Hi Folks,
http://www.actool.net ACTools is another scripting program that can control simple Windows commands. It moves the mouse to certain positions, enters keystrokes and can do several other helpful things. I've used it to mass modify file names, run an entire automated bot that sells Magic The Gathering Online cards, and most recently... write a few scripts for my DSLua game.
There was a post in the Help section on how to turn the whole screen white without using backgrounds. Obviously you'd have to use sprites for it, but it takes forever to write up all those sprites. ACTools can easily type out repetitive actions like this, increment variables along the way, etc.
Here's an example of an ACTool script I wrote to fill the screen with a 32 x 16 (need to save memory, didn't want to use 64 X 64) Sprite over and over. You start the script, click into your LUA editor and watch it go. I have similar scripts (it's easy just to modify this one) to SetFrame and Free(). In this case, the FrameStrip fadeframe has already been defined. The only problem is remembering the differences between the two, like "loop 30" in ACTools would be "for h=1,30 do" in LUA.
The other thing I do with this is copy and paste my LUA script into ACTools, and it has a little Beautify function that spaces everything out for you nicely. You just have to replace all for's with loop's first (and not forget to switch them back). Does anyone use a good editor that can pull this off with direct LUA Scripts?
constants
number = 1
xc = 0
yc = 0
end
delay 2 sec
loop 12
loop 8
keys fade
keys $number
keys {space}
keys = Sprite.Create(fadeframe,0,4,$xc,$yc)
keys {return}
inc number
loop 32
inc xc
end
end
setconst xc = 0
loop 16
inc yc
end
end
