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| Trask
Australia (23 posts) Bio
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| Tue 29 Sep 2009 10:25 AM (UTC) |
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| Hey guys,
Quick question on TinyMUD, what's the best way to take a new input from the player? I was doing it by changing connstates, so as to require a new sArgs, but I don't think that's the most efficient way. I'm sorry for not being more specific, my computer died two weeks ago either from living in a tent full of dust, or running it from generator power, and maybe receiving a power spike, not sure which, but I can't copy the code to show you unfortunately.
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| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #1 on Tue 29 Sep 2009 10:27 PM (UTC) |
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| Do you mean, new commands (eg. swim). Or new things to ask when they connect (eg. what class do you want to be?).
For connecting questions, I would add a new connstate, as that controls the sequence of things asked before you actually start playing. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Reply #2 on Wed 30 Sep 2009 04:45 AM (UTC) |
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| I'm trying to create a TODO menu.
I've got a map with int keys, and string values, that writes itself to a file. when the coder types 'todo' it
prints out the current todo list, along with a menu at the
bottom (A)dd, (R)emove, (M)ove, or (Q)uit. at this point I've currently got
*p-> connstate = "AwaitingMenu" which calls a new function that takes a char input, runs it through switch() to make sure it's valid, and if it's say (A)dd, it changes the connstate again to "AwaitingString", calls a new function that takes sArgs and writes it to the map. Both AwaitingMenu and AwaitingString are specific to the TODO list, I couldn't find a way to make them general for reuse in any other menus I come up with in the future, which means even more connstates. Is this the best method?
Thanks very much for the help! | | Top |
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| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #3 on Wed 30 Sep 2009 04:52 AM (UTC) |
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| I'm not particularly fond of modal stuff like that, for example if you had the todo list up, and then a lot of stuff arrived from the MUD (eg. chat) then the fact that you are supposed to pick something from a list is hidden somewhat.
I would personally rework it so they type a single line, eg. TODO to show the list, and then TODO REMOVE 1 (or something similar) to remove item 1 from the list. This is then a single command and you don't need to change the connstate. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
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| Reply #4 on Wed 30 Sep 2009 01:58 PM (UTC) |
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| That's a really good point, I think I'll do it your way.
As always, Thanks very much for the help Nick.
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