Re: [Tads3] Should items revealed on opening a container be "seen"?

["Mike Roberts" <mjr_@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Eric Eve" <eric.eve@harris-manchester.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've found that things are not marked as seen when they're discovered by 
> opening or looking in a container, which limits the usefulness of the 
> openWhenSeen and closeWhenSeen conditions.
>
> My quick-and-dirty (and not fully tested workaround) is to [modify
> BaseThingContentsLister.showList and DescContentsLister.showList]
This is akin to a problem that cropped up a while back with room 
descriptions involving unlisted objects (such as objects with special 
descriptions) - doing the marking in the lister didn't mark things that 
weren't listed.  The solution we settled on was to move the marking into the 
room's LOOK handler, so that displaying a room description explicitly marks 
everything visible as having been seen.  This can mark too many things as 
seen in some cases, in the sense that it marks everything that's visible to 
the player *character*, even if some of those objects were never mentioned 
to the *player*.  That seems the better side to err on, though.

I think in this case it might be best to take a similar approach.  I'm 
thinking that the EXAMINE, LOOK IN, and OPEN handlers should mark everything 
visible within the object being examined as having been seen.

--Mike

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