WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 5 - Revision history

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	==Interlude: Testing your WML==		==Interlude: Testing your WML==

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	[/scenario]		[/scenario]
	Congratulations! You have now written your first functional scenario! Go, give it a try! Play it! When you're ready to keep going, head to ~~[[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 6]]~~		Congratulations! You have now written your first functional scenario! Go, give it a try! Play it! When you're ready to keep going, head to the next chapter.

	~~or head back to [[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 4]]~~

	~~Return to Main Index~~:		{{Navigation\|[[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 4\|'''Chapter 4'''<br>Creating Your First Scenario]]\|[[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 6\|'''Chapter 6'''<br>Custom Units]]}}
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			==Interlude: Testing your WML==

			Having completed chapter 4, the game should be able to load your campaign. The next chapter will make your campaign more interesting, but already it's worth regularly loading the campaign in the game - at some stage you'll make some typos, and the earlier you notice that it's broken the less code you'll have to read to find the bug.

			To make the game notice changes to the WML files, either press F5 on the title screen, or start the game from the command line with the ''--nocache'' option.

			There are various [[Maintenance tools]] which can help with checking for errors. {{DevFeature1.15\|?}} There will be a lot of work on a new tool, described in the [[ValidationFAQ]]; however as of 1.15.5 it's not user-friendly yet.

	==Chapter 5: Events==		==Chapter 5: Events==

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Nested Events

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	[/scenario]		[/scenario]
	Congratulations! You have now written your first functional scenario! When you're ready to keep going, head to [[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 6]]		Congratulations! You have now written your first functional scenario! Go, give it a try! Play it! When you're ready to keep going, head to [[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 6]]

	or head back to [[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 4]]		or head back to [[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 4]]

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Nested Events

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Nested Events

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	[objective]		[objective]
	description= _ "Death of your leader"		description= _ "Death of your leader"
			condition="lose"
			[/objective]
			[objective]
			description= _ "Turns run out"
	condition="lose"		condition="lose"
	[/objective]		[/objective]
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	[/endlevel]		[/endlevel]
	[/event]		[/event]
	[/scenario]		[event]
			name=time over
			[message]
			speaker=MyLeader
			message= _ "I give up. This is taking too long..."
			[/message]
			[endlevel]
			result=defeat
			[/endlevel]
			[/event]
			[/scenario]
	Congratulations! You have now written your first functional scenario! When you're ready to keep going, head to [[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 6]]		Congratulations! You have now written your first functional scenario! When you're ready to keep going, head to [[WML for Complete Beginners: Chapter 6]]

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The "time over" Event

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Chapter 5: Events

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	As mentioned before, there are quite a few events available to you in WML. Of these, the most commonly used are the ''prestart'' event, the ''start'' event, and the ''moveto'' event.		As mentioned before, there are quite a few events available to you in WML. Of these, the most commonly used are the ''prestart'' event, the ''start'' event, and the ''moveto'' event. In our example here we shall also mention the ''last breath'' event, the ''die'' event, and the ''time over'' event.

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The "time over" Event

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	A rather typical time over event would look like this:		A rather typical time over event would look like this:
	[event]		[event]
			name=time over
	[message]		[message]
	speaker=MyLeader		speaker=MyLeader