change name verb

ID:145560
 
Feb 16 2006, 6:26 am
Code:
mob
     verb    
          Pick_Country(name as text)
               name = input("What Country Are You?") in text
               src.verbs -=/mob/verb/Pick_Country
               world <<"[usr.key] picks [name] as his country"


Problem description:
This here code doesn't work and if it does it doesn't show me...every time you use this verb, it acts like it works, but when you do something it doesn't show your name ...(ie later on use Say...it does thies ... says hello...also it does this when you do the verb :Argorth_of_Dillen picks as his country...see ne country even tho i did input one

Feb 16 2006, 6:31 am
I'm not sure if this is a typo, or if this is your problem, but this line:

name = input("What Country Are You?") in text

Should be:

name = input("What Country Are You?") as text
Feb 16 2006, 6:31 am
 
mob
  verb    
    Name_Country()
      var/naym=input("What do you want to name your country?")as null|text
      if(!naym)return
      verbs-=/mob/verb/Pick_Country
      world<<"[key] picks [naym] as his country."


as text, not in text.
Feb 16 2006, 6:35 am
In response to SuperSaiyanGokuX
that helped...but now it just repeats my name...
Argorth_of_Dillen picks Argorth_of_Dillen as his country
Feb 16 2006, 6:36 am
In response to Dmingmage
Name is a built in mob variable, you have to use something different than name.
Feb 16 2006, 6:44 am
In response to Artemio
 
mob
    verb
        Pick_Color()

            switch(input("Which team do you want to join?","Team")in list("Red","Blue"))

                if("Red")
                    usr.color = "red"

                if("Blue")
                    usr.color = "blue"
            world<<"[country] picks [color]"
            src.verbs-=/mob/verb/Pick_Color
        Say(msg as text)
            world <<"[country] says [msg]"
        NUMBER(msg as text)
            world <<"[usr.country] piece is a [msg]"
        Pick_Country(country as text)
            src.verbs -=/mob/verb/Pick_Country
            world <<"[usr.key] picks [country] as his country"
            usr.name = country


here are all my verbs...(its a board game i use mostly objs so i don't need verbs) now the pick country does what its supposed to, but when i do it, the other ones leave a blank where the country name is supposed to be!
Feb 16 2006, 10:28 am
Take out the argument; that's all you need to do. Just Pick_Country() instead of Pick_Country(name as text)
Feb 16 2006, 11:18 am
use something other than name for showing the country...you may be confusing the compiler
Feb 16 2006, 11:37 am
In response to Budboinker
No, the compiler doesn't get confused from that. At worst, it can confuse the programmer, as you need to do "variable" to access the function's local variable and "src.variable" to access the src's version. Leaving out "src." in this case doesn't make it default to src.
Feb 16 2006, 8:24 pm
In response to Loduwijk
that makes it not let me input anything ...
dmingmage picks as his country
Feb 18 2006, 4:45 pm
In response to Dmingmage
When I said just take that out, I meant just that as opposed to that and what the other suggested. You need to leave in the "name = input()" line.