T3:Room

Room is standalone class in TADS 3 which defines a top-level game location.

Summary

Definition (see travel.t):

• class Room: Fixture, BasicLocation, RoomAutoConnector

Template (see en_us.t):

• 'name' 'destname'? "desc"?;

Subclasses:

• DarkRoom is a location without any light of its own.
• FloorlessRoom is a location without any floor, walls, or ceiling.
• OutdoorRoom is an outdoor location. (Rooms, by default, are assumed to be indoors.)
• ShipboardRoom is a location on a ship, where it makes sense to use directions like aft and port.

Related classes:

• NestedRoom is an enterable subsection of a location.
• RoomPart is a wall, floor, ceiling, etc.

New or modified properties:

• actionDobjExamine (coded as dobjFor(Examine))
• brightness
• childInName (see en_us.t)
• childInNameWithOwner (see en_us.t)
• destName
• getDestName
• getExtraScopeItems
• getNominalDropDestination
• getNominalSittingContainer
• getNominalStandingContainer
• getNominalLyingContainer
• getRoomPartLocator
• hideFromAll
• initializeThing
• isTopLevel
• mustMoveObjInto
• roomFloor
• roomParts
• tryMovingObjInto

Example

This simple example is adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. Note that it uses the Room template.

royalBedroom : Room 'Royal bedroom' 'the royal bedroom'
   "You have reached a splendid bedroom. The ceiling is like a great palm-tree,
    with glass leaves of the most costly crystal, and over the center of the floor
    two beds, each resembling a lily, hang from a stem of gold.
    One of the beds is white, the other is red."
   south = hallOfDreams
   out asExit(south)
;

Links

• Room - at TADS 3 Library Reference Manual

Code Compare: Room
ADRIFT 4:	The Room dialog box (Add a Room/Edit Room)
Hugo:	The room class
Inform 6:	The Object class
Inform 7:	The room kind
TADS 2:	The room class
TADS 3:	The Room class

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