On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, John Evans wrote:
> I am trying to get a random string to echo to a certain room via a special
> procedure for that room. Here is a shorter version of what I have:
>
> act("The squeaking of rats can be heard echoing through the sewers.",
> TRUE, ch, 0, 0, TO_ROOM);
>
> This method works great for mobs, but not for rooms. :(
> This snippet of code will compile and won't crash the mud, but it just won't do
> anything, and I've sat in the room for a good 10 minutes waiting for SOMETHING
> to happen. :)
>
> I didn't think that it would work, but it was all that I could think of.
> Perhaps, if I went to bed and came back to it, I'd think of a different way of
> doing it. :)
Perhaps I'm wrong here, but your problem might be that you don't have
a 'ch' when someone doesn't directly initiate the special procedure.
There's two things that come to me. This seems like it'll be forced
to do something whenever a person types a command in the room because
it lacks a 'if (cmd) return FALSE;'. Secondly, your act() calls should
be something like:
act("Whatever", FALSE, 0, 0, 0, TO_ROOM);
Now, I wouldn't suggest using any of the act codes in that, as it
would (quite obviously) cause problems, since you aren't passing any
pointers for act() to use to replace the codes.
I think the latter part is why the act()'s aren't working. The former
might be worthless precautions or disillusionment upon my part.
--
Daniel Koepke
dkoepke@california.com
Forgive me father, for I am sin.
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