Disposable & unique links suggestion

[juhana]

I've made two additional link types as described here: http://vorple-if.com/outgribe/2011/more-undum-link-types/

Would you be interested in having those link types in the official branch? I'd rather have them in the core system than as an external plugin, but I have no problem providing them as such. I thought I'd ask before integrating them to the core system so I don't have to do the extra work if you think they'd work better as a plugin.

[idmillington]

So sorry I missed these issue reports juhana.

If it is still something you are able and interested in integrating and issuing a pull request, I'd be happy to have them included. I'd be grateful if the documentation was modified to reflect these options too. But if you're really short of time, say so and I'll write the docs.

[jeremy-w]

For anyone reading this now:

• Wayback Machine link
• Summary:
  • disposable links: once a disposably linked situation is visited, all future links are removed. vs once where the current link disappears, but new links can be added later. can also be disposed of programmatically to close off links without their ever having been visited.
  • unique links: handles the case where you want the user to see one link to a place, but they might encounter that one link in several branches. once one unique link is reached, the others stop being links.
  • choice popups: when a choice popup link is clicked, it displays a menu of links.

Note that Vorple 2.5 is the last Vorple to support Undum. Vorple 3 (the current version) is all-in on Inform.