Text won't show up

ID:1669489
 
Aug 30 2014, 6:50 am
Keywords: help, ss13
(See the best response by Ter13.)
Code:
/mob/proc/update_interface()
    var/wasd_mode_activated = "WASD Mode Activated!"
    var/wasd_mode_deactivated = "WASD Mode Deactivated!"
    if(client)
        if(winget(src, "mainwindow.hotkey_toggle", "is-checked") == "true")
            wasd_mode_activated << "Test"
            update_hotkey_mode()
        else
            wasd_mode_deactivated << "Test"
            update_normal_mode()

/mob/proc/update_hotkey_mode()
        // Ignore this
    world << "Test"
    winset(src, null, "mainwindow.macro=hotkeymode hotkey_toggle.is-checked=true mapwindow.map.focus=true input.background-color=#F0F0F0")

/mob/proc/update_normal_mode()
        // Ignore this
    world << "Test"
    winset(src, null, "mainwindow.macro=macro hotkey_toggle.is-checked=false input.focus=true input.background-color=#D3B5B5")


Problem description:

I am trying to get text popped up in the chat to say "WASD Mode activated" when "mainwindow.macro=hotkeymode hotkey_toggle.is-checked=true mapwindow.map.focus=true input.background-color=#F0F0F0" happens but, I put "usr << "WASD Mode activated"" and went in game, pressed TAB and it didn't say it. I can't figure out why it won't.

If what I described doesn't make sense, we can talk about it over the pager.

Aug 30 2014, 7:20 am
Best response
Change these:

wasd_mode_activated << "Test"
wasd_mode_deactivated << "Test"


to this:

world << wasd_mode_activated
world << wasd_mode_deactivated
Aug 30 2014, 7:43 am
I tried using world but, when I press Tab to activate it, nothing pops up in chat saying "WASD Mode activated" and I wouldn't wanna use world anyways because I just want it to show up for the user that does it.
Aug 30 2014, 8:32 am
Do you have your output set to default? If you don't have a default output, the message won't go anywhere.

If you want it to show to usr, use usr << instead of world <<
Aug 30 2014, 4:19 pm
What do you mean by "Do you have your output set to default?".
Aug 30 2014, 4:25 pm
In response to Tranquill
In the interface you can check off "default" for one of your output windows.

Any messages passed without being specified via output() will be sent the the output element which you made default.