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Hi, I'm new to Twine and not great with JavaScript. I'm trying to make a maze puzzle game in the form of a "building" (inspired by Christopher Manson's MAZE), with room entrances offered as choices. Once the player has entered a new room, I want the room from which the player arrived to be "locked", with link text deactivated, until the player reaches it from a different path—meaning the player should not be able to go directly backward to a room that has just been visited, but can revisit if the room is offered as an option again at a later time. 

I poked around and the lastVisited function looks perfect for this since it can track how many clicks/rooms away from a particular Room X the player has gone. 

With a value of -1 being never visited Room X , 0 being in Room X, 1 being just past Room X, and 2 being two turns/clicks past the room, I'd want the link to Room X to deactivate if lastVisited("Room X") is equal to 1. For all other cases, if lastVisited("Room X") is less than 1 or equal to or greater than 2 the link should stay activated or be reactivated. This would have to work for each of around 20 rooms.

How would I implement this? 

 

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It's probably easiest to use the previous() function inside of a widget.  So make a passage for your widgets (the name doesn't matter) and add the "widget" and "nobr" tags.  Then put this in that passage:

<<widget "Exit">>
	<<if $args[0] !== previous()>>
		<<if $args[1] === undefined>>
			[[$args[0]]]<br>
		<<else>>
			[[$args[1]|$args[0]]]<br>
		<</if>>
	<</if>>
<</widget>>

(Note: This will create a passage titled "$args[0", you will need to delete that passage for this widget to work.)

Now you can do something like this in your passages:

Exits:
<<Exit "Room1" "North">><<Exit "Room2" "South">><<Exit "Room3" "East">><<Exit "Room4" "West">>

That will display something like this:

Exits:
North
South
East
West

With those links going to Rooms 1-4, but if any were the previous room you were in then they won't be listed.

Hope that helps! smiley

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Thanks you! It works awesomely. What does the $args and the

[[$args[1]|$args[0]]]

mean (if it's not too complicated to explain)?

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"Args" is short for arguments.  And the number in the brackets is the number of the argument (starting with zero).

So when you call a widget like:

<<widgetName "argument1" 2 "argument number 3" $value>>

then $arg[0] will equal "argument1", $arg[1] is the number 2, $arg[2] is "argument number 3", and $arg[4] will be whatever the value of $value is.

For more information see the <<widget>> macro in the documentation.

So if you call:

<<Exit "Room1" "North">>

Then:

[[$args[1]|$args[0]]]

would be:

[[North|Room1]]

Which would show a link that displays "North", but clicking that link takes you to the passage titled "Room1".

See links markup in the documentation for details.

Hope that helps! smiley

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