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Topic: Problems with the ALT key |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:37 pm Subject: Problems with the ALT key |
I am a little confused - you hold the alt key down, which is what causes you problems, but typing ctrl as part of the key combo is slower to type? Why not hold the ctrl key down? Or do you have some ... |
Topic: Plug-ins |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:03 am Subject: Plug-ins |
Having been thinking about this (distracting me from my degree studies here Zugg) I think that providing a bare bones client with an assortment of plugins would be an excellent design decision.
It ... |
Topic: Contact Management |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:58 am Subject: Contact Management |
Yup I can definately live with exporting to xml, editting and re-importing |
Topic: Incoming Email Process |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:57 am Subject: Incoming Email Process |
Locally maintainable blacklists would be my preference to be honest - coupled with the bayesian filter it shouldn't take long to mimic those available as public resources and avoids the issues of peop ... |
Topic: "Private Message Subjects" Please Clarify |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:54 am Subject: "Private Message Subjects" Please Clarify |
Could you make that a potentially multiline "private comment" field? It would be very handy to be able to attach a kind of postit note to a mail so you can capture your thoughts on it when you read t ... |
Topic: Header vs Message Store |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:50 pm Subject: Header vs Message Store |
You can always filter out the header in the view, so it is only those of us that want to read the headers in the store who will suffer the uglies.
Having a simple Show Header option on the viewing ... |
Topic: Incoming Email Process |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:46 pm Subject: Incoming Email Process |
7a process tags
7b apply bayesian filtering
perhaps? |
Topic: Accounts Discussion |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:44 pm Subject: Accounts Discussion |
Seconded.
Would want to keep the option of accessing any at any location though. |
Topic: User Interfaces |
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Forum: General zApp Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:42 pm Subject: User Interfaces |
well you could detect which the default mailclient is and just "copy" its settings for layout
I think personally I wold go with the idea of designing it to use xml layout definitions from the word go ... |
Topic: Filtering Discussion |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:35 pm Subject: Filtering Discussion |
Yes, I would filter before tag expansion and after tag expansion.
Also I think I would have a system of temporarily replacing bad tags with a <badtag> tag to aid in subsequent filtering (as som ... |
Topic: Contact Management |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:33 pm Subject: Contact Management |
XML anyone? I agree totally with Rainchild here, and it might be worth implementing the database format as an xml schema.
I like being able to edit such things manually from time to time, and I gues ... |
Topic: Script Language |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:30 pm Subject: Script Language |
I believe you can include the scripting hosts without a license fee but not the VBA editor - when we included VBA scripting in a product this was certainly the case, so we wrote our own script editor. ... |
Topic: Data Store Discussion |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:26 pm Subject: Data Store Discussion |
Regarding storage, Zugg is currently intending all headers to be in a database whethre or not the emails are stored in a database or in flat files - can I put a vote in for a choice of having headers ... |
Topic: Serious email client questions |
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Forum: eMobius Discussion Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 5:43 pm Subject: Serious email client questions |
Much of this is repeats of other ppls, but that is what surveys are about:
Must haves:
View headers and size without downloading from server
Delete on server without download
Spam filtering (see n ... |
Topic: The Future of Zmud... |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:54 pm Subject: The Future of Zmud... |
Generally I am anti-thin client, and in a way your suggestion is of a thin client. However the ability to pick up your settings from a central storage facility does sound as though it has some benefi ... |
Topic: Is there a easy way to... |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 7:37 pm Subject: Is there a easy way to... |
#session will do what I think you want...
quit;#ses Another
for instance (see help, you can also specify mud address and port number) |
Topic: Dynamic mudserver reconnection |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 5:52 pm Subject: Dynamic mudserver reconnection |
ah yes thanks both - session will do nicely while testing and MXP implementation looks like a sensible option overall. |
Topic: Tweaking the MUD prompt option |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:09 pm Subject: Tweaking the MUD prompt option |
You could try a trigger to split the awkward line into two bits thus:
#tr {(* HP:(%a) MV:(%a)) > (*)} {%1;%4}
this has assumed you may want to snag the health and move status, and it may split pr ... |
Topic: Dynamic mudserver reconnection |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:23 pm Subject: Dynamic mudserver reconnection |
Just a quicky.
As a Uni project I am working on a distributed mud server architecture, and as part of the load balancing scheme, I want to be able to tell a client to reconnect to a different server ... |
Topic: degenrated topic regarding nothing |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:17 pm Subject: degenrated topic regarding nothing |
"AND offer free upgrades for life" - this is the one thing which bothers me in the ZMud license agreement. Who's life is this we are talking about? Fortunately due to my lifestyle and advancing age, ... |
Topic: Help to remove a window |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:39 pm Subject: Help to remove a window |
Woo I'm being helpful :-) |
Topic: Mapping when following or pulled by currents |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:29 pm Subject: Mapping when following or pulled by currents |
Well well well - I never knew that!
onroomenter and onroomcreate are special aliases you can set which work like event handlers. So in Vijilante's scripts above, every time he goes into a room (afte ... |
Topic: Mapping when following or pulled by currents |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 10:50 pm Subject: Mapping when following or pulled by currents |
Um yup I am afraid you would :-( And you would presumably need to visit the rooms to find the sextant readings for them. Can't think of a way around that I am afraid.
Look on it as an exciting ch ... |
Topic: Using %roomflags |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:56 pm Subject: Using %roomflags |
Brings up a good point actually - it would be nice to have multiple costs attachable to each room so that you can use a different one depending on your mode of travel |
Topic: Flashing |
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:54 pm Subject: Flashing |
Not sure what you mean by flashing but it could be that the mud has set your background to a flashing colour... you could try changing font settings to see if that makes a difference and then if it do ... |
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