Shouldn’t be, but I’m happy to double check. It’s a seemingly common idea that CSIDE does some weird wizard hackery, but it by and large just includes ChoiceScript “as it is”, so ideally you won’t see a difference between it or out of it (as far as ChoiceScript rendering is concerned that is).
That said, what can happen is that CSIDE’s copy of ChoiceScript gets out of date (I don’t always spot small, unannounced updates). CSIDE is also in many ways a browser (that’s how it can also run your game), and it’s internal browser may behave differently to newer, popular ones. This could in theory some minor discrepancies, though I wouldn’t have thought this is an example of such
As Havenstone wisely recommends, if you could share some code, we can double check for you.
Maybe it’s worth me putting some of the above in an FAQ on the first post as well…
Welp, I would share a bit to demonstrate… except now it’s miraculously working just fine. You’re probably right about something being out of date at the start—I just dove in and started coding right after installing, but it probably needed to download an update or something. I just went “huh, guess this is how it works,” wrote it with all the LBs, and never tried it the other way again. If I do happen to come across a spot that still won’t format correctly, I’ll share. Thank you for the reply, both!
Hopefully my bungle will help someone searching the forum in the future. Hello, future people, it’s not just you!
I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but is there a way to keep the search bar open while looking for words in the text? Every time I press Enter, the search bar highlights the words but then the bar closes itself. Is there a way to keep it open?
I am having the same problem as @chocobibo did above. Implicit control flow doesn’t seem to work in CSIDE now, it keeps giving me error on the same character creator that have worked fine in previous demos, now. Did you ever find a fix?
@CJW It might be that my brain has stopped working since I am so frustrated right now, so I might not see it.
Is there a version of CSIDE newer than 1.01? If so, where might it be linked? It is still liked to the 2017 version in the first post.
I have no idea why CSIDE suddenly won’t accept implicit control flow, I do have a new computer and reinstalled it, could win11 vs win10 make a difference?
EDIT: I started up my old computer with the broken keyboard and Win10, and that CSIDE worked fine. Huh. So it is only the fresh install that’s the issue… And the one I have on the other is 1.3 I think. I just wish I knew where I could download that…
I used the old update files I had, haven’t found anything newer. It might have been an outoupdate thing, but I am getting an error now:
Hi! I ended up solving this just by restarting CSIDE/my computer. Stupid fix but it worked. I’m not sure you have the same issue that I did. I hope you find a fix.
edit: my computer is a mac, so if you have the same problem I did then I don’t think it should be a Windows thing.
1.3.X is the newest series. Did you manage to update manually?
Yes, there’s a nasty bug in one of the core bits of CSIDE’s stack (that I don’t own) that makes auto updates difficult on some CPUs. I can DM a workaround if required.
@CJW No, I still haven’t located where the new version is, I am only seeing the old ones on github sadly… I am not the most computer savvy there is. Is it linked somewhere in the thread?
My apologies for asking this. I can’t get images to appear. I reads the page on images on CSIDE, and searched this thread. But I am still having a disconnect. When I run it off my computer the images work fine in the story; the images are in the same folder as the Scenes folder. But when I go do CSIDE I can’t see how to bring them in. In Dropbox I have my scenes folder, with images both in that folder (just in case) and in the folder above. But in CSIDE I can’t figure out how to upload them. Any ideas?
Oh, and maybe I do not need to use Dropbox and can just do it from my laptop’s files - but if so I am confusing the difference between accessing each of them.
Okay, now I got the images to work. In Dropbox I put my images in the same folder as the scene files (even though when I run from my desktop I put the images one level higher). Is that the correct solution?
Also, can someone advise me on best practices in playtesting in CSIDE? How do I rapidly advance through, say, the first few chapters to get to the one I am currently working on? I read some information about quick keys (on a mac) but could not get anything to happen.
The console is probably the closest thing. You can programmatically execute *goto(_scene) with it, but it comes with a warning (see the docs linked above).
Okay, now I got the images to work. In Dropbox I put my images in the same folder as the scene files (even though when I run from my desktop I put the images one level higher). Is that the correct solution?
Are you using CSIDE on the Desktop as well? CSIDE should be uniform across platforms, it’s a bug if it’s not. I think the standard CS interpreter does expect the images to not be one folder above. CSIDE wants them in your scenes folder because that’s how it keeps an idea of a “project”.
IIRC you’ve got buffer history with the up and down arrow keys (so you can quickly rerun a previous command), but there’s no autocomplete unfortunately.
Hey, is there a dedicated place on where to find the newest version of CSIDE yet? The 1.3x? I believe mine also auto updated and reinstalled an earlier version. Normally I wouldn’t care, but currently disable_reuse just plain isn’t working, which inhibits things a bit
I’m not sure why you’d be having trouble with disable_reuse, that’s not a new command. You can check the version of your all in the settings panel, towards the bottom. In the same place you can select an update channel. Make sure that’s set to “stable” or “None”.
Heya, so I checked the version in CSIDE, and it indeed does say that it’s 1.0.1, when I’m fairly certain I’ve had more recent versions in the past. But I also can’t find anymore recent versions past 1.0.1 because the link to the GitHub takes me to a download for 1.0.1 as well
CSIDE should attempt to auto-update itself. If you check the settings panel, towards the bottom, under “App Settings”, make sure your “Update Channel” isn’t set to “None”.
Love using CSIDE, thanks for this wonderful tool! Newbie-to-exporting question: does anyone know how to include images in a project’s export? The fact that I can’t open them in the editor seems to prevent the export from grabbing the image contained in the scenes folder. I’m guessing I’m missing something but I haven’t been able to figure out what yet.
