///
/// The Say command provides the player with the ability to chat with other players within the game world.
/// Players using the Say command can only talk to players that are currently within the same Room.
///
public class CommandSay : 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 CommandSay()
{
Help = new List();
Help.Add("Allows you to Chat with with players around you.");
Help.Add("Note that you can only chat with players that reside within the same Room as yourself.");
Help.Add("Usage: Say Hello everyone!");
}
///
/// Constructor for the class.
///
public void Execute(String command, BaseCharacter player)
{
//Check if the user only said 'Say ' or 'Say' with no message content.
if (command.Length <= 4)
{
//If no message content, print the help for the command to the player.
CommandHelp help = new CommandHelp();
help.Execute("Help Say", player);
return; //nothing to say, don't say anything at all.
}
//Get the message out of the command string.
String message = command.Substring("Say ".Length);
//Query the game world and find what players are within the same location as the chatting player.
var playerQuery =
from p in player.ActiveGame.GetPlayerCollection()
where p.CurrentWorldLocation == player.CurrentWorldLocation
select p;
//Send the message to each player found within our player query.
foreach (var p in playerQuery)
p.Send(player.Name + " says: " + message);
//Print the same message but in a alternate format to the player that sent the message originally.
player.Send("You say: " + message);
}
}