Re: [ Idea ] actf() ?!?!

From: George (greerga@DRAGON.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU)
Date: 10/07/97


On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Erwin S. Andreasen wrote:

>If you want to make act() more useful, consider:
>
>http://pip.dknet.dk/~erwin/letters/act.txt
>
>Implementing such an act system would reduce something like:
>
>act ("You slap $N!", ch, NULL, victim, TO_CHAR);
>act ("$n slaps you!", ch, NULL, victim, TO_VICT);
>act ("$n slaps $N!", ch, NULL, victim, TO_NOTVICT);
>
>to:
>
>act ("$n slap$% $N!", ch, NULL, victim, TO_ALL);

Handy, want to do it? :)

>Roughly; Circle seems to have some other extra parameter after the format
>string which MERCs do not.

That's the 'hide if invisible' flag.

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