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From: jdyer@indirect.com (Jason Dyer)
Subject: Re: Inform: Stopping objects being listed?
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:42:33 GMT
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Mark Green (ssu94031@reading.ac.uk) wrote:

: description, followed by "There is a figure in the door here", followed by
: the daemon-produced description of the person leaving again!.  Can I suppress
: the object listing here?

Probably you need to use the 'concealed' flag.

:   Likewise; another idea I tried to put it was to enable the player to refer to
: their own limbs individually (eg, examine foot).  All these objects are dropped
: into the player by Initialize, and they work fine.. except that if you run an
: inventory, you're told you're carrying all of them, which would require major
: contortionism!  I have tried overriding Invent, but it doesn't seem to do
: anything (does a routine that returns a blank get regarded as a nonexistant
: routine?)  

Check out, in the example programs on ftp.gmd.de, a_nasal_twinge.

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