Zugg Software :: View topic - Extending a single-line show across multiple scripting lines

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I don't believe there's a way to do this, though it would be something I would suggest to consider for future implementation. Currently, if you break #show into multiple parts, they each go on separate lines. This is obviously far more useful than my suggestion, so I'm thinking of something more like a #showadd command which would be used in this rarer circumstance. When lines get particularly long, using CMUD wrapping features can get fairly messy looking. And it would be much more convenient then to be able to extend the #show statement across multiple lines.

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

err, why not just use multiple #SHOW commands? Or use a $local variable that you can append different smaller chunks to?

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Using multiple #show commands puts them on different lines. Currently, I tend to use a lot of local variables. However, I don't think I can put functions inside local variables, no?

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

Why would you want to put functions inside a variable?

$var = %concat(@function(),%function(),"more text")
repeat until you get the entire line built
#show $var

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Here's an example line that would get messy:

#show "You have searched through "$_entry" entr"%if($_entry>1, "ies", "y")" so far. However, you have "$_m_entry" entr"%if($_m_entry>1, "ries", "y")" left to search through."

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:05 am

Use #SAYADD instead?

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

#sayadd will append itself to the next line from the MUD before it appends itself to the last line (such as from #show) at least in my experience.

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:58 pm

One would assume that if a command #showadd was to be implemented it would work in the same way as #sayadd otherwise you would then have screen printing commands with a similar name that act differently leading to confusion.

Also perhaps you want #showprompt?

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

#showprompt might work, I'd have to play with it. And, if #showadd were added, the hope would be that it did function differently from sayadd, namely it would cmud output as its priority over mud output.

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

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Well, you're a GURU and I'm not. You see things differently than I do!

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:24 pm

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

No, I want the opposite of that. I'd like a command where I can have say:
#show "This is stuff. "
#showadd "But I'm not finished."

Would show up in cmud as:
This is stuff. But I'm not finished.

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:35 am

#showprompt "This is stuff. "
#show "But I'm not finished."

WILL show up in CMUD as:
This is stuff. But I'm not finished.

So for as long as you want the shows to keep adding to the line you use showprompt first and then when you want to finish the line and have a carriage return you use a standard show.

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:01 am

Personally, I don't see any real use for this command. Either do it the way Taz has shown or the way MattLofton has shown. For clarification on Matt's example:

$showme="This is stuff."
$showme=%concat($showme," But I'm not finished.")
$showme=%concat($showme," And here is some more.")
$showme=%concat($showme," Now I am finished.")
#SHOW {$showme}

A ridiculous example, but at least you can break it down step-by-step to see what you're adding when. No need to make a whole new command that probably only you would use.

Charneus

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:26 am