Remap ThrowAction to PutAction

Authoring TADS
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Hello TADSies !

I wonder how I would remap “throw x into y” to “put x on y” for example. In my case, I would like to be able to “throw something into the fire”. However, when I try to remap the action, and “throw something into the fire”, a null pointer exception is thrown instead (pun not intended).

The reason seems to be that the ThrowAtAction is meant to be used when throwing something at a distant location / object. In this case, the fire is at the same room as the something. Would I simply require some kind of DistanceConnector to allow “throw” (or “throw at”)? What would that look like?

I hope this makes sense and that this general explanation suffices to be clear and precise. Otherwise, I am happy to share code (however, it uses a german language library and thus may be rather confusing instead of helpful).

Have a great week and thanks to all contributors in advance.

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I suspect something untoward has snuck into your code, because this should be painlessly accomplished. Perhaps you could post code?
Are you using the remapTo macro?

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Yeah. Maybe the syntax of the remapTo is borked?

Here’s a trivial example including a pebble and a shelf, where >THROW PEBBLE AT SHELF is treated as >PUT PEBBLE ON SHELF:

#charset "us-ascii"
#include <adv3.h>
#include <en_us.h>

startRoom: Room 'Void' "This is a featureless void with a shelf. ";
+Fixture, Surface '(wooden) shelf' 'shelf'
        "It's a wooden shelf. "
        iobjFor(ThrowAt) remapTo(PutOn, DirectObject, self)
;
+pebble: Thing 'small round pebble' 'pebble' "A small, round pebble. ";
+me: Person;


versionInfo: GameID;
gameMain: GameMainDef initialPlayerChar = me;

Transcript:

Void
This is a featureless void with a shelf.

You see a pebble here.

>throw pebble at shelf
(first taking the pebble)
Done.

>l
Void
This is a featureless void with a shelf.

On the shelf is a pebble.

>
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