Clicking on Areas

ID:149912
 
Jan 29 2002, 4:14 am
For some reason my Click() to print out a usr << "Test" code does not work. Is there something that prevents areas from being clicked upon???

LJR
Jan 29 2002, 4:33 am
BYOND normally registers Click() for whichever icon you click on. In most games, you don't even see area icons, since the turfs completely obscure them.

You have two options:
1. You can download the BYOND beta version and use the mouse_opacity var to make it so you can click areas, but not the turfs over them. this would mean all your players need to download the beta too. :/

2. You can make it so that clicking turfs (or other atoms) checks to see which area it is in and calls the area.Click() proc.
Jan 29 2002, 8:50 pm
In response to Shadowdarke

2. You can make it so that clicking turfs (or other atoms) checks to see which area it is in and calls the area.Click() proc.

This one sounds interesting, but I have not idea where to begin to code something like this and how to call to check the area.

LJR
Jan 29 2002, 9:17 pm (Edited on Jan 29 2002, 9:35 pm)
In response to LordJR
I believe Deadron's geography library contains a proc to find the area an atom is located within.

Edit... Well, Deadron's Geography Library seems to have gone away. Basically, it would be something like...

atom/proc
   find_my_area()
      if(isarea(src))
         return src
      var/test_loc = src.loc
      while (!(isarea(test_loc))
         test_loc = test_loc.loc
      return test_loc


flick()


Edit, again... I found the library here. I guess Deadron kicked his own library out of the channel :)