Text Scroll Script - Enhanced

[DerVVulfman]

Oh

My

GAWD!!!

What a mess this script is!   Geez.  Oh, I'm gonna have to do a complete redo on this rather than look at this shamble I call a code.  Better to die of a million cuts!  Wait. No.  A million kittens!  Haha!  Yes.  Have you ever drowned in kittens?  It's so much worse than drowning in grown cats.  Oh, the allergies alone!

*cough*  Sheogorath moment there.........

Yeah, I have begun a base rewrite from the original source.  And already I have eliminated many of his Global variables, those that use '$' symbols.  In case you weren't aware, global variables tend to use more resources than other variables and should be used instead to identify class objects (ie $game_actors, $game_system, etc).

And I now have a new module... this should look entertaining:

Code:

module TextScroll
 
 # GAME TEXT FOLDER
 # ================
 # This single value determines the folder in which your scrolling
 # text may be found.  Do not use \ when separating folders, and
 # do not end the entry with a /.
 #  
   CACHE = "Data/Text"
 
   
 # GAME SCREEN DEFINITIONS
 # =======================
 # This section allows you to define the size of your game screen, this
 # if a resolution script is in play, one that may change the size of
 # the game window itself.
 #
   SCREEN_WIDTH  = 640
   SCREEN_HEIGHT = 480


 # SCROLLING TEXT FONTS
 # ====================
 # This section defines the start-up font used for the system, it can
 # be changed by way of $game_system script calls.
 #
   FONT_NAME     = "Tahoma"
   FONT_SIZE     = 24

 # SCROLLING TEXT SPACING
 # ======================
 # This section lets you determine how much space there is between each
 # individual line rendered (LINE_SPACING), and how much space is present
 # for each line before lettering is clipped (LINE_HEIGHT). Typically,
 # these are the same. But they need not be.
 LINE_SPACING  = 32
 LINE_HEIGHT   = 32
 
 
end

You may find some of this interesting.  You can actually set the Text files to be within a subfolder of the Data folder itself now.

Alas, this update is it for now as I have other duties tonight.