How is input entered into the client command window handled

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Apr 3 2005, 7:24 am
I'm trying to study AbyssDragon's parser, but I can't for the life of me find the part of his .dm file where his /Parser is able to receive the text entered into the client command window.

Thanks,

=$= Big J Money =$=
Apr 3 2005, 8:26 am
Okay, I found out it's a built-in proc called client.Command(), but how come that proc isn't referenced anywhere?

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Apr 3 2005, 8:32 am
In response to BigJMoney
There are plenty of things that the reference does a poor job of documenting, or even fails to document completely.

It just has not been done, simple as that. People are lazy. A further explanation I doubt you will get.
Apr 3 2005, 3:43 pm (Edited on Jan 13 2006, 12:45 pm)
In response to BigJMoney
BigJMoney wrote:
Okay, I found out it's a built-in proc called client.Command(), but how come that proc isn't referenced anywhere?


It should be referenced, but I guess that it isn't.

Whenever a player types something into the command line, it's passed on to client.Command() as an argument before being turned into action.

client/Command(text_typed_into_command_line)
    . = ..()


Defining it allows people to log in using telnet!
Apr 3 2005, 8:22 pm
In response to Wizkidd0123
Wizkidd0123 wrote:
Whenever a player types something into the command line, it's passed on to client.Command() as an argument before being turned into action.

That is not completely true. The text a person types is passed to client.Command() only when it fails to find a match for the text in the client's verbs. For example, if I have a verb called Say, and I type:

say "Hello World!"

That will not be passed to client.Command becuase it fulfiled the requirements for a valid verb. If I typed:

getjiggy

without having a getjiggy verb, then that will be passed to client.Commmand().

Defining it allows people to log in using telnet!

That is true.

~X
Apr 4 2005, 10:08 am
In response to BigJMoney
client.Command is referenced only in the BYOND release notes for when it was added. :-)

It's one of those weird things that's incredibly useful but impossible to figure out unless someone tells you about it.
Apr 5 2005, 10:40 am
In response to Wizkidd0123
Please don't mention Telnet, that twisted, older step-child of Byond that belongs in the corner. Go back to the corner, now, Telnet. You can't play with Byond.

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