News (was Re: Please no flames)

• Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 09:55:10 PST
• From:
  tom@mvision.com (Tom Ritchford)
• Reply-To:
  tom@mvision.com
• In-Reply-To: <v02120d07ad3e4ea34c39@[130.207.147.214]> (andreas.dieberger@lcc.gatech.edu)

    PMC MOO has an excellent implementation of news
(due to Defender?) which we at Id have stolen, er,
borrowed.

    In this mechanism, you create a $news_item which
is a descendent of $note and edit it as usual.  Then,
you put it into the $news object.  This alerts all the
connected players that a new item has entered the news
database.

    To remove news, you can take it from $news and either
recycle it or put it into another object ($oldnews on PMC
and on Id.)

    I just recently changed $note so that its information
is cached using FUP.  This flows through to $news_items
except I had to make a tiny change to PMC's $news_item
(which used to look at the property .text instead of using
the access function :text)  You can get this from us at Id.

    /t

Tom Ritchford     tom@mvision.com, tom@weirdos.com

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1-800-WEIRDOS           http://www.fly.net/~tom/verge.html

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