Renamable verbs? in Developer Help

ID:172804
 
Mar 25 2004, 12:16 pm
Is it possible to change the name of a verb at runtime? If so, could someone enlighten me as to how?
#1 Mar 25 2004, 1:56 pm
Nope.
#2 Mar 25 2004, 2:00 pm
In response to Garthor (#1)
Sure there is...

mob/verb/Myverb()
     set name="My new verb"


You still use the normal path while coding however: src.verbs+=mob/verb/Myverb()
#3 Mar 25 2004, 2:01 pm
In response to Nick231 (#2)
Except that's not at runtime.
#4 Mar 25 2004, 2:15 pm
In response to Foomer (#3)
Wouldn't it be at runtime if a verb pointed to the MyVerb() proc?
#5 Mar 25 2004, 2:17 pm
In response to Foomer (#3)
True... thinking backwards. Will still pretty much do what he wants it to do, just compile-time rather than runtime.
#6 Mar 25 2004, 4:38 pm
In response to Phanes04 (#4)
No.
#7 Mar 25 2004, 6:20 pm
In response to Nick231 (#5)
Nick231 wrote:
True... thinking backwards. Will still pretty much do what he wants it to do, just compile-time rather than runtime.

No, it would not do what he wants and for the reason you stated (it's done at compile time). I wondered this same thing about verbs myself when I started out, and I thought it unfortunate that I could not change their names.

Being able to change a verb's name would be useful since I could do something like this:
mob/verb
    Target(mob/M in view())
        target=M
        ChangeVerbSetting(/mob/verb/Attack,name,"Attack [M.name]")
    Attack()
        M.hp-=1
        if(M.hp<=0)del(M)


Sure, for that example I could just call the attack verb "Attack Target", but there are times at which I had wished I could do something like that example. You could go with objects in a statpanel and use their Click() and have it work similar to a verb, but it would be nice if you could do it to a real verb.
#8 Mar 25 2004, 7:20 pm
In response to Loduwijk (#7)
There currently is a system in place for renaming verbs dynamically, but it doesn't work. It'll be fixed for an upcoming version.

It looks like this:

mob/verb/old_verb()
    usr << "blah"
mob/verb/add_new_verb(Name as text)
    verbs += new /mob/verb/old_verb(src,Name)