Creating a Hook that is a Link to Hide/Show? (Harlowe)

geniehere

So I'm encountering another issue in Harlowe:

Essentially, I am trying to create a passage link that is a hook that I can show or hide depending on if a variable is stored within my history.

This is what I typed up:

(if: history contains $whatdoyoumeanbyclinic (hide:ClinicAsk))

[[[What do you mean by Clinic?]]]<ClinicAsk|

But but this somehow creates a passage with the title "[What do you mean by Clinic?"

It appears to be a bug and I'm not sure how to fix this?

prof_yaffle

The way to fix this problem is to put a space between the first and second brackets.

There's also a few problems with your if line
to access the story history you need to call a macro (history:)
The action to perform when the condition is true should be in a separate hook
There's no hide macro. Instead replace the contents of the ClinicAsk hook with an empty hook
To reference a named hook you need to put a ? before the name
The line needs to come after the line that defines the hook in order to work

The following works

[ [[What do you mean by Clinic?]]]<ClinicAsk|

(if: (history:) contains $whatdoyoumeanbyclinic)[(replace: ?ClinicAsk)[]]

greyelf

If you want to conditionally show a markup link you could just warp it in an (if:) macro like so:

(if: (history:) contains $whatdoyoumeanbyclinic)[ [[What do you mean by Clinic?]]]

... note the space character between the start of the (if:) macro's associated hook and the start of the markup link.

XndrK

Also, a style comment: If you want to save a few seconds' time, I'd rename

$whatdoyoumeanbyclinic

to something shorter, like

$meanByClinic

or something. It also makes the code a lot easier to read later on.