[CF-Devel] rodlike and wandlike items

[pstolarc at theperlguru.com]

Mark Wedel wrote:

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       I'd prefer not to have another item type just to print some slightly different 
     
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     messages.  Such a change may not be quite as simple as you may thing - all code 
     
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     instances that use type of ROD or WAND also need to get updated, not just that 
     
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     small snippet (this is for things like apply, monsters, identify, etc).
     
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       I'd much rather just change that small area of code to do some more generic 
     
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     message.  At least for wands, it now goes 'the <name> goes poof', so that should 
     
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     be generic enough.  Likewise, for rods, it says 'the <name> whines for a while'.
     
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       Perhaps for horns, maybe something like 'no matter how hard you try, you can't 
     
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     blow through the <name>?'  presumably, anything of type horn is something you 
     
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     blow in, so should be generic enough?
     
     
I'm not familiar with the server code, but maybe something like:
"The %s whines for a while, but nothing happens", sItem

Or even more generic:
"You try to use the %s, but nothing happens.", sItem

-Philip
(Work has gotten in the way of things, but, yes, I still plan to finish the
SDL client.)