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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Nick on October 23, 2003, 09:37:03 PM

Title: Hollywood strings
Post by: Nick on October 23, 2003, 09:37:03 PM

Hello humans

Any of you people good at using Hollywood? I`ve got the first version of Hollywood and I was wondering if there is any way of inputting text/numeric data. I have an idea, but haven`t got round to getting into the programming. I`ve been looking at the help files and have done the tutorial, but can`t see any commands for this.

Thanks

Title: Re: Hollywood strings
Post by: cgutjahr on October 23, 2003, 10:03:32 PM

There is no such command in Hollywood 1.0. You would have to define lots of key events (all alphanumeric keys, Enter, Backspace etc.) and write subroutines for each key event that add the pressed key to your input string. It's quite a PITA (I know - I tried it ;-)

You better upgrade to Hollywood 1.5: It has a proper "Input" function, as well as "IsKeyDown()". And it features an awful lot of improvements over v1.0 - above all, it has layers!

Title: Re: Hollywood strings
Post by: Cyberus on October 23, 2003, 11:54:35 PM

Humans - hmm... wasn't that some kind of poor Lemmings clone?

Title: Re: Hollywood strings
Post by: Nick on October 24, 2003, 07:48:10 PM

I knew it! :-) When I have the cash to upgrade, around about the year 2100, I`ll go for it :-)

@Cyberus

Hehe I had forgotten about that game. I have that in my collection. Played it once to test to see if it works. Its sort of...ish...similar to Lemmings. In that you have a team of characters and a set number of abilities, but there are only a few, much larger characters, and if I remember correctly only 4 maximum. Also you can control them one by one. They`re not under AI control. Actually quite good, from what I`ve played. Nice big box to go with it.

Title: Re: Hollywood strings
Post by: mantisspider on October 26, 2003, 06:33:03 PM

hi guys,

sorry for my ignorance...
is hollywood basically an amiga version of ToolBook or Director(ish)?

http://www.softwarefailure.de/en/prod_hollywood.html (http://www.softwarefailure.de/en/prod_hollywood.html)
I found that, it looks pretty similar to ToolBook. Has anyone made anything on this app?