Emily Short's "Computers" Extension question

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Hi. Does anyone here use Emily Short’s “Computers” extension? I have a question about it.

I’m working on a game where i need to change the player’s property after checking something on his laptop for the first time. I don’t know the action or wording to use!

I’ve tried the following:

[code]instead of printing results-found response:
now the player is informed;
now the player is not busy;
continue the action.

an input handling rule for a search engine (called chosen software):
if the topic understood is a topic listed in the data table of the chosen software:
continue the action;
rule succeeds;
now player is informed;
now player is not busy;
otherwise:
say “[no-records response of the chosen software][paragraph break]”;
rule fails.[/code]

and neither of the above work. The documentation doesn’t quite help me, even though it does tell me the new actions that are made available with it. Anyone know? Thanks!

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One thing I did notice on the second block is that I believe the “continue the action;” and “rule succeeds” both stop processing right there. So when the topic understood is in the table, the first line is continue the action so it never reaches the setting of properties.

Changing that block to the following seems to set the properties properly.

A first input handling rule for a search engine (called chosen software):
	if the topic understood is a topic listed in the data table of chosen software:
		now the player is informed;
		now player is not busy;
		rule succeeds;
	otherwise:
		say "[no-records response of the chosen software][paragraph break]";
		rule fails.
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Thanks, I will try that!