Add-Ons for ArianeB

[Arnulf]

qbv8, I for myself am very unhappy about this bug. But I also could not find the syntax problem. I repeatedly said all the sharkies to play the game with Firefox. Playing with Firefox makes no problems at all. The same bug happens with IE7 when you'll leave the pool after having played Marco Polo with Ari and Rebecca and Rebecca has touched Ari's breast. Having reached all conditions for the lesbian play and thereafter the threesome scenes, the game stucks, but is also working well with Firefox.

[qbv8]

Thank you, Arnulf, for the advice to use firefox. I will do this, but the bug is challenging. I think I will try to debug this when I have some more time, maybe during the weekend. And in the unlikely case of finding a fix, I will certainly post ist here :-)

Best regards

Nota bene: it is really frustrating when the game stops exactly THERE ;-)

[qbv8]

Hi folks,
I found the problem that causes ArianeB not to work properly with Internet Explorer (especially it freezes in her bedroom :-). The evil is that Microsoft has a keyword "break" and thus we are not allowed to define an own function with this name. After having found this out, the fix is simple: just one Byte to change! Change every occurrence of break() into break1(). The following files are affected:

In each of the files
[*] pic109d.htm
[*] pic109e.htm
[*] pic109f.htm
[*] pic61f.htm
[*] pic61g.htm
[*] pic61h.htm
you will find a line that looks like
break(); ...
change it to
break1(); ...

And in the files text109.htm and text61.htm you find a
"function break()"
Change this to be
"function break1()".

Voila, that should be all.

Enjoy!

[Arnulf]

Hi, qby8, you are a very superstar! I knew, that I would get problems some day, because I'm only a autodidact for javascrïpt and I deveoped my skill by doing. It is like a miracle that up to now my updates were working properly and if you agree, I'll include your findings in my next update (UP 16), which is under preparation. Now I've learned another most valuable detail about the "dammed" javascrïpt. Once more, thanks a lot!!

"Teifi eini, des is klass!"

[qbv8]

Hi Arnulf,
thank you for the compliment. Before you publish your UP 16, may be you would like to take into consideration another "extension" that I did: savegame.

I massaged the code a bit so that now it is possible to save the current state of the program --- and of course, to reload it again the next day :-) And for debugging purposes, the game has now also a "display status" button.

In case this would be of interest for your next update, just drop me a note and I will send you the diffs to UP-15.

[erana]

Hi, qbv8.

I also would be interested in that savegame function you wrote.

[qbv8]

Very well, I've sent you a PM.
I have other ideas I would like to work on, but these might take a bit longer than a weekend:
[*] internationalization - restructure the game so that we have all the text in one file (per language) and can parametrize it ...
[*] incorporating audio
[*] building an arousal meter (challenge for Arnulf the math guru: find a computable function that represents the grade of arousal :-)
[*] and of course: extending the storylines. There are so many paths still undiscovered ...

So much for today. Cheers.

[GBD]

Arnulf, erana, & qbv8:Does UP15 and will UP16 work on version 5.5?
The most I know about Java scrïpt is how to get totally confused in it. I'm mostly playing around in Paint Shop Pro 7.04 with different colors for hair, clothes, etc., but not having satisfactory results yet.If I find something that works and can remember how I did it, I post some results, but don't hold your breath.

[Arnulf]

The UPs all don't work on 5.5. We will try to make the add-ons working, but will take a lot of time. So be patient, I soon will release a final UP 16 for the old 5.0 based game. Then, if all runs OK, the 5.5 game should be extended to perform also the well known features.

[sharkfan]

I played some of 5.5 online and there are some mistakes.

[qbv8]

Right, there are programming errors of all kind in 5.5 up to missing files. I am in the process of reading the 55000 (read fiftyfive-thousand) lines of code, identifying the errors and working on fixes of the original ArianeB 5.5.

So, please be patient, ... pleeeeeeease ...

In the meantime, enjoy 5.5, post bug reports here, and when Arnulf releases his UP-16 upgrade for the old version, I am sure you will be occupied in a very intensive way ...

[erana]

I've taken a look at the v5.5 version. Well, I have to say, it efectively makes most of our updates and fixes for v5 (like the full strip in the bathtub and a whole, different "score with Rebecca" path) efectively obsolete or redundant. Arnulf probably will want to integrate the new and old pics and storylines, and I'm sure he'll be able to do it seamlessly. But I don't think I will continue myself, as right now I'm busy with another project.

[erana]

Since the version 5 (needed for our add-ons) is no longer available in the Ariane B website, here's a Rapidshare link to it:
http://rapidshare.com/files/206563485/d ... or_5.0.zip

[Arnulf]

Thank you, Erana for this grateful gift. Additionally, I give you a hint to a topic here in the lagoon, where a link is referred to the ArianeB datingsimulator, already upated with the original Erana add-on:
http://sharks-lagoon.aceboard.fr/215394-2094-5634-0-Ariana-Game-with-extra-scenes.htm#vb
This download from deposit files also can be used for the updates.

[Arnulf]

Hi, all Ariane fans!

The new and final UP 16 is about to be released. It now can be played with most of the browsers, such as IE7, Firefox, Opera and the relatively new Google Chrome

for Google chrome you need the following info from qbv8 for running smoothly the new functions of UP 16:

The savegame feature of ArianeB stores the state of the game into a local cookie on your machine. This requires that you enable cookies in your browser. So far, so easy.

The sad news
For Google Chrome now, the programmers have decided that local cookies (= cookies stored from a Javascrïpt that you have loaded from a local file on your computer) are a security threat --- whereas remote cookies, especially the cookies that are sent from Google, do not seem to be regarded as a threat ... Therefore, there is no option in the Google Chrome options menu to enable local cookies, and there will not be any according to the developers. Google Chrome seems to be the only browser in the known universe with this "feature". You can read the position of Google on this topic on http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=535

The good news
Nevertheless, there is a somewhat exotic way to convince Chrome to store local cookies: you have to specify this on the command line.

HOWTO (on Windows XP and Vista)
Somewhere on your desktop there is an icon to start Google Chrome. To enable local cookies within Google Chrome, proceed as follows:

1. Right click on the Google Chrome icon on your desktop, pull down the menu and choose "Properties" (for non-american systems: usually the last entry at the bottom of the menu).

2. You see a marked piece of text labeled "Target:" (on american systems) which represents the command line. This marked text looks roughly like "C:... mumble mumble ...chrome.exe". Please pay special attention to the quotation marks at the beginning and at the end of this string, they are siginificant.

3. At the end of this long command line, after the quotation marks, add a space and the option --enable-file-cookies such that after the change, your command line looks like

"C:... mumble mumble ...chrome.exe" --enable-file-cookies

4. Press OK.


Now a double click on this icon starts Google Chrome with local cookies enabled, and you can save the actual state of your Ariane.

Nota bene: ... and you don't want to know what I exclaimed when I found out why my add-ons did not run on Chrome ...(CENSORED)