emotes..kinda..

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Feb 6 2006, 10:28 am
I was wondering how I could make it so that if I typed:
/me waves
it comes out as
JMT waves

I don't like the idea of making a seperate verb for this kinda thing though =\ can anyone help me out here? Pwease? ^_^
Feb 6 2006, 10:47 am
Uh, no idea what you're talking about not wanting to use a seperate verb.

Do it just like say.
Feb 6 2006, 12:24 pm
In response to Artemio
So what you're saying is that you want to convert "/me" into the usr's name? Or do you want it to convert it to "JMT"?
Feb 6 2006, 12:51 pm
In response to KirbyRules
copy the say proc, and name it me. if someone types /me the command line will do the me proc instead of say
Feb 6 2006, 1:23 pm
By not making a seperate verb you mean you want to use say? If so, just use copytext to check the first few characters and then chop them off.
mob/verb/say(message as text)
    var/prefix = copytext(message, 1, 5)
    if(prefix == "/me ")
        message = copytext(message, 5, 0)
        world  <<  "<b>[name]</b> [message]"
        return
    world  <<  "<b>[name]: </b> [message]"
Feb 7 2006, 4:26 am
In response to Loduwijk
that is what i meant, thanks. i went with making a hidden verb called "me" though ^^;

sorry for the confusion everyone =\
Feb 7 2006, 5:56 am
In response to Loduwijk
copytext(msg,1,5) is gonna fail when the message is shorter than 4 characters. Best to find it like so:
if(findText(msg, "/me ", 1, 5) == 1)
  ...

Lummox JR
Feb 7 2006, 10:13 am
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
copytext(msg,1,5) is gonna fail when the message is shorter than 4 characters.

It doesn't fail. Rather, it just returns the entire string passed to it without modification. Therefor, my example still works fine.

If it is less than 4 characters, then it is not "/me " with more text following and the 'prefix == "me"' part will be false and continue on to the normal version of say as appropriate.
Feb 7 2006, 1:50 pm
In response to Loduwijk
I learned something with this:

I changed my say and world-say verbs:

mob/verb/

    Say(msg as text)
        set desc = "Talk to only the people on your screen."
        if(usr.Jailed != 1)
            if(findText(msg, "/emote ", 1, 5) == 1)
                message = copytext(msg, 5, 0)
                view()  <<  "*<b>[name]</b> [message]*"
                return
        else
            return
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    World_Say(msg as text)
        set desc = "Talk to the entire world."
        if(usr.Jailed != 1)
            if(findText(msg, "/emote ", 1, 5) == 1)
                message = copytext(msg, 5, 0)
                world << "*<big>[usr.name] [message]*"
                return
        else
            return


Now if I type "/emote a-splodes" it will print "*KirbyRules a-splodes*" instead of "KirbyRules says: a-splodes"