Hiding Sections of Text

[KVonGit]

I just discovered an old trick to create an output section to hide text whenever we please, using Quest functions.

Here's an example script. (I tested this in a "before entering room for the first time" script, but we can do this in whatever script(s) we want.)

      // Start a new output section
      // The function will return the name of the section
      // We need to store the section name as an attribute, for later use
      // We'll store this data in a "section_to_delete" attribute on the 'lounge' object
      lounge.section_to_delete = StartNewOutputSection()
      // Now, we can print whatever we want to be removed
      msg ("This message will self-destruct!")
      // Whenever we are done printing text, end the output section
      // (We are using the attribute we created to store the section name)
      EndOutputSection (lounge.section_to_delete)
      // We want this text gone after this turn
      // Use a turn timeout, set to 1 turn
      SetTurnTimeout (1) {
        // Hide the output section, using the attribute we created for this purpose
        HideOutputSection (lounge.section_to_delete)
      }

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Output Section Example.zip

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Important

Any text that prints in between the call to to StartNewOutputSection and EndOutputSection will be hidden when HideOutputSection is called to hide that section.

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Here's the game I stole the idea from:

https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/yy0qt1xtp0yrrn5tdvdtiq/spondre