I think I get it now. The only option is to select a transcript in the edit window and hit “display”. Then the player would have to copy the resulting transcript text into an email. A bit clunky, but it works.

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Thank you for your help on the subject! In researching further, it appears that you’ve answered a form of this very question every 5 years or so LOL :sweat_smile: and those posts are what ultimately revealed the solution. You, sir, are a fountain. \m/

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Yeah, sorry.

I’ve been thinking maybe I should add a console-debug function to extract the transcript. Say if you typed something like

s = Glk.debug.saved_data(LABEL)

This would still be pretty clunky, though, especially if you were trying to handhold a tester-player through it.

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