Ok, change of topic! =]

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May 26 2002, 1:32 pm
I'd like to know if it's possible to limit the amount of characters that a player can input. For example, limit a player to 24 characters for their name, 128 characters when chatting, etc. Probably is, I just haven't seen a thread explaining how to, and never found it in DM's help index.
May 26 2002, 2:15 pm
Yes it is. All you have to do is download Deadrons Character handling library and read ovver it and the demo and you will learn.
May 26 2002, 2:23 pm
Matic293 wrote:
I'd like to know if it's possible to limit the amount of characters that a player can input. For example, limit a player to 24 characters for their name, 128 characters when chatting, etc.

You bet there is! There's two methods of doing this:

1) You can make them choose another name if their name is over 24 characters. (using length())
mob/Login()
   while(!name) //until they have a name...
      var/tempname = input("What's your name?") //ask them their name
      if(length(tempname) > 24) return //if it's too long, ask them again (accomplished with the while() statement)
      else //if it's of acceptable length
         name = tempname //set the name to what they chose
         ..()

2) You can take the first 24 characters of the name, and risk their name being cut off. (using copytext())
mob/Login()
   var/tempname = input("What's your name?") //ask them their name
   name = copytext(tempname,1,25) //make their name the first 25 characters of what they typed in

Personally, I prefer #1, but you can use #2 if you want :)

Your question about limitting chat messages to 128 characters is accomplished with copytext(). All you'd do is make <font face=system>msg = copytext(msg,1,129)</font> to make the message only include the first 128 characters :)

=V
May 26 2002, 8:26 pm
In response to Vortezz
Thanks for your help! So it sounds like DM skipped the abililty to stop the input cursor after a certain amount of characters? That is more to what I was hoping for, but as long as there isn't another player named "Antidisestablishmentarianist", I'll be a happy camper. =,