Re: [TADS2] giveVerb's validDo

"Steve Mading" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> :> So, if you want to have "ask dude for thingy" transform into
> :> "dude, give me thingy", with the right replacement of pronouns
> :> (so it says "He" instead of "You"), it might be something
> :> like this:
>
> : Thanks for replying.  Unfortunately your solution seems to preserve my
> : problem; NotPresentItem may be a valid IObj for "ask for," but when
> : recast as "dude, give me it" you should get a visibility error.
>
> But calling execCommand() does call all the appropriate ver...
> properties, so if your ver... property checks for visibility, it
> should work.

Sorry, what I wrote wasn't clear.  I don't want a visibility error, but a
"he can't give you that" error.

No problems though; I looked at the manual again and there's a lot more
useful stuff there than I'd remembered.  I didn't know you could have
execCommand skip dobj validation.

Kevin Venzke