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Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 6 Location: USA

Is there any way to access the details(fields) of a room(record) in a map as a normal database? They look similar in format but I think there are still some differences between them. When I tried loading the map into a db, expecting it to display much like the spreadsheet view, the program did not recognize the map as a database.

#MAPQUERY provides some limited access to the map. But if I want to match a specific field, such as the room description and return it as a field variable much like in the database, but I do not want it to affect the user interface, is there any way?

Wanderer Joined: 08 Feb 2001 Posts: 89 Location: USA

The map database in 6.40 is just a MS Access database. You can use Access to edit it, as well as MS's ODBC driver.

I'm not sure, however, if Zugg is supporting this kind of manipulation of the map file since it could lead to a plethora problems that are not at all related to his product. Fortunately, the DB is reasonally well self-documented -- that is, the tables and columns all have names that are reasonable descriptive.

Myself, I'm creating an online viewer of zMud databases. I've got the database stuff working just fine, so that might encourage you in your attempts to work with it and do what you're looking to do.

Take care,

Wil

Wil Hunt

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Yes, you can manipulate each record in the database as you want. It's true that this could lead to some weird effects on the map, but if you at least somewhat know what you are doing it will be fine. Of course, this is a more advanced use and it's not for everyone and most of the changes you'd want to make to a room are available through the mapper's functions anyway.

Kjata