[Solved] RollForward action

[thelastsecret]

I would like to add a screen with the RollForward action that basically allows to skip to the next say screen:

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screen manually_continue:
    textbutton "Continue!!!":
        action [RollForward()]

However, if that part of the game has not been played yet, rolling forward is disabled. Is there any way to force a roll forward nevertheless? Or to enable rolling forward or make a part of the story "played" already? (There is a variable to enable skipping, so maybe there is an analogue somewhere?)

Thank you in advance for your help!

[Ocelot]

When you play the game, it constantly does little saves in certain points. You can then load those saves to restore game to some previous state. That what rollback does. If you want to load save "past" your current positin, it is rollforward. You cannot roll worward pas latest position because there is no save. Game does not know what the game state will be at that point, because you can literally do anything. It is like undo/redo function in editors. If you undo something in Photoshop, you can redo it again, but when you get to the latest version of your image, you cannot redo anymore.

If your goal is to dismiss a say statement, you just need to end current interaction. Which can be done with Return() action.

[thelastsecret]

When you play the game, it constantly does little saves in certain points. You can then load those saves to restore game to some previous state. That what rollback does. [...]
If your goal is to dismiss a say statement, you just need to end current interaction. Which can be done with Return() action.

Thank you for your explanation! Now I finally understand why RollForward() doesn't work.
Unfortunately, Return() also doesn't work: it just returns to the main menu, since I open the screen from the start label... So what would be the right action to just proceed to the next interaction? Or do I have to overwrite something of the say screen?
EDIT: Everything works, thank you very much!

[Ocelot]

Did you try it? Return action is a misnomer, it does not have any relation to the return statement. It just ends current interaction and optionally sets the result of current interaction to some value.

[thelastsecret]

Did you try it? Return action is a misnomer, it does not have any relation to the return statement. It just ends current interaction and optionally sets the result of current interaction to some value.

I did try it out and it didn't work, but... given your reply I have tried again – and this time it works!
I have no idea what I did wrong before, because in the meanwhile I've changed all kind of other things, but I must have had a stupid mistake somewhere. So thank you very much once more for your help!