Question Can you reduce the frequency of the prompt's output?

cry1004
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01 Sep 2020 08:00 #9336 by cry1004

Can you reduce the frequency of the prompt's output? was created by cry1004

I do not want to display a prompt for the movement of NPC and players, changes in weather, etc.

I want to hide the prompt because the damage message shows the health even during battle.

I only want to show a prompt when the player manually enters something.

I want to display a prompt only when I type a command, say something, or just hit enter.

However, I want to display a prompt once in a while when there is no input for too long.

Which file do I need to modify to make this happen?

Thank you for reading my concerns.

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thomas
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01 Sep 2020 20:03 #9366 by thomas

Replied by thomas on topic Can you reduce the frequency of the prompt's output?

This might not be as easy as you think. However, some things may be done.
The descriptor_data structure has a field called has_prompt, which is manipulated in comm.c:

Code:

    /* Print prompts for other descriptors who had no other output */
    for (d = descriptor_list; d; d = d->next) {
      if (!d->has_prompt) {
	      write_to_descriptor(d->descriptor, make_prompt(d));
	      d->has_prompt = TRUE;
      }
    }

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