Well I’ve finally made a stab at actually documenting the Hosted SEL libraries, hopefully it is now a bit clearer how to go about doing some of the complex stuff involved in gamebook making here.  Any suggestions for other documentation let me know (I do hope to do an ‘Idiots Guide’ at some point for the basic stuff).

The PaperDoll Library while technically documented still needs a general usage guide as it’s not self-evident how to use it.

Some browsers may have had trouble with Username/SID not matching errors when trying to use the play area after logging in here.  Hopefuly this has been resolved (my phone browser kept complaining anyway and I’ve sorted it)

Never noticed a small typo in the link to create a new account. Duh. Fixed

Using the Login on the Forum or the CMS will log you in everywhere on the site. I hope. Works for my accounts. If you have problems let me know.

Edit: I have already encountered a glitch in the single user access to the Gamebook area, but have been unable to recreate it. If you get an ‘incorrect SID/UserName’ error on a whitepage please let me know what you did if you can remember.

I claimed the password/login from the play area would work in the CMS/Forum.

Well… they would have done if I’d remembered to strip the trailing newline character :embarrassed:

They do now.  Sorry about that.

New users may now create new accounts with the play area again.  Any new accounts will also be automatically added to the CMS and New Forums databse.  No signing up 3 times for one site around here 🙂

(Mind you please note that at this time if you have lost your password and use the retrieve password facility of the CMS/Forum the play area password will NOT be updated, contact me)

If you were already a member of the play area of FightingFantasy.Org you should now find your Login and Password for the play area also works on the new Forum and this area of the CMS (i.e. you can comment on posts like this one using your play area login).

Some users may want to log in and check their email adress settings – since there was duplication of email addresses in some users accounts I had to use dummy addresses in the database update for these accounts.

I’m sorry to say I have been unable to transfer details for some 20 user accounts (I do not know which ones), due to technical issues.  If you find you are unable to login to this new front end with your play area account you may be one of those affected – please email me or create another account here and let me know (note this is important if you wish to continue using your play area account as account verification will depend on this in the future)

I am closing new sign ups to the play area for the time being until I get the User System integrated with the CMS.  Existing users will still be able to login in for a while (until I get to converting the play files themselves)

I have added a new Forum, which is integrated with the CMS so you can post comments here there and everywhere.  The old Forum will be deleted once I have modified the new one satisfactorily.

Am currently re-organising the FF file structure as a consequence you will find a lot of the appearance aspects completely mashed up.  Sorry!