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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:58 pm

With the advent of the new mapper, and the ability to create class folders with special keys that will enable that folder once in a certain zone or room, we desperately need the ability to add the keys in on the command line.

Perhaps it can be set up as one of the options, considering that the current way is:

#CLASS classname state/options

At least, it'd be very handy so that scripts could do this automatically instead of having to type it in. It can get a bit tedious when one has 255 zones to go through, and individual scripts for each one. *sigh*

Charneus

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:51 pm

Good idea, and simple to implement. The syntax will be:

#CLASS classname options

where "options" already could be a string list with the values: "menu", "setdef", "enable", "disable", "remove", "hidden" (from zMUD...enable and disable refer to the enable on init and disable on init options).

To this list of options, the *new* option is called "key" and has the syntax key=value. For example, to create a class with the keyword "zone1" you would do:

#CLASS Zone1 "key=zone1"

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

What if you wanted multiple keys. Would it be:
#CLASS ZoneSwamp "key='zone1|zone2'"

#CLASS ZoneSwamp "key={zone1|zone2}"

#CLASS ZoneSwamp "key=zone1|key=zone2"

or something else?

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:09 pm

Right now, CMUD only supports a single keyword value for a class. Supporting multiple keywords is still on the to-do list. The problem is that the current implementation performs an indexed database scan for any class with a matching keyword field.

However, in the future when this is fixed, you will actually specify multiple keywords for a class separated by a comma and not a | character. So the syntax will be:

#CLASS ZoneSwamp "key=zone1,zone2"

Hoping to have the multiple keyword issue sorted out in the next version, but it gets a bit complicated.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Excellent!