Section with asterisks around it I think is the problem, I must be just messing up the code.

define game <Quest Beta Environment>
asl-version <310>
start <login>
game info <Created with QDK 3.1>
background <black>
foreground <white>
description {
set string <indescription; $gettag(#quest.currentroom#;indescription)$>
if ( #indescription# = ) then set string <indescription; You are in> else {
set numeric <len; $lengthof(#indescription#)$>
set numeric <len; %len%>
set string <indescription; $left(#indescription#;%len%)$>
}
msg <[#indescription#]>
msg <#quest.lookdesc#>
if not is <#quest.doorways.dirs#;> then msg <Obvious exits: #quest.doorways.dirs#> else msg <Obvious exits: none>
}
command <warp to #target-room#> {
if property <#target-room#; warp> then {
msg <You focus intently on bending time and space to your will.|n|nSlowly your surroundings change.|n>
goto <#target-room#>
}
else msg <You focus intently but are unable to grasp an image of your destination.>
}
command <make room #new-room#> {
msg <You focus intently and feel that somewhere a new area exists.>
create room <#new-room#>
property <#new-room#; room>
}
command <allow warp to #target-room#> {
property <#target-room#; warp=yes>
msg <You focus intently, untill in the back of your head you feel a large *SNAP*. |n|nA smile passes over your face and you realize you can now warp to your desired locale.>
}
******command <rename room as #room-name#> {
set string <quest.currentroom;indescription; = $ucase(#room-name#)$>
msg <You focus intently, fiddling with the very forces of nature.|n|nYou suddenly feel as if the changes you willed have been completed.>
}*******

set string <#quest.currentroom#;indescription> = $ucase(#room-name#)$

You can make a room easily enough as you have discovered, but you cannot change its actual name once you have done so.

You will have to either settle for changing the alias of the room, (easy and puts the right name on the location bar at the top of the screen) OR re-write so that when you rename a room you actually create a new room with the new name. Personally I'd go with the latter or you could potentially have players trying to give two different rooms the same alias - not a particularly good idea!

The actual 'technical' problem with your code as it stands is that you are creating and setting a string called "quest.currentroom;indescription" to a value - it works but is nonsensical - what you need to do is set the indescription property of a room the name of which is held in the quest.currentroom string variable.

e.g. you need to use

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property <#quest.currentroom#;indescription=$ucase(#new-room#)$>

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That'll do what you expect - but it isn't really a great idea! The following will provide a better visual result;-

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property <#quest.currentroom#;alias = $ucase(#room-name#)$>

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This is still far from ideal... I REALLY urge you to change the concept of your code here!

Al

[A Dark Cavern]
You are in a dark cavern, the walls are made of an icky green substance and the whole area smells like bat urine. You see a bat, a baseball bat and a bloodstained t-ball tee here.
Obvious exits: North, South, East or West

Now, I was using the [A Dark Cavern] section as the name for my rooms and had it set up as that being the indescription. Yeah an alias could work there, but I did it this way, not hard to change at all. The problem is, you can't edit a #quest.currentroom#;indescription and have it be THE ACTUAL ROOM DESCRIPTION, it just gives the room a property called 'indescription' and sets it as whatever the variable has been set at. It works the same way for #quest.currentroom#;alias... it just makes a property called alias and gives it whatever value you assigned it, but never does it read it as a room alias, just a property called alias. I think the way to go is to change the room description script to find if a room has a property e.g. 'title' and display that value, in this case [A Dark Cavern], in the [A Dark Cavern] spot, cutting out the need to call DEFINED room properties, and just calling a regular property of the room.

Hope that makes sense.

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Eh, I think there was some troubles with communication. I'm not trying to change the actual roomname but what is displayed as the roomname to the player.

A typical room I want to go like this(yes it's gemstone style).

(snip....)

Now, I was using the [A Dark Cavern] section as the name for my rooms and had it set up as that being the indescription. Yeah an alias could work there, but I did it this way, not hard to change at all. The problem is, you can't edit a #quest.currentroom#;indescription and have it be THE ACTUAL ROOM DESCRIPTION, it just gives the room a property called 'indescription' and sets it as whatever the variable has been set at.

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Errr... If you want the name given by your player to a pre-existing room to appear on the title bar at the top of the player window you HAVE to set the alias property... that is the way Quest works!

If you want to create a room, name it and give it a description on the fly that is an entirely different operation. You are muddling the two operations up here and that is what is giving you so much trouble.

(The 'indescription' tag is supposed to be used for phrases like 'You are in' or 'You are on', but of course like so much Quest it is perfectly possible to use it for something else.)

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It works the same way for #quest.currentroom#;alias... it just makes a property called alias and gives it whatever value you assigned it, but never does it read it as a room alias, just a property called alias.

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I think the way to go is to change the room description script to find if a room has a property e.g. 'title' and display that value, in this case [A Dark Cavern], in the [A Dark Cavern] spot, cutting out the need to call DEFINED room properties, and just calling a regular property of the room.

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WHOAAAA!! you are making this all WAY too hard, it really is VERY simple to make rooms, name them and give them descriptions on the fly...

Try this code, it only creates a room, lets you name it and provide a description, but it should be pretty obvious how to extend it to allow setting of exits etc.

You can cut n paste this - it will run.

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' Quest 3.1 ASL Demo

define game <Dynamic room demo>
asl-version <310>
game version <1.0>
game author <DaMaDbRiT>
game copyright <� 2002 ...>
game info <Demo>
start <Start>
command <make room #name#> {
create room <#name#>
msg <Type in the decription you require for the #name# room.>
enter <roomdesc>
property <#name#;description=#roomdesc#>
'move the player to the room and look at it to prove it works!
goto <#name#>
clear
exec <look>
}
end define

define room <Start>
look <Description stuff here>
end define

define text <intro>
To make a room called library, type 'make room library' (or whatever)
end define

define text <win>
Enter win text here
end define

define text <lose>
Enter lose text here
end define

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Hope this helps!

If you want Quest's default room presentation, just change the line that sets property 'description' to set property 'look' instead.