Possible to determine the name of an action from an action number?

[weaver (Sam Weaver)]

Followup to this post about Inform 7:

Best way to enumerate actions and rules applying to objects

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a project to extract information from a running Inform 7 to be used in an external game engine. I’ve had success with extracting the rooms within a game, things within a game, and their locations in rooms. Next, my goal is to enumerate actions that the player can take. What’s the best way to do this? Some context: I’m not against using I6 code I’m serializing the information into JSON and passing it thru Vorple to a JS frontend, so ideally I’d pri…

I7 generates an I6 table array which holds all possible actions a player can take. It’s formatted like this:

The actions in this array are specified using ## notation, which seems to be automatically converted to an “action number” by Inform 6. Is it possible to determine the name of an action associated with a particular action number at runtime? For example, something like this?

PrintAction(##Inv); ! would print "Inv"

[zarf (Andrew Plotkin)]

It’s the SayActionName() routine.

[weaver (Sam Weaver)]

That I7 generated routine prints a human-readable name for the action, like “taking inventory”… is there a way to get the exact name (keyword?) of the action? Like “Inv” rather than “taking inventory”?

Or perhaps a way to change the “human-readable name” to match the exact name of the action in I7?

[fredrik (Fredrik Ramsberg)]

You talk about Inform 7, but tag the post as Inform 6. Not sure what you want.

For the Inform 6 library, you can do print "The action is ", (DebugAction) ##Inv, ".^"; but it requires DEBUG to be defined.

[weaver (Sam Weaver)]

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks!