Cycling between options using the Harlowe (click-replace) macro

RatheadSyndicate

Hey all. I'm trying to allow players to choose a gender. Basically, what I've got is something to the effect of:

You're a dude.(click-replace: "dude")[(set: $gender to 'woman')lady]

What I'd like to do, and what I can't figure out how to do, is allow players to click on "lady," and thereby set the gender to 'man.' Any ideas?

ilaaa1390

Hi,
This might not be the best way but you could do something like this:

-set up two passages one for MALE and one for FEMALE and make MALE the starting passage.

- in the MALE passage try this:

(set: $gender to "male" )Gender: (print: $gender)

You're a dude.
(click: "dude")[(set: $gender to "female")(go-to: "female")]

and in the FEMALE passage, this:

Gender: (print: $gender)

You're a lady.
(click: "lady")[(set: $gender to 'male') (go-to: "male")]

This allows you to keep cycling between the two options. Hope that helps

greyelf

Normally when people want a Cycling Link in Harlowe I would suggest using Furkle's Cycling Link addon but in your case you want the $variable to store a different value to what is being shown to the Reader.

The following solution uses a child passage to handle the logic required to display the correct option to the Reader, to update the $gender variable and to (re-)attach the click event.

1. Add the following to the passage you want the choice to appear in:

(set: $gender to "man")

You're a |gender>[(display: "Choose Gender")]

[[Result]]

... the Result markup link is only needed to check the value of the variable.

2. Create a Choose Gender passage and add the following to it, this is the child logic passage:

(replace: ?gender)[(if: $gender is "man")[dude](else:)[lady]]
(click: ?gender)[
	(if: $gender is "man")[(set: $gender to "woman")]
	(else:)[(set: $gender to "man")]
	(display: "Choose Gender")
]

3. Add the following to the auto-created Result passage:

gender: $gender

sneklyn

Is there anyway to change this so that it works for more than two options/variables? For example, by using if-else statements or something similar?