@Board Info Dialog
$Board Info Dialog

!title;Title
!darkness;Board is Dark
!zap;Re-enter When Zapped
!timelimit;Time Limit
!maxshots;Maximum Shots
!boards;Adjacent Boards
!boardlink;* Link feature *
!size;Board Size

Use ENTER to toggle or edit each of these
properties. The LEFT and RIGHT arrows, as
well as + and - will increase and
decrease each option, where possible.

:title;Title

Press enter to change the title of the
board. The title may be up to 34
characters and may use the $ and !; zzt
markup characters for special effects in
the board dialogs.

:darkness;Board is Dark

Enter will toggle between darkness and
brightness. The player must use torches to
see in a dark room.

:zap;Re-Enter When Zapped

When this option is on and the player is
shot or is touched by an enemy, he will
be moved back to the position where he
entered the room.
!-zap;Ways the player is "zapped"

When the player is zapped, he or she is
returned to the position set by Re-Enter X
and Re-Enter Y. Modifying these values is
usually not useful, however, because ZZT
sets them whenever the player enters a
board.

:timelimit;Time Limit

A limit can be imposed on the amount the
player may spend in a room. Once the time
expires, the player is zapped and the
counter starts over.

This is most useful in combination with
"Re-enter when zapped".

Objects can #give and #take time.
However, #give moves the counter closer
to zero, while #take gives the player
more time. If #take would put the timer
over the time limit, it does not work and
the message in take is sent.

:maxshots;Maximum Shots

This option determines how many shots the
player may fire at the same time on a
board. A player cannot fire until less
than this number of his or her bullets
remain on the board.

:boards;Adjacent Boards

This option links boards together so that
the player can travel from one room to
another by moving off the screen.

:boardlink;* Link feature *

KevEdit has a special feature to aid in
the proper linkage of boards. An asterisk
will appear next to any adjacent board
which links back to the current board in
the opposite direction. To force the other
board to link backward, simply press '*'
when that board is selected.

Take that ZZT Editor.

:size;Board Size

The size of the current board is displayed
at the bottom of the Board Info Dialog in
units of both bytes and kilobytes, with
1024 bytes to a kilobyte (not 1000!). If
this value exceeds 20,000 bytes then the
number will show red.

There is much debate over exactly what the
board size limit is for ZZT. By consensus,
boards become unstable somewhere near
20KB, but no one has yet proven any
specific value. 20,000 bytes, which is
just 469 bytes short of 20KB, seems as
likely a candidate as any number.