newspanel

Vars
channel_desc	What is the current, in-creation channel's description going to be?
channel_name	What is the current, in-creation channel's name going to be?
comment_text	What is the current, in-creation comment's body going to be?
creating_channel	Is the current user creating a new channel at the moment?
creating_comment	Is the current user creating a new comment at the moment?
crime_description	What is the user submitted, crime description for the new wanted issue?
criminal_name	What is the user submitted, criminal name for the new wanted issue?
current_channel	What newscaster channel is currently being viewed by the player?
current_image	The current image that will be submitted with the newscaster story.
current_message	What newscaster feed_message is currently having a comment written for it?
feed_channel_message	The message that's currently being written for a feed story.
viewing_wanted	Is the current user editing or viewing a new wanted issue at the moment?
Procs
attach_photo	This takes a held photograph, and updates the current_image variable with that of the held photograph's image. *user: The mob who is being checked for a held photo object.
create_channel	Performs a series of sanity checks before giving the user confirmation to create a new feed_channel using channel_name, and channel_desc. *channel_locked: This variable determines if other users than the author can make comments and new feed_stories on this channel.
create_comment	Constructs a comment to attach to the currently selected feed_message of choice, assuming that a user can be found and that a message body has been written.
create_story	Creates a new feed story to the global newscaster network. Verifies that the message is being written to a real feed_channel, then provides a text input for the feed story to be written into. Finally, it submits the message to the network, is logged globally, and clears all message-specific variables from the machine.
send_photo_data	Sends photo data to build the newscaster article.
start_creating_channel	This proc performs checks before enabling the creating_channel var on the newscaster, such as preventing a user from having multiple channels, preventing an un-ID'd user from making a channel, and preventing censored authors from making a channel. Otherwise, sets creating_channel to TRUE.
toggle_photo	Selects a currently held photo from the user's hand and makes it the current_image held by the newscaster. If a photo is still held in the newscaster, it will otherwise clear it from the machine.

Var Details

var
channel_desc
–

What is the current, in-creation channel's description going to be?

var
channel_name
–

What is the current, in-creation channel's name going to be?

var
comment_text
–

What is the current, in-creation comment's body going to be?

var
creating_channel
–

Is the current user creating a new channel at the moment?

var
creating_comment
–

Is the current user creating a new comment at the moment?

var
crime_description
–

What is the user submitted, crime description for the new wanted issue?

var
criminal_name
–

What is the user submitted, criminal name for the new wanted issue?

var
current_channel
– /datum/feed_channel

What newscaster channel is currently being viewed by the player?

var
current_image
– /datum/picture

The current image that will be submitted with the newscaster story.

var
current_message
– /datum/feed_message

What newscaster feed_message is currently having a comment written for it?

var
feed_channel_message
–

The message that's currently being written for a feed story.

var
viewing_wanted
–

Is the current user editing or viewing a new wanted issue at the moment?

Proc Details

proc
attach_photo
(/mob/user)

This takes a held photograph, and updates the current_image variable with that of the held photograph's image. *user: The mob who is being checked for a held photo object.

proc
create_channel
(channel_locked)

Performs a series of sanity checks before giving the user confirmation to create a new feed_channel using channel_name, and channel_desc. *channel_locked: This variable determines if other users than the author can make comments and new feed_stories on this channel.

proc
create_comment
()

Constructs a comment to attach to the currently selected feed_message of choice, assuming that a user can be found and that a message body has been written.

proc
create_story
(channel_name)

Creates a new feed story to the global newscaster network. Verifies that the message is being written to a real feed_channel, then provides a text input for the feed story to be written into. Finally, it submits the message to the network, is logged globally, and clears all message-specific variables from the machine.

proc
send_photo_data
()

Sends photo data to build the newscaster article.

proc
start_creating_channel
()

This proc performs checks before enabling the creating_channel var on the newscaster, such as preventing a user from having multiple channels, preventing an un-ID'd user from making a channel, and preventing censored authors from making a channel. Otherwise, sets creating_channel to TRUE.

proc
toggle_photo
()

Selects a currently held photo from the user's hand and makes it the current_image held by the newscaster. If a photo is still held in the newscaster, it will otherwise clear it from the machine.

newspanel /datum/newspanel

Vars

Procs

Var Details

var channel_desc –

var channel_name –

var comment_text –

var creating_channel –

var creating_comment –

var crime_description –

var criminal_name –

var current_channel – /datum/feed_channel

var current_image – /datum/picture

var current_message – /datum/feed_message

var feed_channel_message –

var viewing_wanted –