TADS version of Inform's backdrop and region

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Hello, I’m new to TADS and I’m porting some code from Inform 7 to TADS 3.

In Inform I have a region called “Outdoors” that includes four rooms.

In that region I have a backdrop called “the Bay”. If the player is in any of the rooms in the Outdoors region and types “x bay” they will get a description of the backdrop.

How would I do this in TADS?

I’ve found the Distant class to be a pretty suitable alternative to Inform’s backdrop. Is there a better one?

And, how do I make my Distant object visible from a collection of rooms?

Thanks for your help!
Mark

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A MultiLoc class combined with Distance perhaps. You can define a class of rooms for which the bay is visible or set them manually.

I recommend you to look at the example of the sun (or fountain) example in “15 MultiLocs and Collectives” within “Learning Tads 3 by Eric Eve”.

By the way, the T3Lite alternative library provides regions out of the box along with some other features found in inform7.

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Also the DistanceConnector class… possibly put the bay in its own room, with all 4 Outdoors DistanceConnected to it?

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