On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Co-Sysop wrote:
>>There's also a "set_title(ch, NULL);" in (I think) do_start() in
>>class.c. If you remove all the set_title()'s though, you might as
>>well also remove the auto-titles from the level list and remove the
>>support code from set_title() (this also means changing do_level()
>>and any other functions that look for the titles).
>
>That specific title is used when you first create your character. i don't
>recommend removing it because then when you create a character it's title
>doesn't get set. I was giving a way to make it so that someone's title
[...]
>just making sure titles don't change when a person levels). I'm not sure
>EXACTLY what kind of an effect removing this line would have (since the
>title wouldn't have been set yet). This isn't directed at you alone (you
>being the poster of the message I am replying to) it is more of a warning
>for all the newbies out there who want titles to stay the same but aren't
>quite sure what needs to be done. But as I have said before, its your mud.
If you wanted to get rid of set_title() altogether, you could just put this
line in do_start() instead of the current way:
GET_TITLE(ch) = "a newbie";
You don't need to malloc(), although note that trying to free their title
after this will cause bad things. For sanity's sake, you should do:
GET_TITLE(ch) = str_dup("a newbie");
A test for GET_TITLE(ch) != NULL would pass, but free()'ing the memory
would still cause a crash in the first example. This way, when there is a
valid pointer, it is a valid free().
Or you could just say: GET_TITLE(ch) = NULL; and hope the code copes.
(As to what I believe Daniel was referring to in removing all reference to
those charts, I did that also in my MUD.)
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