Re: Const vs Non-Const.

As an FYI, OLC 2.0 provides command-types such as these, as well as 
auto-qsort when adding/removing commands.

Ammaross Danan
Realms of the Forgotten
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Valnir wrote:
> I am aware of that. I went ahead and added an additional section to my 
> table in the process. A "type" section. This way I can categorize all 
> the commands for various reasons, that being one of them.
> 
> Directions (n,s,w,e,u,d) all got a category of CMD_COMMON, while normal 
> commands got a category of CMD_GENERAL. Imm commands got CMD_IMM, 
> builder Imm commands got CMD_BLD and RP Imm commands got CMD_RP. While 
> CMD_IMM, CMD_BLD, and CMD_RP aren't being used for sorting, it does 
> allow me to sort them for my WizPower list and who has rights to use 
> them. As for the CMD_COMMON. Well, any command that is in that category 
> get's put at the beginning of the sort list, reguardless of their 
> alphabetical category.
> 
> Did I miss anything?
> 
> - Valnir
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wilson" <[email protected]>
> To: "Valnir" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Const vs Non-Const.
> 
> 
> One thing that may be a problem is that if you do strict alphabetic
> substitution, you'll run in to things like if the player types 's' to
> go south, it will map to 'say' instead.
> 
> I think.
> 
> I'm too lazy to look it up right now, though.
> 
> On 2/27/06, Valnir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Richard,
>>
>> That was my impression as well, but I just wanted to check with all of 
>> you
>> guru's out there. I'll wait and see if everyone else confirms your 
>> thought,
>> but I'm pretty sure I'm safe on this one.
>>
>> - Valnir
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard Lindsey" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Valnir" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:23 PM
>> Subject: RE: Const vs Non-Const.
>>
>>
>> I may be wrong here, but I believe the const portion of it just makes it
>> protected during runtime so that the structure itself can't be
>> altered... so yeah, if you wanted to qsort it, you'd have to take that
>> portion of it out... not quite sure of any disadvantages of it
>> personally, as nothing should modify that structure in-game anyway,
>> unless you explicitly code it to do that... But like I said at the
>> beginning, I may be wrong here :D
>>
>> Richard Lindsey.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Valnir [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 2:25 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Const vs Non-Const.
>>
>> I have a question, should be a quick answer for you guys. What, if any,
>> would be the disadvantage of changing my cmd_table from:
>>
>> const struct cmd_type cmd_table [] =
>>
>> to be just:
>>
>> struct cmd_type cmd_table [] =
>>
>> I need to take the "const" out of it so I can use qsort to sort the
>> command
>> table in memory. I just need to know from you guys what kind of headache
>> I
>> might be creating for myself.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Valnir
>>
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