Help!

Authoring TADS
1

I’m trying to implement this Inform 7 code in TADS 3:

Instead of throwing the meat at the dragon:
        Say "The dragon catches the meat and runs off to eat it.";
        Move the meat into the dragon;
        Move the dragon into nowhere;

or something like that (I don’t really know exactly what code to use in Inform). How do I do this?

PS: nowhere is a room for things that disappear.

2

Try this:

[code]dragon: UntakeableActor
‘dragon’
‘dragon’

iobjFor(ThrowAt)
{
    action()
    {
        if (gDobj == meat)
        {
            "The dragon catches the meat and runs off to eat it. ";
            meat.moveInto(nil);
            dragon.moveIntoForTravel(nil);
            exit;
        }
        else
        {
            inherited();
        }
    }
}

throwHitFallMsg = 'The dragon sniffs at {the dobj/him} and turns its head 
    away scornfully. '

;[/code]

The important part of the code is the “action()” method. The “throwHitFallMsg” gives a message for throwing something other than the meat at the dragon.

I used “moveIntoForTravel” on the dragon, rather than just “moveInto”, because you aren’t supposed to use “moveInto” on Actors.

3

Thanks a lot!

Probably I could find this in the reference but it would have been tedious.