TADS remap direction verb

Authoring TADS
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directional verbs are killing me. they’re not very well documented since they’re sort of TActions but also sort of IActions and are basically glossed over.

anyway…

I’m using the built-in action ThrowDir and have that working fine.
but I want to remap ‘throw object out’ (the built-in ThrowDir) to ‘throw out object’ (in the sense of throwing something out a window).

I’ve tried lots of combinations, most recent attempt is:

DefineTAction(ThrowOut);
VerbRule(ThrowOut)
    'throw' singleDir dobjList
    : ThrowOutAction
    verbPhrase = ('throw/throwing out (what)')
    getDirection() { return outDirection; }
;

modify Thing 
  dobjFor (ThrowOut)
    remapTo(ThrowDir, self, downDirection);
;

but I keep getting

Runtime error: wrong number of arguments
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I hear ya. Busy tonight but I might be able to look at it in the morning…

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The reason it’s complaining about the number of arguments is, as you’ve probably guessed, because ThrowDir is a funky TAction and not a TIAction.

If I understand what you’re trying to do, what you want is probably something more like:

DefineTAction(ThrowOut);
VerbRule(ThrowOut)
        'throw' 'out' dobjList
        : ThrowOutAction
        verbPhrase = 'throw/throwing out (what)'
;

modify Thing
        dobjFor(ThrowOut)
                remapTo(ThrowDir, self)
;

…which gets you…

>throw out pebble
You should just put it down instead.

…where the failure message is shouldNotThrowAtFloorMsg, generated in this case from Thing.dobjFor(ThrowDir)'s verify() stanza.

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