I want to have a messagebox with quotes and a description of a console command in it. However, quotes (and apparently player-> is not allowed..). I want to use both in my messageBox, such as:

messageBox, "The command is "player->setlevel x"."

Which would output

.

However, quotes are not allowed. When I tested in game without using quotes, the output was:



Weird. It just chopped the player part right out. Anyone know a workaround to using un-allowed characters?

There seems to be a no-no flag set for quite a few nonalphanumeric characters (*, `, '[, ]...)

I don't know about the scripting protocol for the Elder Scrolls scripting language, but have you tried the generic escape character (backslash)?

Example:

messageBox, "The command is \"player->setlevel x\"."

Thought about it, didn't try it. I'll get back.

Edit: Nope, that doesn't work. Nor does the ^ that is used for string variables (^PCRace, ^PCName, etc).

You may be able to do it if you compile the script with a placeholder, then hex-edit the characters after saving it. The only problem is you'll have to edit it after every save.

Yes but when the script is reading the messageBox prompt, won't it automatically stop when it gets to the first non-functional quote (not the quotes that denote the message, the quotes that I want to put in), and then throw an error because you have random gibberish after that?

Nope. It's already compiled and just told to retrieve a null-terminated string. If you added a null, things would probably break. Qarl used hex-editing after saving for some message boxes with double-quotes in them in the Underground, IIRC.

I'll try it sometime, then. I was thinking that the scripts were compiled at runtime.

It is compiled into bytecode by the tescs

Did you try to use apostrophes for outer quotes? Or you can settle for apostrophes as inner quotes instead.

Also, if you *really* need some nonalphanumeric characters (first check whether they are present in the Magic Cards font that Morrowind uses; it's pretty much limited compared to regular Windows fonts), you can try the trick that worked for me when I needed a newline formatting - type the text with desired characters replaced by some allowed character that you won't use, say '|'. Compile the script and save the mod. Now open the mod file with a hex editor, find your messagebox' text (it will be present in two instances - first goes compiled code, then source text; you need the former) and manually replace |'s with what you need. Just don't do it if you still plan to debug or modify the script, as recompiling will erase your efforts.

Keep in mind that I haven't used this method with characters other than CR, so I can't guarantee that you won't get a CTD .

I wonder if that's why player-> disappears also.