///
/// Help command provides information on all the existing game commands, including script based commands.
///
public class CommandHelp : IGameCommand
{
///
/// Used by the Command Engine to allow for overriding any other commands that contain the same name.
/// TODO: Does Overriding Commands still work? This is part of some old code I wrote several years back and might be broke.
///
public Boolean Override { get; set; }
///
/// The name of the command.
/// If Override is set to true, this command will override any other command that contains the same name.
///
public String Name { get; set; }
///
/// A collection of strings that contains helpfull information for this Command.
/// When the user enteres 'Help Exit' the game will print the content of this collection.
/// This is treated like a virtual book, each entry in the collection is printed as a new line.
///
public List Help { get; set; }
///
/// Constructor for the class.
///
public CommandHelp()
{
Help = new List();
Help.Add("Provides help on various topics.");
Help.Add("You may ask for help on any game command.");
Help.Add("Usage: Help");
Help.Add("Usage: Help 'command' where command = a game command");
Help.Add("Example: Help Look");
}
///
/// Constructor for the class.
///
public void Execute(String command, BaseCharacter player)
{
//Check if we have a topic that the player wants help with. If there is nothing after the Help word
//in the command, then the user didn't supply us with a topic.
string topic = command.Substring("Help".Length);
//if the user did not supply us with a topic, we will print every command currently loaded in the engine
//and tell the user how they can access help information regarding that command.
//TODO: Help command should have self contained help topics.
if (topic.Length == 0)
{
player.Send("Available commands: ", false);
//Print each command found within the command engine.
foreach (String cmd in CommandEngine.GetCommands())
{
//We will get a reference to the current command in the iteration
IGameCommand g = CommandEngine.GetCommand(cmd);
//Print the name of the command to the user, place a comma after the command
//so that the next command can be placed afterwards.
player.Send(CommandEngine.GetCommandName(g) + ", ", false);
}
//Let the player know how to use the help command to access help regarding any of the aformentioned commands.
player.Send("");
player.Send("Usage: Help 'Command'");
return;
}
//The player supplied a topic, lets trip out all the white spaces from it caused by the Substring method
else
topic = topic.Trim();
//Get a reference to the command the player wants help with. We must insert the 'Command' string into the topic,
//as all Commands start with the word Command, however the player never sees the word Command. It's internal only.
IGameCommand gc = CommandEngine.GetCommand("Command" + topic);
//Iterate through each entry in the commands help collection and print it to the player.
foreach (String help in gc.Help)
player.Send(help);
}
}