Zugg Software :: View topic - Something to be added to the new zMapper.

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:25 am

At the present time there is no way to remove room flags once they are set. So some function such as %delroomflags(vNum,stringlist), where "stringlist" would be the flag(s) to be removed (or left out indicating all flags), would be nice. Also, as I've stated before, there should be a way to disable all portals at once programmatically, and of course a way to re-enable them. %portaldisable(1) and %portaldisable(0) would work just fine. These would check and uncheck the "Disable all Portals" checkbox.

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:58 pm

Using the existing zMapper API, there is already a "UserInt" and "UserStr" field for each room where you can set/retrieve any sort of room flags that you need.

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:37 am

My complaint is that %roomflags(vNum,"") does not delete the stringlist that is already stored in the record. AFAIK, this can only be done manually.

As for disabling all portals at once, the only way I know how to do it is manually. I keep track of my portals in a db, and I've written a script that does enable and disable all portals in the db, but even with a high speed processor this code is noticeably slow. A native function that does this would be much faster and quite useful IMO. If you wonder why this would be needed, imagine entering a room which is a prison, this type fo room does not allow the use of portals. So putting a small routine that would set or reset the disable flag onroomenter, would be the way to handle this, very quickly and very efficiently. If the portal(s) are disabled %walk() will generate a speedwalk that does not include portal invocation.