Anomaly Jobs Activity Patch

Thenomain

There is a way to change how Anomaly Jobs reacts to inputs. I'm looking for it, so I don't have to re-invent this stone wheel. On the whole it acts like this:

On creating a job, status is 'New'.
When a player uses +myjob/add to it, status changes to 'Staff'
When staff uses +job/mail, status changes to 'Player'
I don't think status changes otherwise.

Where is this patch? Thanks.

Cobalt

Those are the things you want it to do?

Chime

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Those are the things you want it to do?

Hell no. I want it to die.

@Thenomain said:

There is a way to change how Anomaly Jobs reacts to inputs. I'm looking for it, so I don't have to re-invent this stone wheel. On the whole it acts like this:

Added differently on each mush, which is why I recommend storing UNMODIFIED AJ objects and then override objects that inherit from them; your patches would pop right out and be easy to see.

Glitch

I could be remembering this incorrectly, but I want to say that this is only the changing of a parameter in the trig.add or whatever of each of those job commands.

Thenomain

@Chime said:

Added differently on each mush, which is why I recommend storing UNMODIFIED AJ objects and then override objects that inherit from them; your patches would pop right out and be easy to see.

Easy enough.

Now all I need is something to override it with.

Bobotron

@Chime
I must be way too tired.
For some reason it took me about fifteen minutes to understand exactly what you meant by override objects.

Thenomain

/*
Job Database <JD> (%va)
*/

&fn_isstaff %va=isstaff( %0 )

&status_7 %va=STAFF|With Staff
&status_8 %va=PLAYER|With Player

/*
Job Parent Object <JPO> (%vc)
	0: job dbref
	1: enactor (%#)
	2: bucket dbref
	3: contents
*/

&HOOK_MAI %vc=@set %0/[last( sortby( %va/SORTBY_COMMENTS, lattr( %0/COMMENT_* )))]=no_inherit; @if u( %va/fn_isstaff, %1 )={ &STATUS %0=8 }; 
&HOOK_ADD %vc=@if not( u( %va/fn_isstaff, %1 ))={ &STATUS %0=7 };

Apparently.

Thenomain

Warning: Apparently this is now making +job/mail replies unpublished.

Does anyone know why? Thanks.

Alzie

@Thenomain Are the individual comments being set inherit?

Thenomain

You see here the exact changes I've made, and no more.

And no, they are no longer being set Inherit. Now that I know, perhaps I can do it manually. I do deplore having to crawl into the code to find out what is being passed, but if there's a how-to on using hooks, I'd check it out.

(I'm somewhat sure it's somewhere in the help files, but finding one concept in the entirety of a Mu-based help system is on the far end of not fun.)

edit: Now that I'm in the code, I still can't find where the inherit (publish) flag gets set.

Thenomain

Apparently I clobbered the default &HOOK_MAI, causing the publishing it did to stop working. I have some generic complaints about the way this works, but eh.

Original post updated.