/****** This room is made my Mithal, learn and enjoy ***/
#include "path.h"
inherit "/std/room";
void setup() {
set_short("add_item room #3, verbs ");
set_light(100);
set_long("add_item room #3, verbs \n"
"As you know, things can be read, kicked, etc... in DiscWorld. "
"Therefore we need to make our items respond to actions. The "
"old way to do this is through add_action. Unless you are "
"experienced, you should not use this function. add_item "
"provides many facilities to do this which are much better to "
"write, easier to understand, and have less chance of 'bugging' "
"out on you.\nA large oak.\nA note.\n\n");
add_item("note", ({ "long", "It can be read.",
"read", "As you can see, this note can be read, "
"this is our first introduction to verbs. "
"The code that does this:\n"
" add_item(\"note\", ({ \"long\", \"It can be read.\" \n"
" \"read\", \"As you can see ... \" }) );\n"
"This uses a mixed variable in the description part of the "
"add_item. The members of the mixed variables are strings which "
"come in pairs. Notice that \"long\" is not \"look\" this is just "
"a simple way to specify a whole range of verbs that return this "
"description, namely: look, examine, ... \n"
"After printing out the message the add_item program prints out to "
"the person reading the note: \"You read a note.\" More generally: "
"\"You <verb> <indefinate artical> <item>.\" Similarly everyone "
"else in the room sees: \"Fred reads a note.\"\n\nA description of "
"the tree can be found in treenote.\n" }));
add_item("treenote", ({ "long", "Read it nim wit!",
"read", "Here is the add_item for the oak:\n"
" add_item( ({\"large oak tree\",\"large oak\"}) , ({ \n"
" \"long\",\"It looks like it can be climbed and cut.\"\n"
" \"climb\",\"You get half way up, and climb back down.\\n\"\n"
" \"cut\",\"You cannot hurt this tree!\\n\" })); \n\n"
"Oh joy. Notice that it always prints out:\n"
" \"You <verb> a large oak.\" \n"
"It picks the first description of the item from the mixed array.\n"
"Some times you can interfere with item commands or soul commands "
"by installing these actions. But, the interference would be more "
"if you used add_action!.\n" }));
add_item( ({ "large oak tree", "large oak" }) , ({
"long", "It looks like it can be climbed and cut.",
"climb", "You get half way up, and climb back down.\n",
"cut", "You cannot hurt this tree!\n" }) );
add_exit( "east", PATH +"many_verbs", "path" );
add_exit( "west", PATH +"many_names", "path" );
add_exit( "start", MAIN, "path" );
add_exit( "exit", LEARNING +"search", "path" );
}
