Language System

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Jun 24 2002, 9:44 am
Time to skip the small talk and chatting, all you gurus out there, and non gurus, whoever you are.(I just read an old thread a bit ago... amazing what arguments are over...)

mob
Login()
//blah blah blah... to here, there are humans, same code, but switch each Elf for Human and remove Elvish
if("Elf")
icon_state = "Elf"
Move(locate(26,7,1))
usr.Languages = list("Common","Elvish")
usr.CurrentSpeak = "Common"

verb
Say(msg as text)
if(usr.CurrentSpeak in src.Languages)
view(6) << "[src] says, '[msg]' in [src.CurrentSpeak]"
else
src << "[usr.name] says something in an unknown tongue..."

Language()
var/LanguageChoice = input("What language do you wish to speak?") in list ("Common","Elvish")
if(LanguageChoice == "Common")
if("Common" in usr.Languages)
usr.CurrentSpeak = "Common"
else
usr << "You can't speak this language!"
if(LanguageChoice == "Elvish")
//same thing with Elvish as Common

var
CurrentSpeak = "Common"
list
Languages = list("Common")

All summed up, my language is understandable by anyone when I speak, I have Common as Human language, and Elvish and Common for Elves. How do I get it so only select people who know Elvish understand it? There has to be something wrong that I'm missing. Thanks.
Jun 24 2002, 10:07 am
Jowy wrote:
verb
Say(msg as text)
if(usr.CurrentSpeak in src.Languages)
view(6) << "[src] says, '[msg]' in [src.CurrentSpeak]"
else
src << "[usr.name] says something in an unknown tongue..."

All summed up, my language is understandable by anyone when I speak, I have Common as Human language, and Elvish and Common for Elves. How do I get it so only select people who know Elvish understand it? There has to be something wrong that I'm missing. Thanks.

The main problem is, in an ordinary Say() verb, src and usr are the same. (You should have "set src=usr" in there.) You only check if a language is accessible once, and if it is, then everybody in view sees it whether they speak it or not. The trick is, you have to make it check through everyone in view, which means you need a loop.
verb
  Say(msg as text)
    set src=usr
    msg=usr.SpamCheck(msg)
    if(!msg) return
    for(var/mob/M in hearers())
      if(usr.CurrentSpeak in M.Languages)
        if(usr.CurrentSpeak==M.Languages[1])
          // hearer's native language
          M << "<B>[usr.name]:</B> [html_encode(msg)]"
        else
          M << "<B>[usr.name]:</B> <I>(in [usr.CurrentSpeak])</I> [html_encode(msg)]"
      else M << "[usr.name] says something in an unknown tongue."

Lummox JR
Jun 24 2002, 10:27 am
In response to Lummox JR
Tankies Lummox, like I said, I was missing something, who knew it would be something not too hard, but not too easy. Well, thanks again.
Jun 24 2002, 10:30 am
In response to Jowy
lol!!!! That was my post, I hope it works for you, My character in my prodject, VALKYRIE, can speak well over 74 languages, and can write 12 languages, I had the same problem, I guess we missed the same thing!