Sunday, June 11, 2017

FMod - Advanced settings and the Back button

While testing Abiathar on Rise of the Triad levels a few days ago, I noticed a little glitch in the New Project Wizard. The NPW's first page offers a list of templates as well as the option to ignore the templates and enter all the settings manually. There is, though, a checkbox under the template option that lets the user fiddle all the advanced settings anyway. Once the user gets to the first non-advanced page using the latter option, the Back button goes to the start of the NPW instead of the last advanced page. This happens because the button just checks whether there's a template in use, which does not fully describe whether advanced settings can be shown.

To fix the glitch, I introduced a new variable - "can view advanced settings" - that has the correct semantics here. The Back button's decision is now made based on that.

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