You shouldn't be copying and pasting code from tutorials onto your game because it's generally bad practice. You should also be indenting blocks of code via tabbing, not spacing.

http://www.byond.com/developer/articles/start

Peregrinfin wrote:

Once again. I told you I am new. I am using that code as a starting. like it told me to do so.

He means to type it in instead of copying and pasting, because if you copy and paste then often it isn't indented correctly.

It might still be the tabs and spaces, 4 spaces aren't the same thing as one tab though it does look the same...

I've yet to see an instance where indentation errors are caused by anything BUT actual indentation errors. You might want to look at your entire codebase and make sure it's all tabbed correctly because INCONSISTENT indentation means it's "not with the flow" to put it in simple terms. You have to make sure all of your code is indented with either spaces or tabs, not both.

I'll try and explain why you're getting these errors. I'm not sure if this is covered in the DM Guide.

Indentation refers to the placement of text to the right of other text. In programming languages, this is usually used to format your code, making its structure easily understandable. In DM, indentation also tells the computer itself how to run the code*. I'll assume you know what object or proc declarations are. Basically, the compiler sees any code indented under a proc or object as "belonging" to them. This is how it can tell what you expect of it when you use the object or proc.

Because you can indent code in many ways (you can use a space to move it to the right, two spaces, a "tab"), DM can get confused. You are therefore required to have a certain indentation style. An indentation style is basically the what you press on your keyboard to move your code to the right. The indentation style has to be consistent throughout your source code**.

The reason you got an indentation error earlier is because your indentation is not consistent with the rest of the code. Dan's tutorial uses "tabs" to indent its code. Tabs look like blocks of 4 whitespaces, but they are treated in a special way by the compiler. As such, 4 spaces and a tab are not considered to be of the same "style".

The reason you are getting an error now is because your style is not consistent. You'll note you are using 8 spaces to place your code to the right of the 'Hallway' declaration, but Dan is using a tab. The correct way to format your code would be:
<code> Hallway [tab]desc = ... [tab]west = ... [tab]ElysiumControlRoom [tab][tab]desc = ... </code>
Which will look like:

You'll note I used two tabs for the last line. This is because that line sets the description of the 'ElysiumControlRoom' prototype, and not the Hallway's. If you look at a couple of source codes, you'll quickly get the hang of it.

* there are other ways to do this, but indentation is standard.
** or .dm file, or object declaration, I forget which in particular, but in any case it should always be consistent.
*** freaking getting used to BBS HTML equivalent.

Well, that's why you need to read the DM Guide.

You need to tell me which errors and show me the code you're compiling.

Yeah I found that out yesterday. Now im on how to figure out how to get npcs into a room.

you mean putting the rooms coding in its own file? I did that already. But with the loc variable, I dont know what that is. Time to hit the reference book! *EDIT* I looked up the loc var. I need to assign a room id to each room right?

Ok will do.