vincesfamily

thanks, everyone. It appears that garmin has come out with a base camp update (3.1.3) that addresses the problem.

I use Mapsource to download to my etrex. It's worked fine for several years, but sometime between mid-December and last week it stopped accepting my .loc files. Now when I try to open one, it tells me it can't open the files. The old files from December are still there, and they open. Can anyone tell me if something has changed that would make mapsource refuse to open my files and what to do about it? thanks!

I almost gave up programming this thing when I got an "unspecified error" and a shutdown when testing my cartridge in the field. It took me a long time and some testing before I discovered that the Play Alert Sound command will cause this error on the Colorado. Why didn't someone say this somewhere??? Well, here it is. Maybe it will save someone else some time.

This should do just fine. I wish there had been a "pause until the player presses the "okay" button" command to use. Things would've been easier. Thanks!

How can I display a series of messages (not dialogs, because the messages need button scripts) to run so that they pause after each message. If I run a series of messages, the emulator either runs through them so fast that I can't read them and ends on the final message, or it just skips to the last message. Inputs pose the same problem. I present a dialog culminating in a riddle and I then want an input, but all the emulator does is show me the getinput screen. I know I could set the riddle up as a task, but that doesn't really flow well, and I really need the messages with button script problem solved. Also, can this be done using just the editor? Every time I type anything at all in the author section the program fails to load. Thanks for your help. Steve

Thanks, a_snail and rangerfox! You've both been very helpful!

I need to trigger an event when the player gets a certain distance away from his current location, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can use in the interface. How can I retrieve coordinates from the GPS device? Would a negative number in the "distance range" box have the desired effect?

Fixed it! Both responses helped me think of a solution. I opened cartridge in notepad and noticed that some of the media files' "type" were listed as "jpeg" and some were listed as "jpg." Those listed as jpeg were not attaching! I just edited out that "e" in there and they worked! Thanks!

I'm trying to attach an image to a message. When I open the "media to show" box, it has a list of all of my images, but the image I want will not attach. The box just resets to "none." I tried the other images listed, and only about 1/3 of them were accepted for attachment. The ones that were accepted were of various types (i.e. jpeg, gif, png, etc. and of widely varying dimensions and size. All those rejected were jpegs and those were also of various sizes (91x91 to 180X287). All the images had been previously attached to other things like zones, items, characters, etc., if that makes any difference. What's going on?