Drop all silently

Authoring Inform 7
1

I have a situation where the player has been knocked unconscious. It is silly to think that when they awaken everything is still in their hands.

I have tried various ways of saying “Drop all silently” or “Try to drop all silently” since I don’t want a message to be printed that all was dropped. After a dozen attempts, I (once again) am going to be the lame newbie and ask.

How can I force all items to be dropped without it reporting the action on the screen?

2

“All” is only understood in commands from the player to the game, I think.
As author you need something like:

repeat with foo running through carried things:
	silently try dropping foo.
3

Untested code, so there may be small mistakes, but this should work:

To have the player lose his inventory: repeat with item running through things carried by the player: move item to the location.

Invoke with “have the player lose his inventory”.

(I suspect that Felix’s code will also drop all thing carried by other people?)

4

“now all things carried by the player are in the location” should work. (Not tested.)

You only need “try dropping silently” if you need to respect check/instead limitations on dropping objects. And you probably don’t.

5

Well the first two ideas compiled fine up to trying to invoke “have the player lose his inventory” where Inform complained about verbs.

“…but I can’t find a verb here that I know how to deal with, so I am ignoring this sentence altogether.”

And using “Now all things carried by the player are in the location.” causes 4 problems with the Conversation Framework extension to occur.

Hmmmmm… there has to be away. I am going to keep playing with it, if you have any other ideas I would love to hear them. And if I come up with anything I’ll let you know.

6

I don’t understand how that is possible? This example game compiles perfectly fine on my system:

[code]“Test” by Victor Gijsbers

Test is a room.

The player carries an apple. The player carries a pear.

To have the player lose his inventory:
repeat with item running through things carried by the player:
move item to the location.

Every turn:
have the player lose his inventory.[/code]

7

This is most often caused by using a full stop instead of a semicolon inside a block. You probably have something like this:

When the knockout scene begins:
	say "Some thug hits you in the head and everything goes dark!";
	now the player is in the basement.  [<-- should be a semicolon]
	have the player lose his inventory.
8

I went to look, and no… it wasn’t a period. So I kept trying things. Then I looked a little closer… AHHHHHHHHH!!! :open_mouth:

50 year old eyes… it was a colon. My only excuse is age, and that it is a notebook computer. I think I need a larger screen. :wink:

Thanks again everyone. You all are great for taking the time to help out like you do! I have learned so much reading this forum, even things I have no need for yet… it all helps add to the total sum of knowledge. I owe you all a beer.

9

I always fall into that trap, and I was pretty sure your suspicion was right; but, when I tested it, “things that are carried” only quantified over the things carried by the player (at least in this context); to move other people’s possessions I had to write “things that are carried by someone”. A little surprising, perhaps - at least to me …

10

This, by the way, is not strictly true.
Authors can use “all” in the source text in at least one context: testing if all things of a kind fulfill some condition (as in “if all doors are closed:” etc. etc.).