What I'm having trouble with is this. I'm setting up a 'new account creation' type area. Commands 'set id' and 'set pw' are used and the id and pw are stored as variables and assigned to the user so they cout out "joe-user says, "I'm lame." when he talks, etc. I also have it so it takes the 'joe-user' variable and creates a room called 'joe-user-file'. I'm trying to get it so that it will also create an object called 'joe-user-pw', put the file in the corresponding room, and that object if 'looked' at would show the set password.

I also had a bit of trouble with after the password had been set, I wanted the user to be pulled away to a sort of Account Admin Area. I can get them to be transfered there, but since I'm using the create room script in the QDK, I'm not sure how to define the room's alias, 'look' description, etc. I alternate back and forth using the QDK and writing some of the code, whichever proves easier for what I want done. Anyone have any pointers or ideas on this situation?

Here's some of what the code looks like, maybe it will help someone help me. Nothing fancy and some of the things I have it say don't make sense, but it's just messing around at this stage.

define game <Test Game>
asl-version <310>
start <signin>
game info <Created with QDK 3.1 Beta>
startscript msg <--Connection made...>
command <'#say#> msg <#userid# says, "#say#.">
command <shout #shout# !> msg <#userid# shouts, "#shout#!">
command <ask #ask#> msg <#userid# asks, "#ask#?">
command <yell #yell#> msg <#userid# yells, "#yell#!">
end define

define synonyms
end define

define room <signin>
alias <Sign In>
indescription <Sign In>
script {
displaytext <1line>
msg <Using the command SET ID pick a suitable User ID for the out-of-character world.>
}
command <SET ID #userid#> {
create object <#userid#; user-files>
msg <#userid# set as User ID.>
}
command <SET PW #userid-password#> {
create object <#userid#-password; #userid#-file>
msg <The password for #userid# is now #userid-password#.>
displaytext <1line>
create room <#userid#-login>
msg <An account administration area has been created for you and you will now be transferred there.>
displaytext <1line>
msg <Suddenly an indescribable surge of movement takes hold of you whipping you around.>
displaytext <1line>
msg <You abruptly come to a stop. Slightly shaken you peer around your new surroundings.>
displaytext <1line>
goto <#userid#-login>
}
description
end define

I don't know if that helps at all, or confuses the situation. Hoped maybe it would shine some light on things. The room the user is sent to is titled their userid-login(it should be), but I'm curious how to customize the rooms appearance and relevant objects when the room is being created on the fly like that. Might even be shunned upon to paste code here. Sorry if it is.

To define things such as an alias and description for a room you've created on-the-fly in script, you need to set its properties. For example, if you've created a room "newroom", you can give it an alias with the following ASL:

property <newroom; alias=The New Room>

In QDK you need to select the "Change an object's (or room's) property" script command from the Objects category, enter the room name and type the "alias=..." bit in the "Property data" box.

You can find out which properties have special meanings to Quest in the "Changing an Object's behaviour" section of the Quest Help, also available here:

Is there a command that will make a string variable case sensitive when it is defined? I've managed to make quite a few Admin-type commands and it would be nice to be able to have exactly what is defined in the variable(case sensitive, punctuation, etc.) entered as the look for a room or object. I've been using $capfirst(#variablehere#)$ for setting userid's and such, but that really doesn't work too well for room descriptions because they consist of more than one line/sentence. Would I have to do something along the lines of a #line1#, #line2#, etc. set of variables, then have all of those stored in another variable or text block then have that assigned as the room description? I don't know I've been without sleep for a while. I've probably only confused the situation.

property <newroom; look=#somelookdescription#>

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