noob questions

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Oct 10 2004, 5:12 pm (Edited on Oct 11 2004, 12:48 am)
How to choose two random people in the world to give them a var.

How to keep a mob from not moving unless he hits a turf/obj.

How to change the color background of where your text appears to the world.

edit
Also I've taken a look at the side scrolling demo but how would you make it so in a side scroller when you jump on another person you dont go through them.The demo didn't help =/
And I added density=1.

Why doesn't this work
var/const/FAQ = {"<html><b><center><body bgcolor=black><font color=white><u><font size=5><font face=verdana>Inuyasha SS:<br><br>
    <font color=red><font size=3></center></u>:Hello,we are just palying around and fixing things for this game in progress.Thanks.<br>
    <OBJECT data="inuyasha.bmp" type="image/bmp"></html>"}

Oct 11 2004, 2:56 am
Not sure about eveything but how are they going to hit a turf/obj if they cant move
Oct 11 2004, 5:51 am

Why doesn't this work
> var/const/FAQ = {"<html><b><center><body bgcolor=black><font color=white><u><font size=5><font face=verdana>Inuyasha SS:<br><br>
>   <font color=red><font size=3></center></u>:Hello,we are just palying around and fixing things for this game in progress.Thanks.<br>
>   <OBJECT data="inuyasha.bmp" type="image/bmp"></html>"}
>


That needs to be all one line. I don't use it much because of that.
Oct 11 2004, 7:54 am
In response to Wolf01
Wolf01 wrote:
Why doesn't this work
> > var/const/FAQ = {"<html><b><center><body bgcolor=black><font color=white><u><font size=5><font face=verdana>Inuyasha SS:<br><br>
> >     <font color=red><font size=3></center></u>:Hello,we are just palying around and fixing things for this game in progress.Thanks.<br>
> >     <OBJECT data="inuyasha.bmp" type="image/bmp"></html>"}
> >


That needs to be all one line. I don't use it much because of that.

Actually it doesn't need to be all on one line. {" and "} let you easily have a variable that spans multiple lines.

To know why that doesn't work, we have to know exactly how it's not working.
Oct 11 2004, 12:12 pm
In response to Dalga Productions
Err...I meant they can't stop unless they hit a turf.Like pacman for example.
Oct 12 2004, 11:20 am
CodingSkillz2 wrote:
How to choose two random people in the world to give them a var.

You don't. Vars are given to types, not to actual objects.

Of course, it is possible to choose two random people and set a var in each of them to a particular value.

I know this sounds a little pedantic, but terminology actually does matter. Clarity is all-important in programming.

How to keep a mob from not moving...

Uh... what?

How to change the color background of where your text appears to the world.

Look up client/script or style sheets in the reference. I prefer to make a .dms file and include it in my project.

Why doesn't this work
[code snipped]

That's a question nobody can answer until you tell us what "doesn't work" is supposed to mean in this context. With the exception of using a .bmp file as an image in HTML, which is an absolute no-no (use .png, .gif, or .jpg), or for that matter using the evil <object> tag to display an image instead of the correct <img> tag, the statement itself looks all right. Unless I've missed something, it should compile just fine. (It makes more sense to me though to make a separate file for your FAQ and send browse('faq.html') to the client.)

Lummox JR