[Javamud-developers] Re: Project developers

[<da...@ni...>]

Hi!

So... let me start at the beginning :))

First of all the current design was made keeping the Linux filesystem in
mind, meaning that the directory separator char is "/", but in Windows is
not the case.Yes, i know, Java provides the java.io.separatorChar, which overcomes this
inconvenience, but there is another design flaw :)
E.g. When an object or monster is displayed, when they are sent to the
player's object they are encoded using special characters.
    \lib/guild/guard#100 is standing here.

"\" is the character that tells the living.transform_str() that this word
should be transformed to the monster's real name, the
"lib/guild/guard#100" is the ID of the object (consisting of the pathname
and a unique counter - this is how LPMuds are constructing the id's).
So the problem was (i hope) that under windows the path separator was "\",
so the transform_str() function was receiving this kind of strings:
    \lib\guild\guard#100 is standing here.

This way the output was all messed up. I changed that the backslashes in
the ID are converted to slashes and now it seems to work (but i did only
superficial tests - the truth is that i didn't really had the time and
energy to test on windows, since i develop on Linux 99% of the time).
The meaning of the special chars:

  \ID   -  object's short name with small letters, e.g. "dog"
  \\ID  -  object's short name capitalized, e.g. "Dog"
  %ID   -  object's long name with small letters, e.g. "a small puppy"
  %%ID  -  object's long name capitalized, e.g. "A small puppy"

I think we have to rething this design of encoding the object id's in
strings.
Any constructive comments are welcome :))))



regards
   Istvan David

> Great... now, there are no current bugs listed, is there anything in
> particular other than then list of feature requests you would like me
> to work on as well as the file system problems?  It's kinda hard to
> track down "file system problems" without any idea of where to start or
> what the symptoms are.
>
> --
> Chris Adamantidis
> ca...@mo...
>
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 da...@ni... wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have added you to the developers list. You can commit your changes
>> to the CVS now.
>> regards
>>   Istvan