[crossfire] A few random ideas

[Mark Wedel]

Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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       However, more relevantly, I wonder if there is a way to make these 
     
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      complex operations easier than having to mark an object? I'd think 
     
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      that perhaps the client could implement drag and drop for inventory 
     
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      and maybe figure that out on its own (user drags torches to the flint, 
     
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      or vice versa, etc).
     
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      Well, drag & drop would be nice. But you'd need some way to tell the 
     
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      server what to do anyway - or have a command "use item1 on item2" with 
     
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      item identifiers. I didn't want to modify client for my thing in the 
     
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      first place. But indeed, now we could think of doing drag & drop. Only 
     
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      thing is to keep the command usable from the command line - like all 
     
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      other commands.
     
     
  The apply command could certain be extended to have something like a 'on' 
keyword (or similar name).

  So you could do something like 'apply knife on apple' or 'apply flint and 
steel on torch' and so on.

  For low level client communication, the apply command would need to be 
extended or something.  So instead of:

C->S: apply <val>
     Tells the server that I want to apply the object <val>.  Like examine,
     <val> is a text representation of an integer tag.

Have something like:

C->S: apply2 <val1><val2>
     Tells the server that I want to apply the object <val1>.  If <val2> is non 
zero, then <val1> is applied onto <val2>.  if <val2> is zero, then the object is 
applied on its own.  Like examine, the <val>s are a text representation of an 
integer tag.

  For drag on drop purposes, and to be consistent with the text commands, you'd 
drag the object that does the applying to the other (eg, drag the flint and 
steel to the torchs, or the knife to the apple).