Stop displaying room names?

Authoring TADS
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So I can see this piece of code in the Thing class:

/* if desired, display the room name */ if ((verbose & LookRoomName) != 0) { "<.roomname>"; lookAroundWithinName(actor, illum); "<./roomname>"; }
Just what I want. But how do I express that it isn’t desired?

LookRoomName seems to be a flag in adv3.h:

[code]/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /
/

  • Flags for LOOK AROUND styles
    */

/* show the room name as part of the description */
#define LookRoomName 0x0001[/code]
How do I use this flag? It seems to be implied in comments that I can set gameMain.VerboseMode.isOn to some combination of flags, such as “(LookRoomDesc | LookListSpecials | LookListPortables)”, but doing so in the intro doesn’t seem to turn off the room names.

Alternatively I can just short circuit lookAroundWithinName to return nothing, but that’s overkill. I don’t want to stop rooms having names, I just don’t want them printed out as the player moves around or looks.

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LookRoomName is a bit-flag that is used when calling Actor.lookAround(), Thing.lookAroundPov(), Thing.lookAroundWithin() and maybe others. gameMain.VerboseMode.isOn doesn’t work with bit-flags. It can only be either true or nil.

Try overriding (or modifying, if you’re not subclassing) Thing.lookAroundWithin(actor, pov, verbose):

lookAroundWithin(actor, pov, verbose) { if (verbose) { verbose = (LookRoomDesc | LookListSpecials | LookListPortables); } else { verbose = (LookListSpecials | LookListPortables); } inherited(actor, pov, verbose); }

That should work.

For the statusline, you can play around with Thing.statusName(actor). By default, it prints the room name.

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Yay! Awesome. Thanks.

I’m not too worried about the status line because I’ll be changing that anyway.