Writing menu interaction on a computer terminal

Authoring Inform 7
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I am a beginner at Inform 7 and the game I am writing has a computer terminal with a menu that presents a list of topics that the player can choose between to read more about. It will look something like this:

MAIN MENU

Enter OBJECT1 to read more about Object1
Enter OBJECT2 to read more about Object2

My first thought was to use some sort of context aware understand statement to make OBJECT1 a command that prints information about Object1 only when standing in this room. Also making things like “type OBJECT1” or “enter OBJECT1” work to print the information.

However I am not really sure how to get understand to work this way or if it is even possible. Is there some other clever way to solve this?

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You should have a look at the extension Computers by Emily Short.

here

3

Thank you, I managed to get something nice and functional together very quickly with that extension. This was my first encounter with extensions as well so I am glad that I was made aware of them.