Disabling and Enabling Room Descriptions (Listed by 'Section') - KVonGit/quest5-stuff GitHub Wiki

There are four, individual attributes on the game during play which effect the order of each of these:

Displayed text Attribute name Default value (integer)
Room Name: autodescription_youarein 1
Exits List: autodescription_youcango 2
Objects List: autodescription_youcansee 3
Description: autodescription_description 4

You can set any one of these to 0 to turn them off during play.

Example:

// First, backup the current setting:
game.autodescription_description_backup = game.autodescription_description
// Now, change the value to 0, turning it off:
game.autodescription_description = 0

That turns off the actual room description (the text you enter under the description of the room).

To turn it back on:

// Check to see if the setting has been backed up.
if (HasAttribute(game, "autodescription_description_backup")){
  // The setting has been backed up, so we use that attribute to reset it.
  game.autodescription_description = game.autodescription_description_backup
}
else {
  // The setting has not been backed up, so we set it to Quest's default value.
  game.autodescription_description = 4
}
// Now, make sure it is on. If it is 0 at this point, set to Quest's default value.
if(autodescription_description = 0){
  //  It is still disabled, so set to Quest's default value.
  game.autodescription_description = 4
}

To turn off the exits list:

// First, backup the current setting:
game.autodescription_youcango_backup = game.autodescription_youcango
// Now, change the value to 0, turning it off:
game.autodescription_youcango = 0

I'd be leery of turning off the objects list, but I'm sure everyone can see how to manipulate it now.

To turn off everything which is automatically generated by Quest (the room name, the objects list, and the exits list, but NOT THE ROOM DESCRIPTIONS YOU HAVE ENTERED FOR ANY ROOMS):

I advise against this. If you disable the automatically generated Objects List, and the player drops something, that object will more than likely be lost forever _unless the Places and Objects pane is visible_.

game.autodescription = false

To turn them back on:

game.autodescription = true
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