[ZSDF]Random string support for YesMessage & NoMessage

[amv2k9]

Pretty much what it says. USDF can already print a string chosen at random from a set list in the LANGUAGE lump for use by an NPC in their dialog, so it'd be helpful if YesMessage & NoMessage could do this too.

[TheMightyHeracross]

USDF can already print a string chosen at random from a set list in the LANGUAGE lump for use by an NPC in their dialog

It can?

[amv2k9]

USDF can already print a string chosen at random from a set list in the LANGUAGE lump for use by an NPC in their dialog

It can?

Yeah. You can see it in action in vanilla Strife. Just talk to any guard, peasant or beggar more than once. The strings are stored in LANGUAGE, under TXT_RANDOM_PEASANT_01-10, TXT_RANDOM_AGUARD_01-05 and so forth.

[Xaser]

What's interesting is that those random strings are "dynamic" in the sense that you can use the same naming convention for totally new strings and ZDoom will detect them and have them use randomness too. Pretty neat.

[amv2k9]

Updated this to reflect the request being for ZSDF instead.

[Blzut3]

This was already part of the USDF 2.2 draft which I kind of forgot about myself and was basically approved by lack of comment.

[Nash]

My suggestion is to add a byechoice block which contains all the options of the current choice block except it can't have a cost (thus can't display one) and it would not have closedialog (always true). This would still allow mod authors to create "can't back out" situations by having the dialog switch the current page and/or execute a line special. Pressing escape should be equivalent to selecting this option. Hiding the option could be implied by the text being empty.

This was a very good proposal... I wonder why it was never implemented. :O

[Blzut3]

Like I said, I kind of forgot I did this (I don't even remember if it was questions during SVE development or something else that prompted it) and the recent interest in the Strife dialogs reminded me that I never implemented these things. I'll put that back on my short list unless someone else has an interest in taking a stab at it.