How Do I Delete Items That Were Used to Forge Something

ID:262252
 
Mar 6 2005, 5:46 pm
Code:obj
Forging_Square_
icon = 'turfs.dmi'
icon_state = "tile3"
verb
Forge_()
set src in oview(1)
set category = "Forge"
usr << "Unequip all of your items before starting the process or problems could occur during forging..."
sleep(100)
var/obj/Excalibur = locate(/obj/Excalibur) in usr.contents
var/obj/Fire_Staff = locate(/obj/Fire_Staff) in usr.contents
var/obj/Water_Staff = locate(/obj/Water_Staff) in usr.contents
var/obj/Wooden_Staff = locate(/obj/Wooden_Staff) in usr.contents
if(Excalibur)
if(Fire_Staff)
if(Water_Staff)
if(Wooden_Staff)
usr << "You lay down the Excalibur, giving it the full power of the 3 staffs..The staffs are useless now..."
sleep(50)
usr.contents += new /obj/Eternal_Sword
usr << "You pick up the newly made sword and call it the Eternal Sword!"
del(/obj/Excalibur)
else
usr << "You don't have the proper supplies to forge anything right now..."


I keep getting this error message:

Problem description: runtime error: bad del
proc name: Forge (/obj/Forging_Square_/verb/Forge_)
usr: Mecha Destroyer JD (/mob)
src: Forging Square (/obj/Forging_Square_)
call stack:
Forging Square (/obj/Forging_Square_): Forge ()

Mar 6 2005, 6:35 pm
The problem with this is that you are trying to delete a type path. You see where you made an object reference "Excalibur":

var/obj/Excalibur = locate(/obj/Excalibur) in usr.contents


You should be deleting the object, and since you reference it, you should be using the reference to do so.

This is what you tried to do:

del(/obj/Excalibur)


This is what you should have done:

del(Excalibur)


Understand?

By the way, I dunno what you did to your post, but you should enclose the code in DM tags.
Mar 6 2005, 7:12 pm
In response to Ter13
ok, thanx very much..I still dont get how to put the coding in the lil white area...
Mar 6 2005, 7:51 pm
In response to Mecha Destroyer JD
type:

<DM>
code
</DM>

this exact example looks like this:

code
Mar 7 2005, 12:05 pm
In response to Ter13
 
Ok, thanks alot.