Try this code to add a 'gettable' gun

First, in the game block be sure to add your item to the 'items' list like so:-

~code~

items

~code~

Then your 'gun' object looks like so:- (defined somewhere in one of the rooms..)

~code~

define object
look
take {
give
hideobject
msg
}
end define

~code~

That'll do it.. the usual problem is forgetting to add the 'gun' to the items list in the game block. :-)

Hope that helps.

Al

Hi Niklius.

Try this code to add a 'gettable' gun

First, in the game block be sure to add your item to the 'items' list like so:-

~code~

items <gun>

~code~

Then your 'gun' object looks like so:- (defined somewhere in one of the rooms..)

~code~

define object <gun>
look <It looks thoroughly deadly.>
take {
give <gun>
hideobject <gun>
msg <You take the gun.>
}
end define

~code~

That'll do it.. the usual problem is forgetting to add the 'gun' to the items list in the game block. :-)

Hope that helps.

Al

I guess from your reply that you are using QDK to set up your game rather than coding by hand with a text editor?

To do the neccessary in QDK:- If as your game stands you can see the object listed in the room, and you've set the 'take' action to hide the object in the current room and give the item to player, ... all you need to do is click on the 'items' icon and add the name of the object to the declared items list.

If it's of any help, I've recently completed and posted a tutorial in coding Quest ASL to my website. This starts with the absolute basics and explains how to write a simple game 'from the ground up', using a text editor like Windows notepad - it is specifically aimed at the 'newbie' and assumes no previous programming knowledge.

The idea of using hand coding in the tutorial is to illustrate just how simple and easy to learn Quest's Adventure Scripting Language is. Picking up a working knowledge of ASL is a 'breeze'. It will really help with game writing to have the know how to do it by hand - even if you primarily use QDK to write, because when things don't quite work, being able to list or print out the code and fix it because you understand how it works is a HUGE advantage!

You might like to take a look at it :-).

Until QDK came along, writing ASL in a text editor was the ONLY way to write for Quest, and as I said in an earlier post, even if you prefer to use QDK to whizz through the basic setup of a game, knowing how to code manually is a BIG plus when it comes to making things work.

You can indeed use code generated by QDK in a text editor, in fact you can (with a bit of care) swop development back and forth between using the Text Editor and QDK as you go along, using whichever method you personally prefer to add features, the two coding methods are complimentary rather than mutually exclusive.

Game setup, addition of objects etc and basic handling of them is nice and slick with QDK, but adding the 'fancy stuff' with ASL is better handled by 'doing it by hand' in my opinion.

http://www.alspages.cwc.net/html/qtips.html

There you go...

In your last post you asked...

<<okay thanx. How can i learn to code asl.? >>

Go to my website (linked in my previous post), and download my ASL tutorial.. :-)

http://www.alspages.cwc.net/html/qtips.html

To the best of my knowledge, at the moment mine is the only ASL tutorial available.. so I can claim it's 'the best available' quite safely... lol

Have fun!