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The Standard Library for ALAN Interactive Fiction Language
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Honoring 'ex' Attribute when Examining Scenery #99

Closed tajmone closed 3 years ago

tajmone commented 3 years ago

@AnssiR66, I think that the examine VERB should honor an ex attribute of a scenery object, if present.

Even though scenery objects are not important for the game, and are just scenic props, the author should still be allowed to provide a custom description for when these objects are examined, because props can deliver mood to the environment, provide clues of things to come, and even move the story forward, if well crafted.

I think that the examine verb should be tweaked so that it will show the "The [obj] is not important..." message for scenery objects only if their ex attribute is an empty string, and honor the custom description otherwise.

AnssiR66 commented 3 years ago

Yes, that's reasonable. We can make that change for the scenery objects.

tajmone commented 3 years ago

@AnssiR66, I've fixed the behavior of examine for scenery objects that have an ex string defined. The results are good, and they work well with the similar changes to readable objects (#9), and now it's possible to quickly create scenery objects which are also readable.

Check out the test transcript to see how it plays out neatly:

AnssiR66 commented 3 years ago

👍 Works great!