Ackmapper help needed

Posted by Robert Powell on Wed 27 Oct 2004 06:13 AM — 5 posts, 19,874 views.

Robert Powell Australia Wed 27 Oct 2004 06:13 AM #0

I have installed ackmapper and got it working, tho i would like to tweak it further to make it a bit more visual, currently it is displaying as below,


The Temple Of Midgaard                                     -     N     -
-<----------------------------------------------->-        -<-U-(*)--->-
                                                           -     S     -
You are in the southern end of the temple hall in the Temple of Midgaard.
The temple has been constructed from giant marble blocks, eternal in
appearance, and most of the walls are covered by ancient wall paintings
picturing Gods, Giants and peasants.
   Large steps lead down through the grand temple gate, descending the huge
mound upon which the temple is built and ends on the temple square below.


+-----------+
|           |
|           |
|      -    |
|     |     |
|     @     |
|     |     |
|    - -    |
|     |     |
|    - -    |
+-----------+  Exits: north south up.

What i would like to have is the room description along side the right hand side of the map, i did manage to put the call to do_mapper in one place in do_look which game me that result, but the exits were in the wrong place, any help would be great. im currently calling do_mapper from this section of do_look.


if ( arg1[0] == '\0'
           || ( !IS_NPC(ch) && !xIS_SET(ch->act, PLR_BRIEF) ) )
        
	send_to_char( ch->in_room->description, ch );
        do_mapper (ch, arg);

Greven Canada Wed 27 Oct 2004 09:42 PM #1

Looks like you might need to throw a \n\r before your call for the exits.

Robert Powell Australia Thu 28 Oct 2004 06:08 AM #2

that would put the exits on the next line, what i wanted is to have the description on the right hand side the map just like the exits is, so that it loks like this


The Temple Of Midgaard                                     -     N     -
-<----------------------------------------------->-        -<-U-(*)--->-
                                                           -     S     -
+-----------+You are in the southern end of the temple hall
|           |of Midgaard. The temple has been constructed
|           |rom giant marble blocks, eternal in appearance,
|      -    |and most of the walls are covered by ancient 
|     |     |wall paintings picturing Gods, Giants and 
|     @     |peasants. Large steps lead down through the 
|     |     |grand temple gate, descending the huge mound
|    - -    |upon which the temple is built and ends on the
|     |     |temple square below.
|    - -    |
+-----------+  Exits: north south up.

Sorry if i wasnt very clear in what i was wanting to do.

Greven Canada Thu 28 Oct 2004 06:45 AM #3

What you could do is copy do_mapper and modify it to return a string, each line delimited with the \n. Then you create a function that accepts a character, and integer, and 2 strings. You read in the first one ( your map ) one character at a time until you hit the \n. Instead of putting it in the newline, you use one_argument to add one word at a time, check each time that what you have so far this line + the length of this new word will not exceed the integer passed ( the width of your description ). So, now you've hit the width, have the first line of the map preceeded with a length of the description. Do this for each line until you run out of string A ( your map ), then just add the rest of description in. I hope that makes sense...

Robert Powell Australia Thu 28 Oct 2004 08:58 AM #4

Ok i can understand what you mean, but i know that, that would be way way above anything i could do, thought that there might be an easy way to do it, back to the drawing board for me LOL.