Re: Prompts

• Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 00:33:37 PST
• From:
  Ahn Jin-su <jsahn@ee.snu.ac.kr>
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> I'm curious - what do you do for things that send text to other people in 
> the room? For example, if you are in a room with a number of people, you 
> would not get a prompt when someone else says something. TinyFugue will 
> handle this, but raw-telnet will just leave all the 'listeners' with a 
> blank line. Or, for example, take a grandfather clock - you wind up the 
> clock, you should get a prompt, the clock then suspends, and every time 
> it 'ticks' (sending out text to the listeners), each listener will need 
> to be prompted again.
> 
  Besides my patch, it needs some db hacks for prompts to work correctly.
For now, my db can hold texts in buffer when I'm in read()ing or suspend()-
ing, and I modified $player:notify() to print a prompt when others send
some text to you. (using fork(), as most of you could think) 

> I use Ian's do_prompt() patch and then do everything else in-db (using a 
> very non-LambdaCore), but I'm curious to see if there's a good way to do 
> this in-server.
> 
  Indeed, my next goal is to handle all about prompts in server, but not
available for now... :(

	-- Ahn

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Ahn, Jin-su    				email:	jsahn@ee.snu.ac.kr
School of Electrical Engineering	LambdaMOO: Deedlit(#103811)
Seoul National University, Korea

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