Zugg Software :: View topic - [1.18] Multiple Windows Fail to receive : commands

Newbie Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 2

I play on a MUD where it's common for people to multi-play characters, and after researching the best method to multi-play characters with CMUD, I've gone with the multiple windows for 1 session approach.

However, it seems that one the staples of ZMud was the ability to use the focus character : (colon) to send a command to both windows if there no prefaced character.

For example, if I have two windows Foo and Bar, if I sent the command :stand, the characters in Foo and Bar would stand. Otherwise, I'd have to use the F: stand, or B: stand in order to get the specified character to stand. In ALL the betas of CMud that I've play tested : <command> fails to send the command to all the active windows, and only sends it to the current window.

As Zugg has already sent out the notification about the impending CMUD public release, I'd like to see this possible bug addressed ahead of time. I'm aware that is possibly a 'low' priority item, but in terms of making the adjustment easier for existing ZMud users, it'd be helpful.

Thanks, and please keep of the good work. It's certainly appreciated.

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:42 am

Confirmed not to be working. How annoying :(

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:43 am

Try #all <command>

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:15 am

Thanks Seth. You could always create an alias

#alias sa {#all {%params}}

or something until it's fixed

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

It might be the "smart" command line stuff. I know that there were some complaints from people where : was used for emotes on a MUSH and god commands on a MUD so it might be that the ":" is being treated like the emote rather than the focus character?

I know Zugg wanted to get away from the whole customizing of special characters (especially the line separators) because it makes compatibility a nightmare, but for some things I think it's important just to have those explicit "on" or "off" things, like I will never use the focus character ever in all my days of MUD/MUSHing, but I will use it for MUD/MUSH commands, so for me it would be always best to just turn off the ":" but for you it sounds like you would want it always on. It's probably too soon to the first release to expect a radio button that has the options "off, on, smart" for certain special characters.

Newbie Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 2

Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:02 am

You know there is still a tab under Scripting called Special Characters where you can disable special characters. It just doesn't work.