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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 3:15 pm

I'm looking to make a menu/speedwalk system, that when I click on an item from a dropdown menu, it runs to that location, providing I'm in the room called 'Temple Antechamber'. Any ideas?

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

You can speedrun to any room you prefer by setting the room up as a favorite in the mapper. Not quite a pure menu, but it works.

Also, I think Paths could work in this case. Once again, not really a menu, but it does simplfy things.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Here's an idea. Just do what you suggested.

Make a dropdown menu. For each item in the menu, use the destination as the Name, and the commands needed to get there from 'Temple Antechamber' as the Script.

LightBulb
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 11:34 pm

I think you missed the question, is there anyway of capturing the room name and making sure that the start room is 'Temple Antechamber'?

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

I didn't miss the question, you forgot to ask it. If you'll read your own post, you'll see that the only question you asked was, "Any ideas?". Nor could I infer from the rest of your post what, exactly, you wanted ideas about.

Your new question is much clearer. Four ideas come to mind. Actually scripting them would depend on specifics of your MUD.

1. If the room name shows up when you enter a room, write a trigger to catch it and store it in a variable. As part of the script for each menu item, check the variable to make sure you're in the correct room.
#IF (@room = "Temple Antechamber") {speedwalk to destination} {#MESS You're in the wrong room}

2. If you have a working map, you could do the same thing using the map's roomname.
#IF (%roomname() = "Temple Antechamber") {speedwalk to destination} {#MESS You're in the wrong room}

3. If the room name shows up when you "look" at the room, you could have the items store the appropriate destination to a variable and then perform a "look", with a trigger to go to the destination in the variable if the room is "Temple Antechamber".

4. You could just make sure you're in the right room before using the menu. No special script needed.

These are by no means the only possibilities, merely the ones that occured to me.

LightBulb
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:58 pm

Thanks for the help, works fine. Also, I didn't mean to come across as an ass before. Sorry bout that :)