ID:176634
 Dec 25 2002, 2:22 am
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How would you make a clan verb that generates a list that is a clan name for clan creation and adds to the list when the founder adds new players into the clan.
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Alathon wrote:
Drafonis wrote: That helps me with my second question, but not my first question. | |
Drafonis wrote:
That helps me with my second question, but not my first question. Had you been more clear I would've tried both questions :) "How would you make a clan verb that generates a list that is a clan name " is very vague and I can't really find out what your trying to do. Please explain what it is your trying to achieve thoroughly :) Alathon | |
I'll explain what I mean. I want the list name to be the name of the clan. For example, if I made a clan named "Warriors of Darkness", the name of the list would be warriorsofdarkness.
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Why not use a variable eg.
var/name name = "Warriors of Darkness" Then to view the name: usr << "The name of the clan is [name]" A also have a question about lists: How do you output a list? | |
Hazman wrote:
Why not use a variable eg. Sending a list as output directly will result in /list, because it is a type. You need to loop through the contents of the list. There's a few ways to do it, but heres a nice and easy one: for(var/A in list) world << A Another way to do it: for(var/a=1,a<=length(list),a++) world << list[a] That uses list indexes to display an item in the list(item #a of list 'list') The blue book has a lot of nice info on handling lists, as does the guide/reference/faq(?). As for your question Drafonis, there is no way to dynamically name a list like that, because DM needs a variable name to refer something by thats constant throughout the program. Mayby im missunderstanding you, though. What do you want to achieve with the list? Alathon | |
You could sort of name the list (as always, I don't know if this would work but hey, life's just like that):
datum //Datum instead of straight variable so that it can be called by anything. Clan var/name = members var/members = list() //rename members to what you want. //Then do something like proc/Callist(list as text) for(var/A,datum/Clan) // * if(list == A.name) src << "Name of Clan: [A.name]" src << "Members:" for(var/B in list) src << B You might have to modify the FOR statment marked by a commented * though. | |
You'd have to make a new instance of datum/Clan for that to work, and refer to that instance. Remember that the definition is different from the declaration; just because something is defined, doesn't mean it exists. I could define a "blue elephant" as being "a type of elephant that is blue", but that doesn't mean it exists. :-)
Then find the clan you want by looping through all instances of datum/Clan in the world, and choosing the one which has the name (or member) you want to display. Take that clan, output its name and members, and hey presto. | |
Or, alternatively, if you don't want to stupidly waste precious CPU power, you could change each of the clan datum's <code>tag</code> variable, and then use <code>locate(tag)</code> to find the clan. EX: <code>locate("Knights who say \"Nee!\"")</code> would return the clan of the knights who say "nee!", for all your shrubbery-gathering needs.
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You can add to a list just like you do a number or a string:<code> var/list/L = list() L += "Red" L += "Blue" L += "Grey" L += list("Yellow","Purple","Grey") </code>
You can also use the list procedures Add() and Remove():<code> var/list/L = list("Green","Purple") L.Add("Red") L.Remove("Purple") </code>
Alathon