On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, David Klasinc wrote:
-+ How to transfer the descriptor back? Sure there is ch->desc->original,
-+but whole desc-> was moved to the mob and now we have ch w/o desc and we
-+have mob->desc Am I right here?
The character is in the 'd->character' structure; that is, the active
character. So to switch back from the character to the 'orginal' you
simply use 'ch->desc->original' as the original character. If this
isn't what you're looking for, then I don't understand your question.
And you'd probably be better off to look at the do_switch() function,
anyway.
-+ if (ch->possessing) {
-+ ch->desc = ch->possessing->desc;
Why would you need to transfer back the original descriptor? It's
a pointer, and isn't (to my knowledge) explicitly cleared, so it is
still pointing to the same place as it was before. Hence, ch->desc
and ch->original->desc should be the same. If this isn't true (and
it might not be), then I would suggest looking at the do_switch()
code.
-+ ch->possessing->desc = NULL;
I don't understand the need for "possessing", either. d->character
is the active character data (mobile or otherwise); d->original is
the original character (always a PC, because mobs don't have descriptors
unless switched into). Possessing would take the same place as
d->character; and it certainly doesn't belong in the char_data struct
unless you want mobiles to be able to possess other characters; and then
that requires a different infrastructure than the switch command
entirely.
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