On 12/9/05, Torsten Karwoth <agonizer@t-online.de> wrote:
Let's say I want to have a script do something like this:
(pseudo-code)
npc = CreateNPC("Bob");
npc:SetRoom("main");
npc:Say("Hello everybody in the room!");
SLEEP(1000); -- Sleep for one second
npc:Say("Hello again!!");
SLEEP(1000); -- Sleep for another second
npc:Say("I'm being really annoying now!!");
Well, _I_ would implement this as:
npc = CreateNPC("Bob");
npc:SetRoom("main");
AddEvent("BobsFunction", os.time(), { npc, event=1});
where 'AddEvent' would be a function wich would take three arguments:
A function name to call, the time WHEN to call the function, and a
'private' object.
Just an idea - I think it will be much more convinient and flexible to
register a function itself, not its name. Then, you can write
something like:
-- Every ten seconds
mud.onTimer(10, function() mpc:say("Hello") end )
This system can be also extended to handle different events. For example:
mud:onRoomEnter("main", function(who,where) npc:say("Hello, " .. who.name) end )
it can be, for example, extended to handle rooms with masks
mud:onRoomEnter("dungeon_*",
function(who, where)
if where:name != "dungen_saferoom" then
local monster = mud:spawn("monster",where)
monter:attack(who)
end
end
)
And so on... I can't even think of all possibilites with such system :)
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Best regards,
Zigmar