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Hey ya'll. So I have a scene where I want the player to pawn an item (rare coin). I want the player to try giving a number of items to Pawn Broker, trying to figure out which item he's interested in. I've got the code working great for giving the rare coin to the Pawn Broker and getting the cash in return. The problem is how I can block giving for other items. I've been trying things like:



That doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Doesn't the following work?




Robert Rothman

For the record, when you use square brackets outside of quoted text, it means that the text they contain is a comment. Inform just skips right over them, so it sees as

I'm getting this error message with the new, suggested code:



Hmmmmmm.

Yeah, it's a bit confusing that Inform uses brackets to mean two fairly different things. If you're using syntax highlighting in the IDE and not using a screen reader -- in other words, if different parts of your code are different colors based on what purpose they serve -- you'll see that comments are colored differently from text Inform reads. For me, comments are green and slightly smaller, and I think that's the OSX default.

That is confusing. You wouldn't have any idea how to solve the block giving issue would you? The code he suggested didn't work.

Hm, is it that it needs to say "rare coin" instead of "coin"? If that doesn't work, you can try a syntax closer to your original attempt:

Most of the standard front-ends for I7 include some limited syntax colouring, which makes obvious the distinction between square-brackets in text and square-brackets to comment out code. But of course this doesn't help everyone.

In I7 a more-specific rule always takes precedence over a less-specific one, so you can just do this:

You could try this.



This only allows the player to give the coin to the pawn broker. If you want to add other items, you can say "when the noun is not the rare coin and the noun is not the treasure and ..." and so on for the other items.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks climbingstars - that worked!