Dialog Settings Target Block

One of the blocks in MGS Natlang, occurring exclusively inside dialog settings blocks.

Several choices:

• default {}
  • Describes the default behavior for all dialogs in the same file.
• entity $string {}
  • Describes the default dialog settings for a specific entity.
• label $bareword {}
  • Defines a dialog identifier shortcut or alias to a specific set of settings.
  • The label name must be a bareword, not a quoted string.
  • Dialog labels only exist in MGS Natlang (not the MGE itself), so they do not apply to other entity references (such as the target of an action).

Block contents: any number of dialog parameters (dialog property and value pairs) — in any order. No commas or semicolons needed. (For now!)

Example

settings for dialog {
  label PLAYER {}
}

This is a common use case for dialog settings, after which you can use PLAYER instead of entity "%PLAYER%" as a dialog identifier for dialogs.

// with label
dialog test {
  PLAYER "Dialog message"
}

// without label
dialog test {
  entity "%PLAYER%" "Dialog message"
}