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Wanderer Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 94

Ok I had an earlier thread about this, and have since made a lot of progress on it. However, I am currently at a roadblock.

A quick summary of what i'd doing: Creating a custom slow walk feature, because when i use the #WALK command on an automap, it clears the slowwalk path. SO basically i use a path to scan all the rooms in an area, but when i am walking back to sell some stuff, i use #WALK to get the direct route.

So here's what i have so far. I have the path i want saved in a string list. I have a variable that i use as an index to keep my place on the path. What i am having trouble with is the confirmation system. I do not really care about what happens if it is a null travel, because all these paths will be tailored to go in rooms that exist and so forth. I am trying to do this based on the prompt.

so i have a path like this @path e|e|e|e|n|n|n
and then an index @pathindex

rooms look essentially like this:

short desc(exits)
prompt>
here's a sample room

The Plains(n, w, s, e)
HP:200 EP:200>

so how i've been trying to do this is make an alias like this
#ALIAS steppath {%exec(%item(@path,@pathindex);@pathindex = %eval(@pathindex + 1)}

and an alias to start it
#ALIAS startpath{@pathindex = 1;%exec(%item(@path,@pathindex);@pathindex = %eval(@pathindex + 1)}

and then a trigger to push it forward

#TRIGGER {HP~:%d EP~:%d}{steppath}

now i realise i need to make a flag for when it should use that trigger to walk forward and when i want it to stay, but thats for later, after it actually walks. Anyways, as you may have guessed by the fact that i'm posting.... This all isnt working. So any advice on a confirmation system would be greatly appreciated.

Wanderer Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 94

Ok so specifically here's what happens.

I hit startpath, it moves in one direction, and then hangs. However, if another line comes on the screen below it, it works!. SO I have no idea whats going on

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Whichever trigger signals a successful movement you'll need to change so that it triggers on prompt as well as newline.
That's what got the mapper working for me at least.

(edit: You set this in the properties for the trigger)

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

#TRIGGER {HP~:%d EP~:%d} {steppath} "" {prompt|nocr}

Wanderer Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 94

So it works now, but i dont really understand what you mean Guinn. Also nexla, what is "" {prompt|nocr} doing besides making it work :)

Sorry i'm so much trouble. I just have to understand it all so i can modify and customize.

_UMDBANDIT_

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Wanderer Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 94

thats a really useful piece of knowledge

thansk a lot

_UMD