map drawer (pre-alpha)

[onetimeonly]

Don't know if this is the right forum or not, but anyways.

I made a little coordinate-based map-drawer for those in muds that don't send you any maps.

What it does:
You type in
>mapwin somewindowname
and it creates a miniconsole.
Then you type in
> ms
and it creates and displays a lua table (used as a [28][58] array).
Then you type in
> mapdraw somewindowname 0 0 0 0 0 0
And it draws a neat little thingy on the mini-console!

The mapdraw alias works as follows:

> mapdraw <console_name> <x> <y> <n> <s> <w> <e>
console_name: name of the window you chose
x: coordinate x of the room you want, accepts negative or positive integers
y: coordinate y of the room you want, accepts negative or positive integers
n: does the room have an exit to the north? 1 if yes, 0 if no.
s: does the room have an exit to the south? 1 if yes, 0 if no.
w: does the room have an exit to the west? 1 if yes, 0 if no.
e: does the room have an exit to the east? 1 if yes, 0 if no.

Typing "ms" again will allow you to clear the map.

Finer points:

- It's an ugly hack
- Only n,s,w,e, no fancy directions, no u-d
- All values are fixed
- Lots of ugly debug/misc code left in it
- it's bad up and down
- not gonna update, probably
- forgot to add an option to say if the char is in the room.............

I know there's an automapper feature coming out, just thought I'd share this in the meantime, just for the heck of it.

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[Vadi]

neat