Problem with Ability Add

ID:146945
 
Nov 30 2004, 5:46 pm (Edited on Nov 30 2004, 7:30 pm)
Now this is just an example (its just to test out). But anyways. I want a list of obj's in your inventory to popup when you do it. I tried but I am not sure what to do. Theres no errors but when I try the verb out myself. Well noithing happens.

mob
    verb
        Add_Ability()
            set category = "Orders"
            var/abilityadded 
            if(abilityadded == 1)
                usr << "This item has already an ability placed!"
            else
                switch(input("Which type of ability do you want to add to this item?", "Ability Add:",text) in usr.contents in list ("Attack","Cancel")) //This is where I need to have the objs that you are carrying to be used in Ability Add
                    if("Attack")
                        if(usr.abilityadding <= 19)
                            usr << "<font color=red>You need a higher Ability Adding skill!"
                        if(usr.abilityadding >= 20)
                            var/attackadd = input("How much Attack will you add?") as num|null
                            if(attackadd < 0)
                                usr << "You cannot do that!"
                            if(attackadd > 0)
                                usr.random = rand(1,200)
                                if(usr.random == usr.abilityadding * 3)
                                    usr << "You fail to add any abilities to this item, try again!"
                                if(usr.random == usr.abilityadding * 3)
                                    usr << "You added your strength, to the item or weapon!"
                                    usr.str -= 10
                                    usr.abilityadding += 1
                                
                    if("Cancel")
                        usr<<"You decided not to."
                        return


Edit: I fixed the inventory thing. But now, it won't let me add the Attack in.
Nov 30 2004, 7:52 pm
 
switch(input("Which type of ability do you want to add to this item?", "Ability Add:",text) in usr.contents in list ("Attack","Cancel")


This is not a valid statement. I don't know why it didn't give you any compile errors, but it should. My question to you is, why have the players choose an item from their inventory if you never do anything with it? And you know that your setup will allow you to increase the player's Attack forever?

switch(input("Which type of ability do you want to add to this item?", "Ability Add:") in list("Attack","Cancel"))


That would be a proper statement. You can't do two "in list"s in the same input(), only one. Since you never use the items in the player's inventory, I don't see why you're including them here, so I removed the in usr.contents part. Also, your input() ended with the word "text", for some reason. I think you assume that means the input should be text, but the input() doesn't work like that. For lists, there are only two types of input you can accept, "as null | anything". The last position there indicates which item in the list would be the default one highlighted, not the type of choice the input can accept.

switch(input("Choose One", "Choosing", "One") as null|anything in list("One", "Two", "Three", "Four"))


When the input box pops up, it will have a Cancel button on it because of the "as null|anything" part. The item highlighted would be "One", because the last argument in the input() is "One". The rest you seem ok on, so I won't go into it.

I hope that helps.

~X