• Inserting scrolls into spellbooks

Posted: **Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:14 pm**

I have rescripted the spell casting to use a slightly modified version of the spellStarter script in POL 96/97 Distro with my converted POL 95 to 96 Distro but I am having a problem with inserting scrolls into the spellbook. I have read the corechanges (well searched through for refs to scroll anyway) and found no special changes to make them insertable into a spellbook. They do get inserted or atleast appear to be but when I open the book the pages are blank. I can only drop one of each kind of scroll in the book. Which is normal and why I believe they are being inserted. When I use the .spellbook command that book appears empty as well.

Here is a typical entry in my itemdesc file for scrolls and the spellbook:

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Spellbook 0x0EFA
{
    Name                Spellbook
    desc                spellbook
    Gump                0xFFFF
    MinX                40
    MaxX                60
    MinY                20
    MaxY                80
    Newbie              1
    SpellType		Magic
    BlocksCastingIfInHand 0
    RequiresAttention   0
    VendorSellsFor      22
    VendorBuysFor       11
    weight              1
    canRemoveScript     canRemove
}

Item 0x1f2d
{
    Name           reactivearmorscroll
    Desc           Reactive Armor scroll
    Script         scroll
    Spellid        7
    SpellType		Magic
    VendorBuysFor  6
    VendorSellsFor 12
    Tooltip        Doubleclick to cast a spell, or use Inscription to add this spell to a spellbook
}

The canRemove script for the spellbook is the one from POL 97 Distro.

If anyone can shed some light on this for me I'd appreciate it.

Posted: **Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:33 pm**

Try changing the class the scroll goes into from 'Item' to 'SpellScroll' ?

Posted: **Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:54 am**

Thanks Austin.

I seem to be encountering some strange errors. The odd thing is that on my "scripting/test" server the whole thing works but when I replace (delete and copy over) the public server with the test server I begin to get these errors.

I have fixed my scroll problem somehow without using your suggestion but I will go ahead and change the class anyway as that is the new standard.

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:44 am**

Austin,

My 096 scripts seem to insert scrolls just fine with the 64 scrolls defined as Item.
Any special reason for suggesting SpellScroll?

Posted: **Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:34 pm**

OldNGrey,

I also somehow fixed them without changing the class to SpellScroll. I did make the change anyway though in the event that is the way the cfg files are going. The strange thing is I don't know what I did to break it in the first place.

Maybe I'm just getting old.

*smiles wryly*

Perhaps I should ask the board admins to change my name to "OldNGreyer"/

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:20 am**

Nope,
I officially adopted Grey from a former user of the IRC forums a number of years ago with he permission. You can't, so there.

From my meagre pickings of Austin's brain I would have thought changing to 'SpellScroll' would only have an effect on the isa(POLClass xxxxx ) stuff.

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:59 pm**

Hey no fair picking Austin's brain. From what he's told me he needs every bit of what he's got.

*grins*