SugarCube load game in passage?

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• nicolem

  April 2015

  Put this in your JavaScript:

  $(document).on("click", "a#trigger", function(){
$("#menu-saves a").trigger("click");
});

  And this in a passage:

  <a id="trigger">open save game</a>

  This should work in both SugarCube 1.x and 2.x, on either Twine 1 or 2. (Assuming nothing changes between now and the SugarCube 2.0 release.)
• Claretta

  April 2015

  Thank you!
• Claretta

  April 2015

  Hmmm, any easy way to get the link to appear as a button?
• nicolem

  April 2015

  I'd probably just CSS it. http://css3buttongenerator.com/
  
  But if you want it an actual button:

  <button type="button" id="trigger">Button.</button>
• Claretta

  April 2015

  I came across my own solution while you were writing that, using the SugarCube macro:

  
<a id="trigger"><<button "Load Game">>Load Game<</button>></a>

• nicolem

  April 2015

  Huh, I didn't know you could do that.
  
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6393827/can-i-nest-a-button-element-inside-an-a-using-html5
  But that said, while it certainly worked in everything I just tried it in, it's not formally allowed, and this page raises a good point, that even <button> on its own really should be wrapped in <form>.
  
  Again though, it DOES work, and probably will continue to do so, so while it might not be best practice...
• TheMadExile

  April 2015

  Please, just use the API.  For example:

  <<button "Load Game">><<script>>UISystem.saves()<</script>><</button>>

  
  

  nicolem wrote:

  
  and this page raises a good point, that even <button> on its own really should be wrapped in <form>.
  

  
  
  Not unless it's part of an actual <form>.  The suggestion on that overflow to use a <form> to make a <button> act like an <a href=> is daft (the proper answer would have been something like <button onclick="location.href='http://example.com/'">Visit Website</button>).
• Claretta

  April 2015

  Ok. :P
  
  I looked at the API, just didn't know you could do that. Thanks!
• TheMadExile

  April 2015

  Every method under Built-ins in the UISystem API document opens one of the built-in dialogs (see: UISystem.saves()).
  
• Claretta

  April 2015

  Yeah, I was looking under the Save System API, not the UI API. If I had looked in the right place probably would have found the answer before opening this topic.
• TheMadExile

  April 2015

  It's not a problem (and without knowing any better, looking under SaveSystem wasn't a crazy idea, just not the right place as it turns out).  I just didn't want you using a Rube Goldberg machine for something which has simple solution.