/****** This room is made my Mithal, learn and enjoy ***/
#include "defs.h"
inherit ROOM_OBJ;
void setup() {
set_short("add_item room #8, verb success messages ");
set_light(100);
set_long("add_item room #8, verb success messages\n"
"Let us continue with our rat. Suppose now that we want the "
"player to succeed - but that the default message is really "
"inappropriate. What we want to do is change the succeed "
"message! Let's say when the player goes to touch the rat "
"it tells him - As you touch the rat, it snarls. - "
"Unfortunately succeed messages are much more complicated "
"beacuse your message is going to two parties, the player and "
"other players in the room. So you can't put the words \"You\" and "
"\"touch\" directly into code, because \"Fred\" and \"touches\" are the "
"appropriate substitutions to be used for the audience. "
"Furthermore, if you are useing "
"multiple verbs, how do you know what verb the person used? "
"The solution is to use $V for verb and $N for player name.\n"
"A filthy rat.\nA note.\n");
add_item("note", ({ "long", "It can be read.",
"read", "Here is the code for the do_touch:\n"
"int do_touch()\n"
"{\n"
" this_player()->add_succeeded_mess(previous_object(),\n"
" \"As $N $V $D, it snarles.\\n\", ({}));\n"
" return 1;\n"
"}\n\n"
"The only difference between add_failed_mess and this one is "
"the message: When the message is processed for the player, "
"\"You\" is substituted for $N and \"touch\" for $V. Likewise, when "
"the message is processed for others: \"Fred\" is substituted for $N "
"and \"touches\" is substituted for $V. If you were using multiple "
"verbs, the appropriate verb would be used. There might be "
"other $ stuff in the docs( namely $D and $I if you have an "
"indirect object list.) There might be ones for pronouns and "
"possessives also. At last "
"resort, you can always make this string a null string! And "
"insert tell_other and tell_room call's directly in your code."
"Of course add_failed_mess and this one can be used together in "
"the same code...\n" }));
add_item("large filthy rat", ({
"long",
"It looks like it wants to be touched.",
"touch",
({ this_object(), "do_touch" }) }));
add_exit("west", __DIR__+"verb_failure", "path");
add_exit("east", __DIR__+"verb_patterns", "path");
add_exit( "start", MAIN, "path" );
add_exit( "exit", LEARNING+"search", "path" );
} /* setup() */
int do_touch() {
this_player()->add_succeeded_mess( previous_object(),
"As $N $V $D, it snarls.\n", ({}));
return 1;
} /* do_touch() */
