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Wanderer Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 57

Is it in any way possible to define an attribute for a room, and to later interract with all rooms that bear that attribute?

Basically what I'm trying to do is set an "environment type" for each room - for example "Grasslands" "Mountain" "Freshwater" - and then to later be able to enter a command such that all rooms of a particular attribute are set to a specific colour.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

If there's not a more appropriate setting (%roomflags()?), you could always make use of the %roomnote() function. Not much of a helpfile on either one, but %roomnote() seems extremely open-ended.

Wanderer Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 57

Actually starting to get a little closer with this. I've determined I can set the roomflag to whatever word describes the particular environment, and can search for the numbers of rooms matching a particular roomflag using:

%mapquery("[userstr] like 'mountains'")

What I'm struggling to do, though, is to use the numbers produced to set the colour of the rooms in question.

I've tried the following:

#noop %roomcol(%mapquery("[userstr] like 'mountains'"),red)

But thusfar with no success.

I suspect the problem results at least in part from the format in which %mapquery returns its result - which basically looks like (348|872|322). If it were possible to add each of these numbers as seperate entries to a string list variable, even that would be a great help.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Use a #forall loop:

#forall %mapquery("[userstr] like 'mountains'") {#call %roomcol(%i, red)}