A Dialogue about Dialogs Hi, Everyone! I just learned about dialogs a little while ago. I wanted to share what I learned with everyone. So, I made this example program with an explanation included. The program is called DIALOG_EXPLAIN. It's in the STUFF_EXPLAIN folder. Unless if you want me to publish them individually, I'll put my explanation programs in there. (continued)

(Continuation) Does anyone want me to write out my explanation on miiverse? I don't plan to unless if you guys want me to. Lastly, I decided I'll use the cat sprite as my explanation mascot. I would like to name it, but not sure what. So, I'd like 5 people to suggest one name each and then everyone else will vote on those names. (1 vote per person please) Thanks everyone! Happy programming!

P.S. Should I click the "spoilers" button when I post my explanations?

No, there's nothing spoilery about explaining code! I don't think anyone is going to say "Aww, man! I can't believe he spoiled how to code dialogues!" :P

i think you should call him professor smile.b cat.

@Mystman 12 Thanks! I wasn't sure so I thought I'd do it anyway. And great joke! @dragun I love the name! Thanks!

you need to give him glasses so he looks more like a professor though :)

I could try that. Round or square glasses?

round

Cool Caesar! Regarding DIALOG, I added two demonstrations (after your Line 25) of how to assign YES/NO responses and the SAVE dialog, which is convenient because not only can you use it as a normal save screen, but as it's an alphanumeric keyboard (numbers and letters only), it's also great for math quizzes or spelling bees since the user can't type random nonsense. (Screenshot in next post)

It only looks busy because of the comments but it's not that much

Thanks, L! This is really helpful. I'll update the program and then republish the STUFF_EXPLAIN folder. Or should I publish the update seperately? Also, great examples! I think you've captured the essence of Professor Smile.b (since that is the only suggestion so far) perfectly! By the way, do you have a suggestion for how to give the professor glasses? (continued)

The reason I'm asking is because I spent like 20 minutes trying to draw glasses, but failed. I can't draw as small as I would like and I don't know how to make the image larger without going pixel by pixel. Last question, with the paint program in smiletool, is there a way to set the paint color to the same color as a pixel on screen? Thanks for the help!

Do whatever you want with it! All rights relinquished. Sadly I don't know the answer to any sprite-editing related questions yet, but I'm working on translating Suu's GRP editor tool (to be released soon so wait for it) and hopefully THAT will help you. The default Smiletool is just not that user-friendly to me.

Thanks, L! And I agree with you about Smiletool. The only thing I use it for is the definition numbers. The waveset, animate, (don't know about the map, and paint tools are frustrating and not very helpful. Thanks again for the help!

Anytime! Meanwhile, I think adding the extra codes for new sprites might confuse beginners more, so I would suggest keeping it simple for now. Also in Line 32, character length shouldn't be in quotations, just to set the record straight :)

Well, I don't know how to add new sprites. So, no problem there!

Garfield the cat I vote on my name (º_º)/

Nice name, Gad! I really like the names we have now!