yeah, her last paparazzi pics wern't a hit...

Found on Uhall...  Interesting read.  With a direct reference to UO.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

The fixes are all mentioned there.  Only the fix which opens beetles backpack isn't fixed yet.  I have been playing with it, yesterday in fact, and can't get the beetle pack to open for the life of me.

Okay...  So I guess it's just a way to organize variables. Now...  Might we use a sub of TM's then as example?
; %1 = spell number
; %2 = #TARGETID or SELF or NONE
; %3 = retry count (-1 = cast until successful)
; %4 = cast delay
; %5 = recovery delay
sub TM_NewCastSpell
  namespace push
  namespace local NCS
  set !lpc #LPC
  set #LPC 100
  set !whichspell %1
  set !whichtarget %2
  set !castretrymax %3
  set !waitdelay %4
  set !recovery_delay %5
...In this snip from his recall sub, the %1 - %5 throws me off I guess.  But now I am thinking that those variables he sets are just ways to call the sub a different way easier by just changing the actual gosub line.  For instance...

gosub TM_NewCastSpell 31 !rbook 10 20 20 

He could've added %6 as a variable.

then,

; %6 = eat apple after recall

set !eatapple %6
the new sub would be called like this:

gosub TM_NewCastSpell 31 !rbook 10 20 20 #TRUE
if somewhere in the sub he programmed the %6

if %6 = #TRUE
finditem apple in pack
eat it
etc, etc

Thank you EN for taking the time to help.  I tried to wrap my skull around that analogy, but...

Why would I want to use different boxes?

Would i want a box for each sub and name them like you did in your analogy as "namespace local Testbox" (a subs variables) and have "namespace local Testbox2" (another subs variables) ?

I tried to find one of your subs in the public library, so that maybe you might break it down a bit more, and noticed you don't use namespaces in any of them.  lol... 

I agree.  Congrats Monoxide... there is A LOT to learn. 

 Laymens terms FTW!  I don't know much, and sure would like to see more examples of code, torn down and interpreted line by line, variable by variable... In english, not computer science.  That would be awesome.  I spent about 3 hours shredding through google, trying to learn a little more about namespaces.  I got almost nowhere,  I am sure if it were explained in english, I could figure it out eventually, with a little help from the natives...  But I got lost on a programming site that was trying to teach me java script, and C++ and some other stuff that wont help me sleep tonight.

 

Sorry I misworded.

Therefore... if the gump is at #contposx: 30  and #contposy: 30 on your screen, then  you are just adding 30 to each coordinate where the button is within the gump.

That's what i meant to say.  And here I was trying to write in plain non-scripted human code that makes sense.
 

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