Re: automapper?


Fri, 8 Dec 1995 21:17:02 GMT

Sanjay S Vakil (sanj@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone written an automapper for any of the major interpretters?

: I'm thinking about something that watches for the player object to
: move from room to room, and creates a map of what rooms link to
: others and how, then can display it to the user or developer as
: needed.

I was working on a projec tlike this, but threw it out. The problem is
that the objects, movements, etc. are an implementation of the Zmachine, and
the Zmachine really doesn't know anything at all about player movement,
object manipulation, etc.

You could do it so that it depends on the Inform library, but for me that
was just too much work. Plus the fact that I enjoy drawing maps (I even have
special paper for it -- Some old flowcharting notepads with square boxes all
over it).

Brian

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