A text Myst Online project

[Pavitra]

Huzzah! Thank you Belford!

[KathAveara]

I'll be back in England in 17 hours or so. Then I can build my AIs!

[Pavitra]

What's the reasoning behind players.player(foo) and players.name(foo)? The distinction seems subtle and confusing, and I don't see the value of having the distinction.

[Pavitra]

You can now add linking books to the shelves in your personal Tsani-Tsina instance.

[belford]

What's the reasoning behind players.player(foo) and players.name(foo)?

The first is a player object, and the second is a string. They're not interchangeable. Use a player object to get a player properties, and to pass to other players.xxx() functions. The player name is only for printing.

[belford]

You can now set the focus to a code property, although it's not automatic. It would look like:

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setfocus("sign")


...where sign is a code property that calls print() to generate output.

The behavior of print() is not yet as general as I'd like, but it works for this case.

Other changes today:

The unfocus() function is documented.

Invoking a code property can be done either with or without parentheses. That is, the following are equivalent:

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dosomething
dosomething()


(You cannot yet pass arguments to a code property, but I'll get there.)

http://seltani.net/doc/ now refers to the wiki. The wiki is the primary documentation at this point.

I've added a section on books and bookshelves to the wiki. (http://seltani.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Writi ... _bookshelf)

In the build interface, when you enter a text or code property, the syntax is validated before it's saved.

In the build interface, the "create portal to this location" now creates a global link rather than a personal link. (Unless the world is marked solo, of course.)

[Pavitra]

What's the reasoning behind players.player(foo) and players.name(foo)?

The first is a player object, and the second is a string. They're not interchangeable. Use a player object to get a player properties, and to pass to other players.xxx() functions. The player name is only for printing.

players.player()
players.player(player)
Returns the name of the acting player, or the player with the given database key (an ObjectId). If the argument is a player object, this returns it unchanged.

Should this read "Returns the player object of the acting player[...]"?

[belford]

Yes, right. Thanks.

Could you set me to have main-page editing access on the wiki?

[Pavitra]

Done, I think. I don't know of a way for me to test whether I did it correctly.

[KathAveara]

Hey, Belford, could we have for loops enabled, please? I have some code (below) as part of my snake AI that could really do with a for loop.

The current code is:

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if snakepos == 1:
  if foodpos % 2 < 1:
    foodpos -= 1
    snakehunger += 3
elif snakepos == 2:
  if foodpos % 4 < 2:
    foodpos -= 2
    snakehunger += 3
elif snakepos == 3:
  if foodpos % 8 < 4:
    foodpos -= 4
    snakehunger += 3
elif snakepos == 4:
  if foodpos < 8:
    foodpos -= 8
    snakehunger += 3

and with a for loop, I could reduce it to one-quarter the size.