The pill container contains pills for each day of the week. Global event triggered as the first step in opening the dialog when Dialog.open() is called. See Macro API for more information. Note: An array is a container that holds things. Creates a number input box, used to modify the value of the variable with the given name, optionally forwarding the player to another passage. Creates a cycling link, used to modify the value of the variable with the given name. If no autosave exists, then the starting passage is rendered. If its return value is truthy, the override succeeds and that value is used as the new destination of the navigation. Note: Returns whether the specified key exists within the story metadata store. Renders the selected passage into the target element, replacing any existing content, and returns the element. Does not modify the original. Harlowe is the default style for Twine 2.0 and uses a syntax that is different than Sugarcube. The body of the page. There are cases, however, where things get a bit more complicated, namely: instances where you need to pass the name of a variable as an argument, rather than its value, and those where you want to pass the result of an expression as argument. Returns whether the seedable PRNG has been enabled. This temporary playthrough session is intended to prevent players from losing data. If the autosave exists and the story is configured to automatically load it, then the autosave is loaded and the state is replaced by the autosave's state and the active passage is rendered, just as if the user had loaded any other save. To enable test mode from the Stories screen, click on the story's gear menu and select the Test Story menu item. Note: Begins playback of the playlist or, failing that, sets the playlist to begin playback as soon as the player has interacted with the document. Returns the number of turns that have passed since the last instance of the passage with the given title occurred within the story history or -1 if it does not exist. By convention, properties starting with an underscoree.g., _warningIntroLackingare used as templates, only being included within other localized strings. It must contain, at least, an element with the ID passages that will be the main passage display area. Note: Determines whether outgoing passage transitions are enabled. In SugarCube, you would instead simply prefix the selectors of your styles with the appropriate tag-based selectorse.g., either [data-tags~=""] attribute selectors or class selectors. In-browser savesi.e., autosave and slot savesare largely incompatible with private browsing modes, which cause all in-browser storage mechanisms to either persist only for the lifetime of the browsing session or fail outright. The _args special variable is used internally to store arguments passed to the widgetas zero-based indices; i.e., _args[0] is the first parsed argument, _args[1] is the second, etcand the full argument string in raw and parsed formsaccessed via the _args.raw and _args.full properties. Creates a new widget macro (henceforth, widget) with the given name. When used to set the mute state, returns a reference to the current AudioTrack instance for chaining. Playlists are useful for playing tracks in a sequencei.e., one after another. To modify the values contained within variables, see the <> macro and setter links. Happens after the rendering of the incoming passage. The default font stack is set here. Registers the passage as a VTT passage. Removes event handlers from the track. Feel free to add your own if that makes localization easiere.g., for gender, plurals, and whatnot. Config.macros.typeSkipKey, Config.macros.typeVisitedPassages, <> Events. The variable watch panel may be toggled via the Watch button. For normal projects, authors are encouraged to continue to use the StoryInit special named passage. . If there were errors, an exception is thrown. If you want to play tracks in a sequence, then you want a playlist instead. Extract the archive to a safe location on your computer and make note of the path to it. Subsequent, optional, characters have the same set as the second with the addition of numerals (i.e., 0-9, so the full set is A-Za-z0-9$_). A fullscreen options object should have some of the following properties: Note: Warning: Tag it with the appropriate media passage special tag, and only that tagsee below. In mobile browsers and, more recently, most desktop browsers, playback must be initiated by the playergenerally via click/touch. Returns the track's total playtime in seconds, Infinity for a stream, or NaN if no metadata exists. To pass expressions or the results of functions to macros as an argument, you must wrap the expression in backquotes (`). The callback is passed one parameter, the original destination passage title. Setting API. The entire Options systemMenuOptions special passage, options special variable, and associated macroshas been scrapped for numerous reasonsit was always a hack, required copious amounts of boilerplate code to be useful, etc. Returns the given string with all regular expression metacharacters escaped. If you only need to print the value of a TwineScript variable, then you may simply include it in your normal passage text and it will be printed automatically via the naked variable markup. Passage, tag, and variable names that have special meaning to SugarCube. Note: Donate Release Notes for v2 SugarCube v2.36.1 ( 2021-12-21) Fixed an issue with the build system that was producing subtly broken builds. For example, the following is the data URI of a Base64-encoded PNG image of a red dot (): Generally, it's expected that you will use a compiler that supports the automatic creation of media passages, however, they may be created manually. UIBar API. Block widgets may access the contents they enclose via the _contents special variable. In SugarCube, the passage is not terminated, and anything in the code below the <> macro will have side effects. Hello I'm sorry if this is a very noobish question, but i'm having a hard time understand arrays in general, so here goes. The capitalization and punctuation used within the default replacement strings is deliberate, especially within the error and warning strings. Its return value should be the post-processed text. Determines whether alternate