Programming Question

MJaredSwenson · Post by **MJaredSwenson** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:11 am

Im new to the community, but I played ZZT a long time ago. When one day i was reminiscing about my roots, i remembered this fine game and google'd it to see what would come up. Then you guys came up. Im happy to have found you all.

So i then downloaded it and my favorite games of old, and even went as far as to perform a restoration on an old PC of mine to get some of my projects i was working on in the past to resurrect them.

To cut to the chase: I have a programming question. I remember there was a way to get an object to explode, where it places fakes and whatnot around itself, but it wouldnt place one if it was blocked in that direction.

I played around with the #if blocked direction commands, but cant seem to remember how it was done.

Jotz · Post by **Jotz** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:52 am

#if not blocked n #put n red fake
#if not blocked s #put s red fake
#if not blocked e #put e red fake
#if not blocked w #put w red fake

MJaredSwenson · Post by **MJaredSwenson** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:59 am

Perfect!

Thats what i was looking for. Thankyou Jotz

Howabout another question:

Is there a way for me to build selection menu's based on what flags are set?

For example, in an object i can put up selections (using the ! commands), but it will only display the selections if a player has the flag. Such as the potential is to put up selections for FlagA FlagB and FlagC, and the player only has FlagA and FlagC, so it only displays the selections corresponding to flags A and C.

Am i making any sense here? lol

Post by **Quantum P.** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:12 am

That's possible:

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#end
:touch
It's a control panel of some sort.
#if hammer !h;Smash it with your hammer
#if screwdriver !s;Unscrew the front panel
#if code !c;Enter self-destruct code
#end
:h
You put a small dent in the panel. Nothing
happens.
#end
:s
The panel is held down by Phillips head
screws, and they're in tight. No go.
#end
:c
SYSTEM WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN T-60 SECONDS

You can put just about anything after an #if, even another if statement.

Also, welcome! Don't know if you've seen it yet, but we've got a ZZT wiki that might be worth a look.

MJaredSwenson · Post by **MJaredSwenson** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:37 am

Thankyou, Quantum P. That will do perfectly.

I didnt know about that wiki, so ill check it out.

Again, i appreciate the help.

MJaredSwenson · Post by **MJaredSwenson** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:49 pm

Im going to go ahead and keep any ZZT-OOP question i have to this thread, so as to not continue flooding your boards.

I noticed the rndns direction and a rndne. What's weird is the rndne. You would think it would be a rndew. Can we do a random east/west? Why is it north/east? Just sort of confusing.

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:53 pm

put clockwise before random ns

?cw rndns