On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, John Evans wrote:
> > I will again grumble about how to know if one certain spec was hanged to
> > the one certain mob... :I
> >
>
> I'm working on code now that will not just show "SpecProc" when you stat
> a mob, but will give you the name of the spec proc as well. I don't know
> if it is even possible without some major changes, but I'm working on it
> because it's a very good idea. :)
It certainly is; just have some table set up like:
/* Three times the fun! */
#define SPECNAME(fun) { fun, #fun },
struct
{
SpecFun *fun;
char *name;
}
specfun_names[] =
{
SPECNAME(spec_something)
SPECNAME(spec_somethingelse)
{NULL, NULL} /* to terminate the table */
};
This will generate something like:
{ spec_something, "spec_somethig" }
(somewhat easier than having to type spec_something then
"spec_something").
If you come from a non-C background you may frown at those preprocessor
tricks, but I use whatever will allow me to add something in just one
place, and automatically update the table without me having to type the
same thing in N times.
Anyway, you'd then just run through this table, match spec fun pointers
and then return the appropriate string. And the other way when you want to
lookup a spec fun pointer from a string when loading the areas (which
AFAICS stock circle does not do right now, but assigns the spec fun via
hardcoding - which seems a bit an unfortunate way to do this; I guess this
was something inherited from Diku).
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Erwin Andreasen Herlev, Denmark <erwin@pip.dknet.dk> UNIX System Programmer
<URL:http://pip.dknet.dk/~erwin/> <*> (not speaking for) DDE
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