From dgd at list.imaginary.com  Wed Apr 30 16:42:00 2003
From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Matt S.)
Date: Wed Apr 30 16:42:00 2003
Subject: [DGD] Cancelling input_to()

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In user.c of the Melville lib there should be a variable for the input 
object and input function (even if you don't use the lib, it should be 
the basic idea) :

object input_obj;	/* object for input_to */
static string input_func; /* function for input_to */

If you can place a function in the user object that clears the object, 
you can safely get out of the input_to (Look at receive_message() ).
Then just call the function in whatever object you want. You might want 
to place security restrictions on this function since it can adversely 
effect things if you rely heavily on input_to's.  And yes, it seems 
possible to do it with a time_out function, but I've never tried it, 
nor the answer given above.
However, I haven't tested this, so I can't be sure.

Matt S.

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 10:32  AM, Mordengaard wrote:

> From: "Lord Lerkista"
>> I put an opening animation for my mud, and i set an input_to()
>> to cancel the animation and don't wait until it finished to enter the
>> mud if i write "q" the animation stops, but if i wait to the animation
> end,
>> it stills waits that "q", finishing the animation i have a menu, so i
> can't
>> use the menu until i write "q", is there a way to cancel the 
>> input_to()
>> of the animation??
>
> Just noticed this question in the archive while I was looking for the
> exact same thing, so I'll just reiterate the question since it didn't 
> get
> a response before - -is- it possible to cancel the input_to state, for
> example with a time_out type of function?
>
> Mordengaard
>
>
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