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How about a counter that is set to 1 when in test mode (Alt T) or 0 when just playing the game naturally? Being able to easily set up differences in the game based on wether you are testing it or not would make debugging easier I think. Thanks for your consideration.

Something you can do almost always to see if the game is in test mode is this:

. "this is the temporary file used to back up the unsaved world in test mode"
set "__test.mzx" "FREAD_OPEN"

. "this is a sorta stupid special case usage of FREAD_POS that seeks the end of the file"
set "FREAD_POS" -1

. "If FREAD_POS returns -1, then there is no file open (ie, it doesn't exist)"
if "FREAD_POS" = -1 "noDebugMode"
set "debugMode" 1
: "noDebugMode"

. "always close the file by doing this"
set "" "FREAD_OPEN"

It can be shortened to

set "__test.mzx" "FREAD_OPEN"
set "FREAD_POS" -1
set "debugMode" "('FREAD_POS'>-1)"
set "" "FREAD_OPEN"

That said, it's not 100% foolproof. Adding a counter for this would be easy and look far less horrible in code.

Ok thanks, that's good to know. I've been setting a counter on the first board I start on when playing a natural (not test game). Basically that counter wouldn't be set when testing because you are starting on whatever board you have open in the editor. Kind of a workaround too, but it does the trick. Still a counter would be cool. Thanks.

Updating status to: Rejected

this isn't necessary, as there are multiple ways to already do this, as described

Moving to: Rejected Requests