How do I make a room occasionally display messages?
Use SetAction. There is a well-commented example of this in /domains/town/room/shore.c . My functional isn’t working! Functionals are a kind of reference to a function. They won’t work everywhere. For the most part they serve as a pointer, and are used the way a variable would be used. If the place you put the functional wouldn’t make sense for a variable, it wouldn’t make sense for the functional either. For example, SetLong( (: ShowLong 🙂 ); makes sense, because what’s happening is that instead of a string, your argument is a function that returns a string. However, something like this wouldn’t work, if( Cabbages == Kings ) (: eventTalk :); because you’re treating a functional as if it were a function. It isn’t. In a case like this, your line should look like this: if( Cabbages == Kings ) eventTalk(); I’ve read the Creator’s Manual but I still don’t understand mappings and arrays. Yeah, they can be tricky to get a handle on. Let’s suppose you’re going to set up a nautical commerce s
