WorldClass questions


4 Apr 1995 13:40:53 +1000

Greetings, all.

Just a few quick questions for people out there using Dave Baggett's
excellent WorldClass TADS library. (Thanks Dave, and thank you Paul for the
documentation).

- What is the current version of WorldClass released to ftp.gmd.de? I know,
I know, I should just look myself, but links to that site have been
extremely slow for me lately. I'm using 1.1.8, by the way.

- Is the WorldClass mailing list still active? I believe I'm on it, but I
never get any related mail.

- (Sort of related to the first question) Does the latest version support
descriptions of indistinguishable objects, a la TADS 2.2? Eg. "there are
three gold coins here" rather than "There is a gold coin, a gold coin, and a
gold coin here".

- Has anyone else noticed the oversight in 1.1.8 (it may have been fixed in
a more recent version) whereby any actor using the travelto(room) method
will in fact trigger the room's ldesc when they arrive (even if they're
moving to a room far from the player)?

- Is there a pre-existing function, that I've overlooked, that would return
a list of all objects currently visible to an actor? I don't just mean a
listcontents, because I want a list, not output. I thought I'd use
recursivecontents to get a list, and then put each object in the list
through the cansee method to confirm it's visibility to the actor. This
might end up taking a lot of processing time, however, and I I'd really
appreciate any suggestions from people who have implemented something
similar.

Thanks in advance for any replies/followups.

Regards,

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