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

[Jesse Welton <jwelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Roberts wrote:
> 
> 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.

If you haven't done so already, you might add a check in this handler
to suppress marking objects as seen if they have suppressAutoSeen = true,
or something like that.  That makes it pretty trivial to correct the
problem in that minority of cases where an object should not be marked.

> 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.

This will hopefully share common code with the LOOK handler for rooms.
A markContentsSeen method, or somesuch?

-Jesse