Creating new Action - Dragging

[Gogyn]

I attempting to create a new action ‘Dragging’ which uses a thing and a direction.

I can create it with just a thing which works fine. Dragging is an action applying to one visible thing
When I try with a thing and a direction I keep getting an error.

[code]Dragging is an action applying to one visible thing and one direction.

Understand “drag [something]” as dragging.[/code]

The error is:‘Dragging is an action applying to one visible thing and one direction’ : but an action can only apply to things or to kinds of value’

What am I missing?

[jacksonmead]

See section 12.7 in the manual (inform7.com/learn/man/doc193.html). In particular:

(Also, note that if you invent an action which needs to apply to directions like “north” or “south”, you need to make this apply to visible things, because the object used inside Inform to represent the idea of “north” can be seen but not touched. So for understanding purposes, “visible thing” is understood as meaning any visible thing or direction: it’s more general than “thing”, not more specific.)

So this should work (briefly tested):Dragging is an action applying to two visible things. Understand "drag [something] [direction]" as dragging.

-Kevin

[matt_weiner (matt w)]

You can also write “Dragging is an action applying to one thing and one visible thing,” as in the pushing it to action.

[zarf (Andrew Plotkin)]

In fact you could just make use of the pushing-it-to action, and have “drag” be a synonym for that.

[Gogyn]

Thanks. That worked.

I was using the format provide in Aarin Reed’s book Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform7.

For some reason that format did not want to work.

Thanks again.