You should perhaps qualify that to be loading a brand new **XML** map. The issue is that that the format does not (yet?) have a provision to provide a "current" location. A quick and dirty fix for that could be for the map PROVIDER to provide a "currentRoom" or "startRoom" attribute to the <map> element, but that is not appropriate for a MUD with different starting points for different players/classes - or for players already active in the game updating a new map whilst in-game.
IIRC the code to import an XML map file does try to save the current player room and restore that after a map load (or it would if I had let my creative juices swill around the issue whilst coding in that area, I do not recall right now if I digested it or not). On the recovery heuristics I would also offer: * on the basis that rooms were mapped (and allocated room vnums) according to the order in which the beginning player encountered them, it might be valid to pick the lowest extant room number. Though didn't some packages use room "1" as a storage location for data in the roomUserData field? (Of course they could now migrate to the mapUserData field but that isn't going to happen overnight.) OTOH IIRC there is not currently any provision to parse such incoming data in the XML file format anyhow so that is not a big issue - though I cannot recall whether the XML code I did get into the code-base actually puts un-handled XML data in user data parts of the map data or that was only in some prototype code. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mudlet Makers, which is subscribed to Mudlet. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1667899 Title: Pick a room to display when loading brand new map Status in Mudlet: New Bug description: When a player opens Mudlet and download a map for the first time, they are not presented with a map like you'd expect. Instead the mapper says "No map or valid position" (but I just downloaded a map!). Besides getting the map makers to specify a default position in the maps, until one is there, some heuristics could be used: * current GMCP or ATCP room position, if one is available * pick largest area and select the room in the centre (so they at least see something, even if it's not correct and where they are) Any others? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mudlet/+bug/1667899/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mudlet-makers Post to : mudlet-makers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mudlet-makers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
