On Tue, 13 May 2003, Mark Roberts wrote: > Hi Sandi, Palrich, et al.
Gruf. (read: Greetings, mere mortal child) > A couple of years ago, in my ambition to help the ROM community, > I came up with the idea of "programmable strings". > The concept was to have strings that could be programmed. > > That is something like ... sometimes the string would say... > "Its a beautiful day outside" or "Its very dark because a storm is brewing > overhead"... This has been done before, keep reading for more information.. > I know how to do this. I can say this with some finality now. In fact, > I'm reasonably positive that I could complete it in some short time. > But I'm not interested. I know how to do this. I've been able to say this since, according to my help file, mid-June of 1999. I'm not interested either. > So my interest wanned. Indeed, it hasn't been revived. I will be implementing > something like it in my mud... but I wouldn't do it in ROM. > Not that Rom's a bad code base at all! (Since I am writing my own.) ROM blows balls, but it does have it's good sides - a few of them involving simplicity of getting noobs interested in it. [snip] Ladies and gentlemen, let my point your attention towards Quzah's website, specifically the amount of code (known amongst you younglings as "a snippet") called "Quzah's Interactive Descriptions (short: QID): http://www.quzah.org/snips.html Quzah's Interactive Descriptions; Unified Version 01 This is a parser/translator for description strings. It allows for customized descriptions based on the character that is looking at them. Enjoy. - d. -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/
