CommandReport class | report.t[55]

Command report objects. The library uses these to control how the text from a command is displayed. Game code can also use report objects to show and control command results, but this isn't usually necessary; game code can usually simply display messages directly.

Reports are divided into two broad classes: "default" and "full" reports.

A "default" report is one that simply confirms that an action was performed, and provides little additional information. The library uses default reports for simple commands whose full implications should normally be obvious to a player typing such commands: take, drop, put in, and the like. The library's default reports are usually quite terse: "Taken", "Dropped", "Done".

A "full" report is one that gives the player more information than a simple confirmation. These reports typically describe either the changes to the game state caused by a command or surprising side effects of a command. For example, if the command is "push button," and pushing the button opens the door next to the button, a full report would describe the door opening.

Note that a full report is warranted any time a command describes anything beyond a simple confirmation. In our door-opening button example, opening the door by pushing the button always warrants a full report, even if the player has already seen the effects of the button a hundred times before, and even if the button is labeled "push to open door." It doesn't matter whether or not the consequences of the command ought to be obvious to the player; what matters is that the command warrants a report beyond a simple confirmation. Any time a report is more than a simple confirmation, it is a full report, no matter how obvious to the player the effects of the action.

Full reports are further divided into three subcategories by time ordering: "main," "before," and "after." "Before" and "after" reports are ordered before and after (respectively) a main report.

`class CommandReport : object`

Superclass Tree (in declaration order)

`CommandReport`
`object`

Subclass Tree

`CommandReport`
`CommandAnnouncement`
`AmbigObjectAnnouncement`
`CommandSepAnnouncement`
`DefaultObjectAnnouncement`
`ImplicitActionAnnouncement`
`MultiObjectAnnouncement`
`RemappedActionAnnouncement`
`CommandReportMessage`
`CosmeticSpacingCommandReport`
`DefaultCommandReport`
`DefaultDescCommandReport`
`ExtraCommandReport`
`FullCommandReport`
`AfterCommandReport`
`BeforeCommandReport`
`FailCommandReport`
`MainCommandReport`
`QuestionCommandReport`
`ConvBoundaryReport`
`ConvBeginReport`
`ConvEndReport`
`GroupSeparatorMessage`
`InternalSeparatorMessage`
`MarkerReport`
`EndOfDescReport`
`FailCommandMarker`

Global Objects

(none)

Summary of Properties

`action_ isFailure isQuestion iter_`

Summary of Methods

`construct getAction isActionImplicit isActionNestedIn isPartOf setAction`

Properties

`action_` | `report.t[97]`

the action I'm associated with

`isFailure` | `report.t[85]`

Flag: if this property is true, this report indicates a failure. By default, a report does not indicate failure.

`isQuestion` | `report.t[91]`

Flag: if this property is true, this report indicates an interruption for interactive input.

`iter_` | `report.t[94]`

iteration number current when we were added to the transcript

Methods

`construct ( )` | `report.t[56]`

no description available

`getAction ( )` | `report.t[67]`

get/set my action

`isActionImplicit ( )` | `report.t[71]`

check to see if my action is implicit

`isActionNestedIn (other)` | `report.t[74]`

check to see if my action is nested in the other report's action

`isPartOf (report)` | `report.t[104]`

Am I part of the same action as the given report? Returns true if this action is part of the same iteration and part of the same action as the other report.

`setAction (action)` | `report.t[68]`

no description available

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