Two TADS actor Q's


Thu, 26 Oct 95 09:22:30 PDT

As part of my ongoing strategy to keep my interest level in my IF project
up, I'm relearning TADS after about a year's absence from it. (First ADV,
then WorldClass.)

Seems I remember just about everything except how to implement actors.
Yes, this is a big "but."

Question 1: How to I make an actor not appear after the room description.
"isListed = nil" should do this, right? Well, it doesn't. I always get
"Robot Man is here." No, there isn't actually a character in my game named
Robot Man. I'm just fooling around.

Question 2: How do I specify an actor's sex in order to be able to use
commands like "look at him"? (This is trivial in WorldClass, I know.)

Thanks for your help.

Matthew