Gull

Last update: 11 May 2002 (added a mention of the unofficial standard for window backgrounds to Text styles)

How to read this document
Credits

Section 1: an introduction to Glulx Inform

• What is interactive fiction?
• IF from farm to market:
  • From idea to source code
  • From source code to virtual machine code
    • (footnote on binary and hex)
  • From virtual machine code to your screen
• Brought to you by the letter "G":
  • Glk
  • Glulx and Glulx Inform
    • (footnote on 32-bit VMs)

Section 2: how to do stuff with Glulx Inform

• Getting started:
  
  • What you need to use Glulx Inform
  • Blorb
    • Blorb on DOS/Windows
  • Capabilites testing
    • (footnote on character sets)
• Glk windows
• Text styles
• Status lines
• Graphics:
  
  • Displaying PNG and JPEG images
    • Graphics in a text buffer window
    • Graphics in a graphics window
      • Graphics window handling
    • Graphics troubleshooting
  • Drawing your own images
• Sound and music
• Mouse input
  • Hyperlinks
• Pauses and real time
• File I/O

Section 3: sample Glulx Inform games

• Download!, demonstrating style hints and customized status lines
• Bipolar Bear, demonstrating graphics window handling
• Seppo's Diner, demonstrating music
• Tic-Tac-Torment, demonstrating graphics windows, the Glk drawing tools, and mouse input
• Three-Card Monkey, demonstrating graphics in a text buffer window and hyperlinks
• Acman Fever, demonstrating graphics windows, pauses, real time and animation
• Ork 1 and Ork 2, demonstrating file I/O