strange problem

[Joey]

this is really messed up. in dq2, i used this code.

if (said("talk","man")) {
  print("hello.");
}

i have this somewhere below the draw(o0); command.
when i play the game and type talk man, it says i do not understand your request. i added the commands in the words.tok file. i dont know whats wrong. any ideas?

[Kon-Tiki]

Check if it's between the f(5)-brackets or not. You've probably placed it a few lines too high.

-Kon-Tiki-

[Joey]

ok ill look. but i placed it below the if (said("examine")) {
command, and the examine command works fine. ill look again though.

[Xqzzy Rcxmcq]

Just wondering, do you have any ("talk","anyword")
arguments in that room's logic? If so, make sure that "talk","man" is ABOVE ("talk","anyword")
 

[Joey]

i dont have that in my logic i dont think. im gonna look at it today and try and see whats wrong.

[Joey]

hmmm, what i noticed is all commands in the logic wont work that have if(said("talk","word")) { or something like that. cause i did the if(said("talk","man")) { and that didnt work, then i also put in if(said("open","door")) { that also didnt work. when i tried each command, it said i do not understand your request. but if i keep it as a work like if(said("open door")) { it works. i dont get it. the words are in the words.tok file. whats wrong with it?

[Nick Sonneveld]

yes but are "open" and "door" separate words in the dictionary?

- Nick

[Joey]

i think so. talk and man are separate words in the words.tok file.

[Joel]

well, if the words weren't in the words.tok file, the logic wouldn't compile.

Did you try putting the line

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reset(input_parsed);
before the if statement that's not working and seeing if that makes a difference? that will at least tell you if there's another said test causing your new one to be ignored.

Also have you tried putting some output to the screen right before the said test (via display, I believe -- definitely don't use print cause if it works you'll have your work cut out for you exiting the game gracefully)? An incrementing variable might be nice (it would let you see that you are actually getting to that code every interpreter cycle).

[Joel]

and, of course, when in doubt, go simple -- do these tests work in other logics? if you have a logic with nothing in it but these said tests, will it work then?

[Joey]

i dont know what it is. whatever
if(said("word","word")) {

command i put in, when i type it in it says i dont understand your request and i tried having 2 below each other. ill mess with it a little later.

[Kon-Tiki]

Check the placement of curly brackets. It's an easy thing to look over, but one wrongly-placed curly bracket can mess up the entire code. I really suggest checking the new.room-curly brackets. It feels like the problem's somewhere around there.

-Kon-Tiki-

[Joey]

ok thanks kon tiki. i will look at that. and tomorrow i am going to try to get a majority of the game finished cause im gonna be home alone all day so it will be nice and quiet and no one will be telling me to get off the computer. so hopefully i wont get too many bugs and will be able to fix any i get.

[Joel]

did you try what I suggested? those things will give you a better idea of what to look for and will hopefully save you some of the tedious time that you'll spend checking the matching of your curly braces.

[Joey]

im gonna everything. im gonna get it fixed today.