You missed his point.
He's in a room with a baby drow and has typed in "c fireball drow"
and as his finger moves toward the <enter> key in walks a big bad
drow assassin and he presses the <enter> key before he can stop and
spell hits the assassin instead of the baby.
He wants the new entries into a room to go to the bottom of the
room list instead of the top so he can hit what he was trying to.
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From: "Jason Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:07
Subject: RE: Moving characters into rooms...
> Under stock ROM this wouldn't happen, as the spell is fired off
immediately
> and there's no threading.
>
> I can assume you've changed your code from:
> c 'armor'
> spell execution
> spell lag
>
> to:
> c 'armor'
> spell lag
> spell execution
>
> So, basically when 'spell lag' is occurring another mob enters the room.
>
> Take the target character and record the pointer to something in the
caster
> char_data info:
>
> ch->spell_target = victim;
> (add this as a CHAR_DATA *)
>
> Then when the spell executes, validaate ch->spell_target is legal (it
could
> have been extracted)
> and then use it instead of whatever you are using now.
>
> If I understand the problem correctly, something in this fashion should
> resolve the problem.
>
> Jason
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:04 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Moving characters into rooms...
> >
> >
> > Currently when a monster enters a room it is set at the to of
> > the list. Lets say you were trying to cast a spell at the
> > first monster, and only
> > monster that was in the room, (and you weren't in combat
> > yet), suddenly the
> > same type of monster type comes in, and you cast the spell -
> > it would hit the
> > monster that just came in. What I want to do is make the
> > monster appear under
> > the current monster so you don't target the new one.
> > If you do not understand what I'm talking about I'll try to
> > explain it again. I'm not sure how to do this, but I think
> > its something with char to room, but
> > I do not fully understand it.
> > Thanks
