19 Oct 2008 (Release 46)
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*NEW. TAB now has auto-detect for Character Speech Commands inputs.
You may now optionally shorten input commands such as:

>say to the farmer, go south and get all
>say to joseph,go south and get all
>say to joseph the farmer, go south and get all

to the much easier and simpler:

>farmer, go south and get all

*NEW. "getallplus" default ACTION firstly tries to get all objects in any open containers in the room and then tries to get any objects in the room itself. (getall)

*NEW. "autogetobjplus" default ACTION tries to take the named object firstly from any open container which may be held, worn or in the current room if it is in one, otherwise it will then try to get the named object from the room itself (autogetobj).

*FIX. Due to errant coding Multiple long¯words were not working correctly.

*FIX. Script1 now executing correctly a "turns=0" condition after "yes" reply to a "gameover" action.

*FIX. "keypress" action is now working correctly if used before a "gameover" action.

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Regards,
catventure

Small update posted:

22 Oct 2008 (Release 46.1)
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*FIXED. "ask" action does not now wrongly process Script2 entries twice

*CHANGED. Turns are not incremented if Player replies "no" or "cancel" to a restart operation or cancels a save game position or load game position operation either from the adventure menubar or as a result of a typed input command.

*REMOVED. Some code testing dialog box now deleted from long¯verb function

*IMPROVED. Characters set to "follow" in the Character Editor can now be accepted with a Start Location of 0.

*IMPROVED. When an object is set as a container the corresponding location text is set to: "Inside of <object noun keyword>." instead of "Inside of Object <object number>"

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Regards,
catventure

Hi,

Here are details of latest update:

27 Oct 2008 (Release 46.2)
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*CHANGED. Turns not incremented if player aborts or replies "no" to a typed QUIT input command

*FIX. A "quit", "restart", "gameover" or dialogmess" action dialog box is no longer skipped/missing after a "More..." text prompt SPACE keypress!

*IMPROVED. System Message 98 changed to support a plural format:
" follows you.| follow you." (note spaces)
Uses the bar/pipe symbol "|" to split text between singular and plural.
If more than one character following the Player then TAB will now print the second version of this message. Text is still customizable.
eg: "Billy the thief and Roger your canine companion follow you."

*CHANGED. Script 2 is now processed AFTER any Character movement reporting.


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Regards,
catventure.

Update: Today at 16.40 GMT

28 Oct 2008 (Release 46.3)
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*FIX. A "quit", "restart", "gameover" or dialogmess" action dialog box is no longer skipped/missing after a "More..." text prompt SPACE keypress.

This was still causing trouble and is hopefully now fixed.

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Regards,
catventure.

Hi,

Repost of Alpha 46.3 today at 11:45 GMT.

Further improve to "More..." text prompt in conjunction with SPACE.

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Regards,
catventure.

Hi,

Update today 30 Oct 2008 at 15:25 GMT

30 Oct 2008 (Release 46.4)
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*FIX. A bug in Characters moving by walk pattern that was causing TAB to crash.

*FIX. A bug in movement reporting message for Random Characters with prohibited location walk pattern.

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Regards,
catventure

Another update today:

02 Nov 2008 (Release 46.5)
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*FIX. A minor but important deletion word handling fix.

*FIX. The following actions were not taking Player inventory object carryable/weight status into account:

objlocn1=charlocn2
objlocn2=charlocn1
objlocn1=charlocX
objlocn2=charlocX

*FIX. "getall" and "getallplus" actions amended to prevent error occurring.

*CHANGED. Splash Screen close button now exits TAB Player

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Regards,
catventure.

Hi Tabbers,

New release now ready:

08 Nov 2008 (Release 46.6)
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*FIX. "pattcharX=Y$" ; "pattcharn1=X$" ; "pattcharn2=X$" ACTIONS now working correctly

*FIX. Character(s) moving by movement pattern glitch corrected.

Thanks to Amy for reporting these.

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Regards,
Phil.

Hi Tabbers!

Anothere very minor update today...

19 Nov 2008 (Release 46.7)
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*FIX. "openobjn1", "openobjn2", "closeobjn1", and "closeobjn2" ACTIONS were faulty and not working.


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Regards,
Phil.

Hi,

A new release today:

22 Nov 2008 - Release 46.8
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*FIX. "pattcharX=Y$", "pattcharn1=Y$" and "pattcharn2=Y$" actions were faulty and causing problems in character movement.

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Regards,
catventure.

Hello,

Another update today to fix user reports...

28 Nov 2008 (Release 46.9)
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*FIX. Save/Load Data and Save/Load Game Position updated to fix Character movement problems.

*ADDED. Syntax check for "/" (slash symbol) now present for Character Editor Nouns and Object Editor Nouns.
Functions same way as in Vocabulary.

*NEW. "presskey" action - same as "keypress" action except requires key "C" to be pressed instead of SPACE before continuing with game... System Message 69 (previously unused) now set to read: "Press C to Continue...". This eliminates windows system sound "ding" present in "keypress" action.

Please update any data you are working on to include new System Message 69:

"Press C to Continue..."

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Regards,
catventure