[CF-Devel] plugin and events

[Todd Mitchell]

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From: Mark Wedel

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        There is probably some good reasons that global events can not be linked
     
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      local objects.
     
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        First, the number of objects that need to be examined for one of these
     
     events
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      could be prohibitive - even if only 20 objects currently in memory use it,
     
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      objects in memory (thousands, or tens of thousands) would need to get
     
     examined.
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        Second, the objects listening for these events may not be in memory when
     
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      event happens.  IF a map is reset, it is likely in most cases that the
     
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      for the map that is being reset is not in memory.
     
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        Some, like mapenter and mapleave could be perhaps be tied to the
     
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      exits (although, apply can be used for that).  It would perhaps be
     
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      to have plugins based on the map's themselves.
     
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        Eg, be able to say something like '/city/city' have mapenter and
     
     mapleave
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      plugins associated with it.
     
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        As said, problem is these objects may not be in memory at the time of
     
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      event....
     
     
Yes, I didn't want to be able to hook local objects to the global map reset
event, I was thinking that a new local map refresh event could be useful
(and not too prohibitive since it would only have to check objects on that
map).  Then you would not have a problem that objects would not be in memory
since it would only be objects going into memory that could hook the event.
I don't know if this is possible but it sounds (to the non-expert here)
possible... (what is the CFWreadymapname wrapper?)

(BTW - I also noticed one wrapper - GETARCHBYOBJNAME, is this why the plugin
uses the object common name and not the arch name?)

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     In any case, what's the problem with using unique-item files?  you can
     
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      make individual objects unique, and they will persist no matter where they
     
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      dropped.
     
     
no problem with using unique-item files, but for some things you wanted to
do it would be more (dynamic? straightforward? simple?) if there was a local
map refresh hook.  Thinking more of non pickable objects - or intercepting
the arch that is placed on a map (like creatures who are tougher depending
on how many players are on the server when the map is created/refreshed.)

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        Now it would be useful to attach scripts to most unique objects - in
     
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      particular to the pickup and drop - if someone drops a unique item in a
     
     shop
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      (tries to sell it), it goes back to its starting location for example -
     
     pickup
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      could be used for it to store away where it was picked up.
     
     
This is a good idea too, I remember on the Abermud there was a pit where you
dumped quest items and other garbage and got some xp for them - presumably
doing  you could then return some items into circulation or kick off a
refresh(?) of that quest.

Again just an idea.