Added a @deluser command and gave it and @boot an option to give a reason for booting/deleting a player
Fixed a bug in @dig that confused exit directions in text
Small bug fixes
/Griatch
The suggestions: footer used in help gave too narrow results, now using apropos-style search instead.
Bug fix of state-help command to make it accept switches.
Added several new example commands and cleaned up old ones to be more user-friendly.
Added protection in @delevent to make it harder to delete system events.
Some small bug fixes and other cleanup.
Object commands used to require re-adding every call in the script parent's __init__ or factory functions, adding the commands to a new command table directly on the object. Since all other attributes can be set up in at_object_creation(), this was both inconsistent and a bit confusing to work with. There is now a method add_commands() directly defined on all objects. It takes the same arguments as the normal add_command()o but use a reserved attribute to create and update a command table on the object. This has the advantange of completely removing the __init__ call in the script parent, all definitions can now be kept in at_object_creation() and are, more importantly, persistent without having to be recreated every call.
- I updated the examine command to show all the commands defined on an object (if any).
- I updated gamesrc/parents/examples/red_button.py considerably using the new command methodology and also using the updated Events.
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Added the permission genperms.admin_nostate so that builders can avoid entering a state when working on a room with a state-changing parent. Superusers have to set the flag ADMIN_NOSTATE on themselves to achieve the same effect (this is necessary since superusers always have all permissions, so they would otherwise never be able to enter states).
/Griatch
The main drawback of multi-word commands are that they can not have any switches; they are intended for in-game use (in states and on objects). Use normal one-word commands for administration and more complex commands with many options.
/Griatch
The help entry database structure has changed! You have to resync or purge
your database or your will get problems!
New features:
* Help entry access now fully controlled by evennia permissions
* Categories for each help entry
* All entries are created dynamically, with a See also: footer calculated
after the current state of the database.
* Indexes and topic list calculated on the fly (alphabetically/after category)
* Added auto-help help entries for all default commands.
* Only shows commands _actually implemented_ - MUX help db moved into 'MUX' category
which is not shown by default.
* More powerful auto-help markup - supports categories and permissions (and inheritance).
* Global on/off switch for auto-help, when entering production
* Auto_help_override switch for selectively activating auto-help when developing
new commands (like the old system).
* Refactored State help system; no more risk of overwriting global help entries.
* State help now defers to main help db when no match found; makes system more transparent.
* State help entries also support categories/permissions (state categories are not
used much though).
Other updates:
* Added more commands to the batch processor
* Many bug-fixes.
/Griatch
are the commands:
entermenu (shows a simple menu system)
enterstate (enters one of six different states with descriptions and hints of usage)
Leave all states with @exit.
/Griatch
from a special-format batchfile. It is intended for large-scale offline world creation (especially things like room descriptions),
where a real text editor is often easier to use than online alternatives. The @batchprocess also has an /interactive mode which allows
stepping through the batch script, allowing to only execute selected entries; e.g. for editing/updating/debugging etc. There is
an example batchfile in the gamesrc/commands/examples directory.
/Griatch
GLOBAL_STATE_TABLE.add_state() before adding commands to it. The state can now be much more configured by including as much or as
little of the normal default commands into it as wanted (so you can now have states which are almost as normal, except some
commands are missing or change their behaviour ... illness or darkness comes to mind). The possibilities here are limitless.
* States now also optionally allow traversing exits as well as using command tables defined on objects.
* States now better handle error messages (so if you try 'look' in a state which does not contain a look command you will no
longer get the 'Huh?' but will be told that the command is not available at the moment).
* All examples in commands/examples/ have been updated to use the new State system. Also added a @test_state function for trying out
the functionality.
* Added hooks at_before_move() and at_after_move(), useful for character based move-restrictions and checks (e.g. movement speed)
* Minor tweaks to the event system; avoiding the counters to go negative should they hit an uncaught traceback.
* Small fixes of typos and minor extra safety checks.
/Griatch
* The startup script (evennia.py) will now take your PYTHONPATH environmental variable into account when starting. This may resolve potential issues with Twisted on Windows with certain combinations of Python.
* The INSTALL file still referred to startup.bat, which is now gone in favor of evennia.py.
Thanks Ari!
- Set up a global cleaner event to clean all @destroyed objects every 30 minutes (makes their dbrefs available).
- Added the @recover command for recovering @destroyed objects up until the point that the cleaner runs and actually destroys them. This can recover @destroyed objects, rooms and exits to the same state as before @destroy. It could easily be made to recover player objects too, but I'm thinking this would be a security issue.
- Added to @dig in order to allow for creating rooms with a particular parent. Also auto-creates exits in each room if desired. The only things that is not implemented is the aliases of the exits, I don't really know how to do that.
- Changed the @create command format to match the @dig (it uses : to mark the parent instead of = now, since MUX' @dig reserve = to the exit list.)
- Added extra security in the example event to guard against the bug that causes the whole scheduler to freak out if the event_function() gives a traceback.
- Changed many instances of type to point to the defines_global.OTYPE instead of giving the integer explicitly.
/Starkiel
- Made it so user #1 is also affected by the on_player_creation() function.
- Added an event folder for custom events, including a working example
- Expanded the example commands and parents to include the changes to how they should be initialized.
- Added an optional ansi scheme (not active by default)
As a side-effect of all of this, logging in more than once acts as behaves now. Also, this will allow things/rooms/exits (IE: not players) or un-logged in players to run commands or be forced to run them via @fo. All of this will bring us more in-line with MUX behavior.
It is important to note that these are currently un-modified MUX2 help files. There are a lot of things that are not applicable, incorrect, or only partially correct. It will be an ongoing project to clean these up.
