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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -*- Inform -*- !!!!
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! DOORS An INFORM 6.10 library creating easy-to-code doors
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! By L. Ross Raszewski <rraszews@skipjack.bluecrab.org>
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! According to "The Inform Designer's Manual, 3rd edition" (reprinted
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! (a) give the object the door attribute;
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! (b) set its door_to property to the destination;
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! (c) set its door_dir property to the direction which that would be,
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! (d) make the room's map connection in that direction point to the door
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! Yeah, right. The majority of doors you'll meet in real life are two-sided
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! and anyone who's tried to code up a two-sided door in Inform knows what
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! they're in for. You'll need something like a
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! door_to [; if (location == shrine) return jungle; return shrine;],
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! door_dir [; if (location == shrine) return u_to; return d_to;],
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! Now, I'll agree this isn't all that bad, but I'm sure you've wished it
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! was easier. Many a newbie has died trying to code up something lke this.
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! Observe if you will the Connector class.
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! Suppose you need a door between roomA and roomB, where roomA is to the east
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! Connector door "door"
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! when_open "The door is open",
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! when_closed "The door is closed",
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! Voila! This simple syntax is equivalent to the conventional syntax:
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! door_to [; if (location == roomA) return roomB; return roomA;],
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! door_dir [; if (location == roomB) return e_to; return w_to;],
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! when_open "The door is open",
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! when_closed "The door is closed",
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! found_in roomA roomB;
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! has openable door static;
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! I can hear you now. "What? I save three lousy lines?" Well, yeah, but in
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! a game with a lot of doors, you've saved yourself some syntax. And it
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! certaintly is more intuitive.
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! The only catch, for the sake of economy, is that you have to call the
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! function InitDoors(); in your initialise.
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! The AltMenuing system
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! Center Centers a line of text in either window.
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! Domenu Improved menuing with multiple description lines
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! Altmenu Object oriented menuing system
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! Hints Altmenu hint system
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! Sound The Inform Sound System
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! YesNo pseudo-rhetorical Yes or no questions
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! Date Datekeeping and printing
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! Footnote Autonumbering footnotes
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! Locktest Default key selection
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! Newlock Key-side lock definition
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! Ordinal Ordinal number printing
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! Whatis "What is a" questions
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! Senses Recursive sensory perception
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! Pmove Move objects into the tree as the youngest object
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! Movie Non-interactive cut-scenes
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! Manual inform "instruction manual" system
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! Converse Hit-word based conversation
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! MenuTalk Menu-based Conversation
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! UniCursr Unicursor- Text adventures with the contol simplicity
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! of omnifunction click graphic games (ie. Type "clock"
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! to examine, take, or manipulate the clock)
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! Please write me and tell me what you think.
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if (location==self.sidea) return self.dira;
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if (location==self.sidea) return self.sideb;
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objectloop (j ofclass Connector) {
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objectloop (o in compass) {
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objectloop (o in compass) {
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if ((j provides i) && (j.dirb ~= i)) {
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j.&found_in-->0 = j.sidea;
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j.&found_in-->1 = j.sideb;
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