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ANSWERED Trouble with History (Harlowe)
I'm designing a mobius story: reaching the end leads you right back to the starting block. The intro is a little long, so I want to give players the option to skip it IF they have already seen it.
So I added this to the bottom of the first introductory passage:
(if: (history:) contains "intro2")[Skip intro.]
And it works ... sort of. When I tested it with a temporary link from intro2 to the start page, the Skip intro link does appear only after intro2 has been visited... but it's not clickable! When hovering, the cursor is a red circle with a line through it. The Skip intro passage works, and the editor shows that it connects properly to the introduction page.
Any ideas for how to fix it?
So I added this to the bottom of the first introductory passage:
(if: (history:) contains "intro2")[Skip intro.]
And it works ... sort of. When I tested it with a temporary link from intro2 to the start page, the Skip intro link does appear only after intro2 has been visited... but it's not clickable! When hovering, the cursor is a red circle with a line through it. The Skip intro passage works, and the editor shows that it connects properly to the introduction page.
Any ideas for how to fix it?
Comments
<b>(if: (history:) contains "intro2")[Skip intro.->NEWPASSAGE]</b>
Not sure why that mattered, since NEWPASSAGE works in other contexts, but whatever.
You can generally get around this problem by using Harlowe's (link-goto: "Link Text", "Target Passage Name") macro.
note: Twine 2 will not automatically create a new target passage for any link type besides the markup one, so you will need to create the target passage yourself.
I had trouble with the link-goto format as well in the same passage. Who knows.