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ID:165015 Mar 10 2007, 4:28 am
Jazzyfizzle	mob/Login New() world << "[usr] Has logged in for the first time!!!" mob Login() world << "[usr] Has enterd the game!" mob Logout() world << "[usr] Has logged out!" My map selection screen does'nt appear and my screen is black... What's wrong?

Mar 10 2007, 4:49 am
DarkD3vil666	For the mob/Login(), you need a location to place the mob into. Put src.loc=locate(1,1,1) after you tell the world an src has logged in. Make sure to chnage all the usr to src since the mob is the src wgich is you. As for the mob/Logout(), your missing a del(src). Without this, even when people leave your game, their bodies will still be there.

Mar 10 2007, 4:54 am In response to DarkD3vil666
Jazzyfizzle	Yes but I have a map selection screen I need them to display it as well XD

Mar 10 2007, 5:16 am In response to Jazzyfizzle
DarkD3vil666	You can just change my coordinates to whatever you want. As I understand, you want it so when you login, the players can choose their map. You can just let them choose the map and the for example if the map is a forest, make them go to 45,67,1, if it's a canyon 21,56,3 and so on. Just change it to were you want them to appear.

Mar 10 2007, 5:21 am In response to DarkD3vil666
Jazzyfizzle	Ummm...I dont want to send them there my game is a saw game (Based on the movie called saw) and there are several maps I want them to chose from I dont want to send them to a spacific location I want them to chose what they want =/

Mar 10 2007, 5:26 am (Edited on Mar 10 2007, 5:55 am)

Zagreus

Dude, the relevant piece of code to share is your map selection screen, not your login messages.

We can only speculate what the problem is based on the above, because we don't see how you're calling the map selection upon login.

My speculation:
You're not putting a ..() in your mob/Login(), yet you've got another definition of login somewhere else that displays the map selection window.

mob
Login()
world << "[usr] Has enterd the game!"
..()

Basically ..() tells the proc to do whatever else you've told it to do elsewhere. Without it, it just prints that string and ends.

Also, when you have code that doesn't work the way you want it to, and you're posting on the forums asking why it's not working and what not:

Code Problems not Developer How-To. :)

Mar 10 2007, 6:39 am

In response to Jazzyfizzle

DarkD3vil666

If you read carefully, that's exactly what I told you. You want the players to choose from different maps with diferent activities in them right? So here would be something I would do...

mob
    Login()
        world<<"[src] has joined the game."
        icon='player.dmi'
        var/mapchoose=input("What map do you wish to play on?")in list ("Map 1","Map 2")
        if(mapchoose == "Map 1")
            src.loc=locate(1,1,1)
        if(mapchoose == "Map 2")
            src.loc=locate(1,1,2)//the last number stand for the level of your map, the z coordinate
        else
            src.Logout()
    Logout()
        world<<"[src] has exited the game."
        del(src)

Mar 10 2007, 6:41 am In response to DarkD3vil666
Jazzyfizzle	Thx

Mar 10 2007, 7:54 am In response to Jazzyfizzle
Kaioken	10$ says he just copy-pasted DarkD3vil666's code. <small>This is getting old, but so is Jazzy's copying</small>

Mar 10 2007, 8:55 am In response to Kaioken
Jazzyfizzle	Dude I coded somthing myself and made a mistake is that so bad? lol I thought this was to help people not to make fun of people who mess up? Man get a life -_-

Mar 10 2007, 5:39 pm In response to Jazzyfizzle
Kaioken	I never regarded you messing up. I regarded you keeping on copying posted code. :)

Mar 10 2007, 5:59 pm In response to Kaioken
Jazzyfizzle	I had a problem with something and I needed help... Belive it or not I look at the code and make sence of what I did wrong so I can become a better coder... I ask help so I can learn from my mistakes not for some idiot's to say I just copy paste and leave it... Thats how I learn and Im not changeing my style of learning So back off...

Mar 11 2007, 7:25 am

In response to DarkD3vil666

Pyro_dragons

DarkD3vil666 wrote:

If you read carefully, that's exactly what I told you. You want the players to choose from different maps with diferent activities in them right? So here would be something I would do...

> mob
>   Login()
>       world<<"[src] has joined the game."
>       icon='player.dmi'
>       var/mapchoose=input("What map do you wish to play on?")in list ("Map 1","Map 2")
>       if(mapchoose == "Map 1")
>           src.loc=locate(1,1,1)
>       if(mapchoose == "Map 2")
>           src.loc=locate(1,1,2)//the last number stand for the level of your map, the z coordinate
>       else
>           src.Logout()
>   Logout()
>       world<<"[src] has exited the game."
>       del(src)
>

You forgot the ..() in both Login() and Logout()

Mar 11 2007, 7:46 am In response to Pyro_dragons
DarkD3vil666	I'm not fond with the ..(). What does it do exactly? I never use it and everything works just fine.

Mar 11 2007, 10:59 am

In response to DarkD3vil666

Zagreus

http://developer.byond.com/forum/ index.cgi?action=message_read&id=530497&forum=8&view=0

I already explained (poorly) there.

The reference entry for .. does a better job of explaining it I think. :)

You won't have problems if you don't use ..() as long as you don't have the same proc defined in multiple locations, or overwrite a built-in proc in a manner that essentially breaks it. Doing nothing more than outputting a string in a proc that normally logs players in without defining the rest of the Login proceedure, you need to call the parent.

Mar 11 2007, 11:00 am

In response to Pyro_dragons

Kaioken

Get this straight - ..() isn't always needed. Perhaps you don't even know what it does either.
It is unneeded in Login() if you're setting the loc yourself (apparently client.statobj is set anyway regardless of calling ..() or not). It is unneeded in Logout() since it doesn't even have a default action.

That is, to say, of course, if you don't have any parent overrides - but thats specifically project-wise and doesn't matter for random independent forum posted snippets.

Mar 11 2007, 11:04 am In response to DarkD3vil666
Kaioken	Read its reference entry. And use the forum search, people have explained this before (yes, I noticed Zagerus had on this topic, but he had done so quite basically and vaguely). Theres also info about it in the DM Guide, of course.