At 12:28 PM 8/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I want it to display a msg every minute and 10
>seconds "You animate the corpse. <so much> time left." or "You enchant the
>armor. <so much> time left." etc, but this is difficult to do in the current
>form I have it. Any suggestions?
Sounds like you want an event system to me. I'm not familiar with
most of the event packages out there, but they typically let you associate
a variable with your event structure. This variable can be a pointer to
a structure with as much information as you need. For delayed spell
casting, you could consider a structure such as:
struct delayed_spell_event_info {
int number_of_pulses_left;
struct char_data *ch, *vict;
struct obj_data *tobj;
int spell_num;
};
And a delayed function that, in PSEUDO-code, resembles:
void delayed_spell_event_func(struct delayed_spell_event_info *info)
{
if (--info->number_of_pulses_left) {
sprintf(buf, "There are %d pulses remaining for the spell.\r\n",
info->number_of_pulses_left+1);
send_to_char(buf, info->ch);
/* re-initialize the event with this new structure */
add_event(info, delayed_cast_spell_event_func,
info->number_of_pulses_left);
} else cast_spell(info->ch, info->vict, info->tobj, info->spell_num);
/* finally cast it */
}
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