Thing Class

Thing Class

Hartismere School

[This is preliminary documentation and is subject to change.]

Base class for a Thing.

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
EJW.TextBasedAdventureThing

Namespace: EJW.TextBasedAdventure
Assembly: EJW.TextBasedAdventure (in EJW.TextBasedAdventure.dll) Version: 2.0.5850.21153

Syntax

[SerializableAttribute]
public class Thing

<SerializableAttribute>
Public Class Thing

[SerializableAttribute]
public ref class Thing

[<SerializableAttribute>]
type Thing =  class end

The Thing type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Bucket	A Bucket object for the Thing.
	Carried	Gets or Sets if the Thing is being carried.
	Container	Gets or Sets if the Thing can contain other Things.
	Contents	For Containers: gets all things that this Thing contains.
	Description	The description of the Thing.
	InPlayerRoom	Returns true if the Thing is in the same room as the player.
	InRoom	Gets or Sets the Room this Thing is in, or null if not in a Room.
	InThing	Gets or Sets the Thing this Thing is in, or null if not in a Thing.
	Name	The Name of the Thing
	Visible	Gets or Sets the Things Visibility. If set to true the Thing is placed in the current room.
	Wearable	Gets or Sets if the Thing can be worn.
	WithDefiniteArticle	Returns the Thing Name preceded with "the".
	WithIndefiniteArticle	Returns the Thing Name preceded with "a" or "an".
	Worn	Gets or Sets if the Thing is Worn.

Methods

	Name	Description
	Carry	Obsolete. The Thing's in-game state is set to Carried.
	Hide	Obsolete. The Thing's in-game state is set to Hidden.
	PutInRoom(String)	Obsolete. Move the Thing into a room
	PutInRoom(Room)	Obsolete. Move the Thing into a room
	Wear	Obsolete. The Thing's in-game state is set to Worn.

Events

	Name	Description
	DescriptionOverride	Used to override the default description text for this Thing.
	PostProcess	Executes after everything else for this Thing.
	PreProcess	Executes before anything else for this Thing.