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ID Category Severity Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
0011306 [DCSS] Bug Report text always 2017-12-01 21:32 2019-02-01 20:44
Reporter NormalPerson7 View Status public  
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Priority normal Resolution open  
Status new   Product Branch 0.21 ancient branch
Summary 0011306: Trying to put on incompatible armour in forms results in unhelpful message of wrong item type.
Description In Statue Form and other forms, putting on armour incompatible with that form results in
               "That's the wrong kind of item!"
as if it is a potion or something that isn't armour.

It would be far more helpful to have this say:
               "You can't wear that [at the moment]" or something similar.
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(0033029)
ebering (developer)
2019-02-01 20:44

 This is the result of the default behavior of the item select menu: if an item is not selectable by a given selector and you press its letter you get this generic message. If instead you use * to show all and then select the item you get a useful message.

A solution would be to add a reason return parameter to item_is_selected to contain a reason why an item wasn't selected. This probably is best done by refactoring the messaging from the verbose versions of can_wear/can_wield to require the caller to do the messaging instead, when desired. Doable, but a bit of work.

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Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-12-01 21:32 NormalPerson7 New Issue
2019-02-01 20:44 ebering Note Added: 0033029

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