Calling the say verb from a clickable HUD item. in Developer Help

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Oct 27 2003, 4:09 am (Edited on Oct 27 2003, 4:27 am)
I'm trying to make a HUD with say, Who, etc, but I can never seem to get it....
obj
    HUDsay
        icon = 'icons.dmi'
        icon_state = "say"
        layer = MOB_LAYER+10
        screen_loc = "1,1"
        Click()
            usr.Say()

SUPER truncated form of my Say verb...
mob
    verb
        Say(t as text)
            view() << "[usr] says [T]"
#1 Oct 27 2003, 9:37 am
I would not use a verb, personally. I'd use a proc and use input() to get the information.

mob
    proc
        Say(t as text)
            if(!t)
                t = input(src,"What do you want to say?","SAY") as text
            view(src)<<"[src] says [t]"


That aside, I notice a couple of other problems. One is that you have Say(t as text) and then have oview()<<"[usr] says [T]". You have to maintain the case of a variable. Also, I believe that if you directly call a verb, it works exactly like a proc. IE: if you use usr.Say(), you will need to use it as usr.say(t) and pass the text to the verb. That would require an input within your Click() definition.
#2 Oct 27 2003, 10:15 am
In response to sapphiremagus (#1)
I know you have to maintain capitalization of variables, I just added a very basic say verb as an example, the say verb in my game is over 70 lines by itself. o.o Anyways, I found out what the problem is, I forgot I had a CLick() statement elsewhere in my coding, once I changed it to DblClick() for the HUD items, they all worked fine.