Hello there, I've just downloaded Quest 5.2 (build 5.2.4515.24532) and tried to create a gamebook. I've looked at the wiki and searched the forum, and from what I've seen it appears that others must be using it successfully.

When I play the gamebook, none of the links work - clicking on them doesn't do anything (other than select text if I keep clicking). This applies to anything I've written, but also the default page which says:


This is page 1. Type a description here, and then create links to other pages below.

This link goes to page 2

And this link goes to page 3


The code for the above is the default code, as follows:

<asl version="520" templatetype="gamebook">

<include ref="GamebookCore.aslx"/>

<game name="sss">
<gameid>4222d99b-25f5-48e1-9c1a-6f9601e106ac</gameid>
<version>1.0</version>
</game>

<object name="Page1">
<object name="player">
<inherit name="defaultplayer"/>
</object>
<description>This is page 1. Type a description here, and then create links to other pages below.</description>
<options type="stringdictionary">Page2 = This link goes to page 2;Page3 = And this link goes to page 3</options>
</object>

<object name="Page2">
<description>This is page 2. Type a description here, and then create links to other pages below.</description>
</object>

<object name="Page3">
<description>This is page 3. Type a description here, and then create links to other pages below.</description>
</object>

</asl>

Hm could this be because I have Windows 7? I have seen it working correctly on a second PC, running windows XP.

Not come across this problem before. What version of Internet Explorer are you using? (Note Quest uses IE to render its content, regardless of what your default browser is).

Is the machine locked-down in any way I wonder?

My version of Internet Explorer is Version 8.0.7601.17514
I can run a 64-bit version and a... not 64-bit version, both of which have the same version number.

I don't think I've ever run it except to originally download another browser, and just now to see what version it was. It's entirely possible that some configuration setting in Chrome or Firefox is doing something stifling and cruel to it, my knowledge of such matters is minimal.

I don't know what being locked down would entail, I'm running as the Administrator is that would rule such a scenario out?

Yes if you're running as administrator then I don't think some kind of lock-down would be the problem.

May be worth upgrading to IE9 though to see if that helps?

Ok, I've now got IE9 or specifically a 64-bit version: 9.0.8112.16421IC
And a non-64 bit version with the same number minus the letters IC at the end.

This has not affected the problem, however.

Looking over the security tab in IE9, virtually all the settings are set to 'disable' - things like .NET Framework, Scripting and so forth. Could there be some culprit on this list of features that I should set to 'enable'?

Aha, it was indeed something to do with the aforementioned disabled settings. Reverting IE9 to the "default" security setting has fixed the problem!

Excellent! Any idea how those settings got changed in the first place? I'm wondering if there's some kind of security software that might be "helpfully" changing these settings?

I don't know how they got changed, but I am willing to hazard a guess it could have been some option I selected when installing Firefox and/or Chrome. It might have also been something somebody suggested I do to internet explorer to make something else work, and I've forgotten completely about it.