Zugg Software :: View topic - The name of the current room in a variable

Novice Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Australia

I want to have a variable which contains the name of the room i'm standing in and updates automatically as I move around.

What might make it tricky is I dont use the mapper at all and dont plan on ever using it unless it gets a bit smarter.

The rooms name is always on the first line when you enter the room.
Heres a Sample of what i see:

Baths.
A runic totem is planted solidly in the ground. A sense of balmy languor blankets the area surrounding a large shrine to Valnurana, composed of four statues supporting a dome of softly sparkling crystal. A sleek pony grazes nearby.
You see a single exit leading north (open door).

Maybe i'm totally overlooking a really simple solution but my brain has gone to sleep on this one. [xx(]

Adept Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 222 Location: Chile

Maybe adding an alias to each direction you move
#AL n {north;#TEMP {^(*)} {#VAR currentroom %%1}

Novice Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Australia

I eventually got something to work but your solution didnt work.. I already have macros for each of the directions to clear certain variables when I move so i put the #temp trigger stuff in there but when i move around it wasnt changing the variable ..
I turned the show triggers option on and saw this line:
[^(%*)-> #VAR currentroom 3338h, 2160m, 15590e cex-nw]

thats my prompt and the direction I was moving and what it was doing was creating new class folders with parts of my prompt as a name and a blank current room variable in it

In the end I removed #VAR and just put currentroom=%1 there instead and it works fine

Now the second problem I then ran into is that whenever I moved an invalid direction I get a 'There is no exit in that direction.' message and the temp trigger then stores this in the currentroom variable. Well my brain must have woke up again cause I solved this too and here is my solution:

#KEY KEY8 {n;#temp {^(*)} {oldroom=@currentroom;currentroom=%1;#if (@currentroom="There is no exit in that direction.") {currentroom=@oldroom}}}

by making an oldroom variable to store the previous current room I could then check for 'There is no exit in that direction.' being the current room and restore its previous value.