passage descriptions are used by the Saves and Jump To menusby default an excerpt from the passage is used. Note: The directory and .py file names within the archive available for download are already properly matchedas sugarcube-2 and sugarcube-2.pyand to avoid issues it recommended that you simply do not rename them. The new l10nStrings object has a simpler, flatter, set of properties and better support for replacement strings. The cycling options are populated via <> and/or <>. For example, if the passage name was Gone fishin', then: For example, if the tag name was Sector_42, then it would become both the data-tags attribute member Sector_42 (selector: [data-tags~="Sector_42"]) and the class sector-42 (selector: .sector-42). In most cases, you will not need to use <> as there are often better and easier ways to forward the player. . Essentially, a combination of <> and <>. When using Twine1/Twee, it is strongly recommended that you use only a single stylesheet tagged passage. Sometimes there are breaking changes, however, and these must be addressed immediately. Configuration API. For each iteration, it assigns the key/value pair of the associated entry in the collection to the iteration variables and then executes its contents. Tip: If you limit the moments within the history to 1, via setting Config.history.maxStates to 1, then there will only ever be one moment in the history, but passage navigation is still required for new moments to be created. Returns whether none of the track's data has been loaded. To enable test mode from the Stories screen, click on the story's gear menu and select the Test Play menu item. Does not flag other assignment operators. For those versions that do, the updates are normally completely elective and may be addressed at your leisure, or not at all. Shows the UI bar. classes), Updating to any version 2.30.0 from a lesser version, Updating to any version 2.29.0 from a lesser version, Updating to any version 2.28.0 from a lesser version, Updating to any version 2.20.0 from a lesser version, Updating to any version 2.15.0 from a lesser version, Updating to any version 2.10.0 from a lesser version, Updating to any version 2.8.0 from a lesser version, Updating to any version 2.5.0 from a lesser version, Updating to any version 2.0.0 from a lesser version, embedded image passage (Twine1 & Tweego only), https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tmedwards/sugarcube-2/dist/format.js. Returns whether playback of the playlist has been stopped. A list definition object should have some of the following properties: Adds the named property to the settings object and a range control for it to the Settings dialog. Registers the passage into the Jump To menu. Can type most content: links, markup, macros, etc. Returns whether fullscreen is both supported and enabled. May be called either with a list of passages, with a list of link markup, or with a list of image markup. See SimpleAudio API for more information. most recent commit 3 months ago. Returns whether the full in-play history (past + future) is empty. Does not modify the original. For game-oriented projects, as opposed to more story-oriented interactive fiction, a setting of 1 is strongly recommended. The load and playback states of tracks are not currently recorded within the active play session or saves. postdisplay tasks have been deprecated and should no longer be used. Meaning that when you pass a variable as an argument, its value is passed to the macro rather than its name. All properties of Passage objects should be treated as if they were read-only, as modifying them could result in unexpected behavior. SimpleAudio API, AudioRunner API, and AudioList API. A format item has the syntax {index[,alignment]}, square-brackets denoting optional elements. See Guide: Media Passages for more information. Returns whether fullscreen mode is currently active. Thus, if you allow players to return to passages, then you should either: ensure the passages contain no code that has side-effects or wrap that code in something to prevent re-executione.g., <>side-effects<>. Selects all external link elements within the passage elemente.g., links to other pages and websites. In SugarCube, they come in two types: story variables and temporary variables. The built-in Restart button, along with the methods UI.restart() and Engine.restart() are provided so that the story can be restarted without restoring a session. String: The expression yields a string valuee.g.. All widgets may access arguments passed to them via the _args special variable. Used to populate the contents of the Share dialog. Attempting to do so will, usually, result in something that's non-functional. Sets the selected tracks' volume mute state (default: false). When a widget is called, any existing _args variable, and for container widgets _contents, is stored for the duration of the call and restored after. May be called with, optional, link text or with a link or image markup. Returns the string with its first Unicode code point converted to upper case. Warning: When used to set the loop state, returns a reference to the current AudioTrack instance for chaining. Returns the number of milliseconds that have passed since the current passage was rendered to the page. The .hasData() method is generally more useful. An array is just like a pill container except it can only contain one item. Used for pre-story-start initialization tasks, like variable initialization (happens at the beginning of story initialization). The core audio subsystem and backend for the audio macros. The typed text has no default styling. At the very least you will need to specify a .passage-out style that defines the transition's end state. The debug bar (bottom right corner of the page) allows you to: watch the values of story and temporary variables, toggle the debug views, and jump to any moment/turn within the history. Or, if you use the start passage as real part of your story and allow the player to reenter it, rather than just as the initial landing/cover page, then you may wish to only disallow saving on the start passage the very first time it's displayedi.e., at story startup. Note: Track event triggered when playback is stopped after .stop() or .stop() is calledeither manually or as part of another process.