OpenEuphoria

RE: weights of nested containers

• Posted by "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 16, 2004
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Rogers [mailto:michellerogers at bellsouth.net]
> Subject: Re: weights of nested containers
>
>
>
> That was part of the problem.  I only have each thing being
> carried have a
> number that marks what they are being carried by...  I don't
> have a sequence
> that holds everyone/thing that is being carried.  Will I need
> to have it
> like that?  I didn't WANT to do it that way.  But, am I going
> to have to?
>
> Currently to find out what is being carried by a person, here is an
> example....when the person enters the room, the message say
> "<Name> enters."
> however I wanted it to say this if they were carrying someone........
> "<name> enters, carring <othername> over their shoulder."  This is the
> function that generates the part of that message from the
> comma on.....This
> is how I check to see who's being carried.
>
> function carrymessage(integer whichplayer)
> sequence thecarrymessage,hisher
> integer foundit
>
>
> --This is just to determine gender of person entering the room
> if mudthings[whichplayer][8][22]=1 then hisher="his" else
> hisher="her" end
> if
>
> --Foundit determines if they are carrying anyone at all, so
> as to finish the
> message, if they are
> foundit=0
> thecarrymessage=""
>
> --mudthings include players, mobiles, objects, and rooms
> for x=1 to length(mudthings) do
>
>     --mudthings[x][5] is what "room" this one is in
>     --mudthings[whichplayer][1] is the id number of the person being
> checked, which determines if the "room" is actually that
> person, which would
> mean they are
> carrying this person
>      if mudthings[x][5]=mudthings[whichplayer][1] then
>           if length(thecarmessage)<0 then
>               thecarrymessage=thecarrymessage&", carrying
> "&mudthings[whichplayer][2]
>           else
>               thecarrymessage=thecarrymessage&" and
> "&mudthings[whichplayer][2]
>           end if
>           foundit=1
>      end if
> end for
>
> if foundit=1 then
>      thecarrymessage=thecarmessage&" over "&hisher&" shoulder"
> end if
>
> return thecarrymessage
> end function
>
>
> To be able to do nested weights...am I going to HAVE to put it into a
> sequence, instead of checking each time?
>

No, of course you don't HAVE to do it that one. I was just suggesting a more
efficient method than checking the entire world every time somebody moves
into a room. It was just a bit of optimisation.   The key thing is to have a
way to determine who is carrying what, and you have that already. My
algorithm for calculatin the weight will work in either case.

--
Derek