Re: suggestion for the next patch level

From: George (greerga@DRAGON.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU)
Date: 10/14/97


On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Angus Mezick wrote:

>change the way exit flags work from being an int to a bit field.  If you
>move EX_PICKPROOF to (1<<1) you will not have to change the world format
>at all. (pickproof will have to be coded so that it automatically inserts
>EX_ISADOOR for sanity's sake)  I ran into this when adding a secret flag
>to the doors and was going to add a magic wall types that I wanted to have
>save to the doors.  right now doors just work in a freaky way.

Already did that in my MUD, but I believe that is there for backwards Diku
compatibility.  I would like to change it, if you can elaborate more on the
changes and they work fine with old and new formats, I'll make a change up
for it.

--
George Greer  -  Me@Null.net   | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity
http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard


     +------------------------------------------------------------+
     | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ:  |
     | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html |
     +------------------------------------------------------------+



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : 12/08/00 PST