On Wednesday, December 03, 1997 1:35 AM, Ryan Gasper or Steven Arnold
[SMTP:dalamar@CYBERCOM.NET] wrote:
> This has probably been touched upon in the past, but I haven't
> heard anyone mention it. When someone is replying to someone who has
> quit the game, the mud crashes. How do I check to make sure the person is
> still there?
>
Three options:
1) Don't store the pointer to the char that did the tell. Store the idnum
or a unique name
2) Check the descriptor list for a match to the pointer that you have stored.
3) When someone leaves the game, have the game check everyone's
reply pointers and remove references to self.
--Mallory
Neither sweat, nor blood, nor frustration, nor lousy manuals
nor missing parts, nor wrong parts shall keep me from my task.
--Christopher Hicks
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