Support for Up/Down direction [Quest export]

[Selsynn]

Like for the gridborder parameter, I would like the up and down direction to be exported to Quest.
I saw how to specify it in trizbord, but when I exported, the cardinal indication was the thing exported (east / north / west / south)

Like for the other option, I could dig in the code to alter it and push a merge request, if you're interested.

[henck]

That looks like a bug, because Trizbort.io does support up/down directions. It's exporting them wrong. You're welcome to contribute (see also issue #12).

[henck]

I can see that Trizbort at this point does not export up/down directions to quest. However, this information is available to export. If I could have a sample Quest XML snippet that shows what the code should look like, I can add the export.

[Happy-Ferret]

I'd be interested in the "secret sauce" to that myself.
I was unable to get "up/down" exports working in general.

Am I right to assume CodeGenerator.dirToStr(dir: Direction) has to be extended to also accept ConnectorType for this to work properly?

[henck]

@Happy-Ferret Yes. dirToStr should probably be moved out of CodeGenerator, since it might be pretty specific per adventuring system. Indeed, the trick is to find the Direction, and also look at the ConnectorType to see if it's a special case.

Trizbort thinks in terms of 16 directions. The cardinal ones (N,NE,E, ...) and also (NNE, NSE, ...). Any direction may be marked as special. That is, up/down or in/out or even something custom.

For Tads 3 code generation, the Tads generator should have its own dirToStr that performs this check and generate the correct code. For Quest, similar, although I just looked into that and couldn't (quickly) find what Quest expects to find in its XML.

[henck]

Up/down and in/out support is now available for all generators. dirToStr now takes ConnectorType to make this possible.