another property?

[johnny]

Ok here is the question and here is the code i have but not sure where i would put the code to ask if the item is being used or not.

 

here is the code  1: this.blending = 1;
  2: if (dobjstr == "1")
  3:   player:tell("Please stand by for your drink to be blended.");
  4:   player.location:announce_all("A voice on the blender says please stand by while your drink is being blended.");
  5:   suspend(15);
  6:   OBJ = create($drink, #-1);
  7:   OBJ.name = "A glass of cherry slushy";
  8:   OBJ.aliases = {"cherry", "slushy", "glass"};
  9:   move(OBJ, player);
 10:   player:tell("You now have a cherry slushy.");
 11:   player.location:announce_all(player.name, " is served a cherry slushy.");
 12: elseif (dobjstr == "2")
 13:   player:tell("Please stand by for your drink to be blended.");
 14:   player.location:announce("A voice on the blender says, please stand by while your drink is being blended.");
 15:   suspend(15);
 16:   OBJ = create($drink, #-1);
 17:   OBJ.name = "A glass of grape slushy.";
 18:   OBJ.aliases = {"grape", "glass", "slush"};
 19:   move(OBJ, player);
 20:   player:tell("You now have a grape slushy.");
 21:   player.location:announce("Is served a grape slushy.");
 22: endif
 23: suspend(3);
 24: player.location:announce_all("A voice coming from the blender says, now shutting down.");
_25_ this.blending = 0;

now where would i put the statement like

if (thie.blending == 1)

player:tell("The blender is currently mixing a drink, please hold.")

" endif

 

not sure where i would put that or if that is the right code for it. slowly learning thanks and hpe that helps with me showing code.

 

 

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[Daniel Buczek]

Right at the start before you are creating any drinks. 

Remember: metacode is your friend. Don't know what metacode is? Instead of writing out code write out what you want to have happen. For example, 

If the blender is being used;

Being used message and quit;

Otherwise check for drink name;

Set blender to being used;

Blend appropriate drink;

Set blender to not being used;
End;

Generally you can keep expanding your metacode until each line represents an actual line of code (one thing in other words) and then just... Translate from English to whatever language you are working with.

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[Tyler Littlefield]

John,

That's great improvement with showing the code. One thing though, is you might want to use $recycler:_create or set the owner to something with a quota.

Now, here's what I would do. Add your if statement at the very top, and after you use your player:tell message, use a return statement to halt the function then endif.

So:

if (this.blending)

player:tell("You can't use the blender while someone else is using it!")

return;

endif

Something you might want to note: You don't need ==1, just if(this.blending) anything other than 0 means true, so the if statement will do the same thing; it's just more elegant to use the statement like that.

[Tyler Littlefield]

How is metacode going to answer his question? I think he wanted to find the equiv of the return statement. Metacode won't magically explain that.

[johnny]

Thanks that makes sense.

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