I thought about that too. The reason is because I'm not really talking
about transfer, just using it as an example. I'm using it on a function
called mpgtransfer (mprog group transfer), which in turn calls mptransfer
(mprog transfer, no group).
do_mptransfer( ch, buf );
Since mptransfer accepts an argument, I'd have to also rewrite parts of
that function for it to work like that.
Mptransfer itself works exactly as you stated, which in my opinion is
better. I could (and probably eventually should) rewrite mpgtransfer
itself to contain all the work within itself and not dump it on
mptransfer, but even then it wouldn't really fix my original
question. "throw long sword elf", "recite lightning scroll orc", etc
would still be messed up. The quotation thing works wonderfully.
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Dale Kingston wrote:
> ok another question might save you some time.... You already have the
> pointer of the person you want to move? So why spend time and CPU ussage to
> tranlate that into a buffer and then send it off to another function to snag
> the person? And then it might grab the wrong person..... If you already have
> the pointer to the person you want to move why not move them wail your
> their?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anarchangel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 1:00 AM
> Subject: Mob name question
>
>
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > This is going to probably be a newbie question, so for that I
> > apologize. I'd still like some ideas if possible.
> >
> > Here's a typical example.
> >
> > Let's say we want to copy an NPC name and an argument to a buffer.
> >
> > sprintf( buf, "%s %s", victim->name, arg2 );
> >
> > Then we want to:
> >
> > do_transfer( ch, buf );
> >
> > This is all good and well. If the victim name is "Ghoul", and the
> > argument is "3000", it transfers ghoul to 3000. Yay.
> >
> > But what if it's oldstyle smurfette? It then becomes "transfer oldstyle
> > smurfette 3000". That's not how I want it.
> >
> > Sure, I can modify my transfer.. but it's not a question of transfer, it's
> > passing NPC names to generic functions. So here's how I temporarily set
> > it up, just to make sure it works.
> >
> > for ( victim = ch->in_room->people; victim; victim = victim_next )
> > {
> > victim_next = victim->next_in_room;
> > if( is_same_group( who,victim ) )
> > {
> > sprintf( cname, "%s", victim->name );
> > for (i = 0; cname[i] != '\0'; i++)
> > {
> > if(isspace(cname[i]))
> > cname[i] = '\0';
> > }
> >
> > // sprintf( buf, "%s %s", victim->name, arg2 );
> > sprintf( buf, "%s %s", cname, arg2 );
> > log_string( buf );
> > do_mptransfer( ch, buf );
> > }
> > }
> >
> > This is the ugliest, most hackish job EVER. But it does work. oldstyle
> > smurfette gets truncated to just oldstyle. So then it becomes an issue of
> > whether or not there are two oldstyles in the room. This means my
> > temporary hack isn't a final solution either.
> >
> > My question then is, what would be a better way to accomplish this? I
> > would appreciate any input.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jimmy
> >
> >
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