The basic building block of most classes in the engine. Most classes extend this class to get access to usefull features.

The parameter name is used as this object’s Display Name while the parameter description is used as this object’s description when the Player uses the command Look on this object.

package: core;

Contents

• Constructors
  • WObject()
  • WObject(String name)
  • WObject(String name, String description)
• Methods
  • getDisplayName
  • getMatchName
  • getDescription
  • setName
  • setDescription
  • toString
  • equals(WObject o)
  • equals(String o)

Constructors

WObject()

Construct with display name ‘obj’ and blank description.

WObject(String name)

Construct with display name name and blank description.

WObject(String name, String description)

Construct with display name name and description description

Methods

String getDisplayName()

Returns the display name of this object.

String getMatchName()

Returns the display name of this object, but lower case with all spaces replaced with underscores.

String getDescription()

Returns the description of this object.

void setName(String name)

Sets the display name to name and sets the match name to name that is lower case with spaces replaced by underscores.

void setDescription(String desc)

Sets the description of this object to desc.

String toString()

Overrides Java’s Object toString method. Returns a string of the form: displayName : description.

boolean equals(WObject o)

Returns true iff both object’s description and match name paramters are equal.

boolean equals(String o)

Returns true iff both this object’s match name is equal to the string provided.