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(Harlowe) Trying to add name and gender options

thingpersonthingperson
in Help! with 2.0
I'm trying to make the main character's name/title/style of address, etc. change based on choices at the beginning of the passage, but I'm running into the "X is not defined" error.

Examples:
I am a noble and refined lord.(set: $title to Lord)->What is your name?
Aldrovanda(set: $name to Aldrovanda)->Pleased to meet you.
<<textinput $name "Pleased to meet you.">>

Fairly certain I'm doing some kind of amateurish mistake, but I'd like it clarified.

Comments

  • MoLoLuMoLoLu
    edited October 2016
    Edit: sorry. just saw the title. You're mixing syntax.

    <<textinput>> looks like sugarcube (except it isn't - the sc version is textbox). but you're using harlowe.

    Also, I think you may need to (set: $name to "") before you call any of the other stuff.
  • TheMadExileTheMadExile
    The <<textinput>> macro is from the Twine 1.4 vanilla story formats. It will not work in Harlowe.

    In order of what you were trying:

    Via a link, using the (link:) macro, (set:) macro, & (goto:) macro: 
    (link: "Aldrovanda")[(set: $name to "Aldrovanda")(goto: "Pleased to meet you.")]

    Via a input, using the (prompt:) macro. For example: 
    (set: $name to (prompt: "What is your name?", "Aldrovanda"))

    WARNING:

    The following looks like it should work—note the corrected syntax within the (set:) macro—however, it does not: 
    [[Aldrovanda(set: $name to "Aldrovanda")->Pleased to meet you.]]
    The reason is because the (set:) within the link markup is evaluated when the link is created, not when it's clicked on by the player. In other words, it's essentially the same as the following: 
    [[Aldrovanda->Pleased to meet you.]]\
(set: $name to "Aldrovanda")
    Which is not what you're looking to do.
  • DeadshotDeadshot
    Instead of having preset names, you could let the player make their own with the prompt macro:
    (link: "Continue")[(set: $name to (prompt: 'Please Create A Name:'))(goto: 'Pleased to meet you.')]
  • KhaloodxpKhaloodxp
    edited October 2016
    and you can give 2 links for the gender 
    (link:"Male")[(set:$gender to "Male")(go-to: "next passage")]
(link:"Female")[(set:$gender to "Female")(go-to: "next passage")]
    with "next passage" being the name of obviously the next passage, it's really easy when you're not trying to put sugarcube macros in harlowe
  • TheMadExileTheMadExile
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    it's really easy when you're not trying to put sugarcube macros in harlowe
    As has been pointed out, twice within this thread already, <<textinput>> is not a SugarCube macro.
  • KhaloodxpKhaloodxp
    edited October 2016
    TheMadExile wrote: »
    As has been pointed out, twice within this thread already, <<textinput>> is not a SugarCube macro.
    ooh my bad


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