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Room Manager

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The "Room Manager" utility / screen allows you to change several of the properties and limits for rooms. One at a time, several at a time, or all at once. The advantage of using this utiltity is that you can quickly view and change these values for all of your rooms without having to go into each room individually and change the values one at a time. ie... change your room authoring password in every room in a single stroke.

There are two list windows in Room Manager. The top list is a list of the rooms that are included in the loaded pat file, the rooms in the top list CAN NOT BE changed. Rooms must be moved into the lower list before they can be changed. You can move one, several, or all of the rooms from the top list into the lower list. All changes effect every room in the lower list with the exception of the "Set Selected Room in Lower List as ENTRANCE" button, it will change only the selected room into the ENTRANCE. The rooms in these lists DO NOT reflect the order of the rooms in the room list at your palace. The top list is initially sorted by RoomID number, not by how the rooms appear in your palaces room list.

As with any of the other utilities in PatBuddy, you must save the new (changed) *.pat file to disk and start your pserver using the new *.pat file before the changes take effect.

Click on the different buttons and text in the picture below for more info.

Top / Upper Room List

This is a list of the rooms that are included in the loaded pat file, the rooms in the top list CAN NOT BE changed. Rooms must be moved into the lower list before they can be changed.

Bottom / Lower Room List

This is a list of the rooms that you have selected to be changed. All changes effect every room in the lower list with the exception of the "Set Selected Room in Lower List as ENTRANCE" button, it will change only the selected room into the ENTRANCE.

Room Moving Controls "<<--All", "<<", ">>", "All-->>".

These buttons move the room or rooms from one list to the other. The "<<--All" button will clear the lower list and move all rooms into the top list, leaving no rooms to be changed. The "<<" button will move the selected room from the lower list into the top list. The ">>" button will move the selected room from the top list into the lower list. The "All-->>" button will move all rooms from the top list into the lower list, this is used when you would like the change to be made to every room at the same time. The rooms can also be moved from one list to the other by double clicking on the room.

Delete Rooms

Clicking this button will delete all rooms in the lower list from the loaded pat file. It WILL NOT delete the room marked as ENTRANCE, even if that room is included in the lower list. To delete the ENTRANCE... first set a different room as the ENTRANCE, then delete the old Entrance.

DropZone .T. or .F.

Clicking this button will either make the room / rooms in the lower list a DropZone, or remove the DropZone status from that room. Depending on the .T. or .F. value indicated on the button.

Private .T. or .F.

Clicking this button will either mark the room / rooms in the lower list as PRIVATE or NOT PRIVATE. Depending on the .T. or .F. value indicated on the button.

NoPaint .T. or .F.

Clicking this button will either mark the room / rooms in the lower list as having the NOPAINTING option on (.T.) or off (.T.). Depending on the .T. or .F. value indicated on the button.

NoCyborg .T. or .F.

Clicking this button will either mark the room / rooms in the lower list as having the NOCYBORGS option on (.T.) or off (.T.). Depending on the .T. or .F. value indicated on the button.

Hidden .T. or .F.

Clicking this button will either mark the room / rooms in the lower list as having the HIDDEN option on (.T.) or off (.T.). Depending on the .T. or .F. value indicated on the button.

NoGuests .T. or .F.

Clicking this button will either mark the room / rooms in the lower list as having the NOGUESTS option on (.T.) or off (.T.). Depending on the .T. or .F. value indicated on the button.

WizOnly .T. or .F.

Clicking this button will either mark the room / rooms in the lower list as having the WIZARDSONLY option on (.T.) or off (.T.). Depending on the .T. or .F. value indicated on the button.

Set MaxMember and Set MaxGuests

These buttons will set the MAXMEMBERS and / or MAXGUESTS value of the rooms in the lower list to the value you have entered in the field next to them. If you enter a value of zero (0) in the field, or the field is empty (blank), clicking these buttons will remove the MAXMEMBERS and / or MAXGUESTS options from those rooms. This will result in those rooms using the default member & guest values in your pserver.prefs file.

Toggle Button Value... .T. or .F.

Clicking this button will toggle the buttons with a logical value of .T. or .F.. ie... If the "Private" button is displaying "Private .T.", clicking the "Toggle Button Value" button will change the "Private" button to display "Private .F.".

Set Selected Room in Lower List as ENTRANCE

Clicking this button will will set the room that is selected in the lower list (Bunny Patch in picture above) as your palace's main ENTRANCE. The current ENTRANCE is displayed below this button.

Set Authoring Lock with Passcode Below

This option allows you to lock or unlock your rooms. This lock only prevents users from being able to author in those rooms. It does not prevent users from being able to enter them.

To lock, or change the password in the lower list of rooms, you will need to copy one of the scrambled passwords from your *.pat file. Then paste that scrambled password into the field below this button. This scrambled password must be enclosed in quotation marks just as it is in your *.pat file. If this field is empty (blank), then clicking this button will unlock the rooms in the lower list.

We understand that having to deal in these scrambled passwords is a pain in the... keyboard, and we would have loved to be able to have this program deal in unscrambled passwords. But until developers like us (Ali-Co) become a higher priority in the grand scheme of Palace, our hands are tied. We did request the info we needed a number of times. The cooperation just wasn't there.

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