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Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Originally reported in zMUD 7.21
http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=21851

Now the same is happening with CMUD - using similar triggers but not from an imported .MUD file.

Basically I have triggers that colour people online in yellow
I have other triggers that colour industry types in green

Sometimes names come up green

The screenshot below shows it happening.
Notice the name 'Saddist' appears yellow through the page, then suddenly green. I made no changes to any triggers, aliases, variables etc during that session - I was idling for most of it.

The annoying thing is it's not possible to force a reproduction of this error - it happens seemingly randomly

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

I usually see this when the mud misses color codes.

#DEBUG color1.txt color2.txt
get it to happen
#DEBUG

Checking the files will probably point a finger at the mud.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

I'm sure it's not colour codes, because when it happened in zMUD then I changed the industry highlighting to red instead of green and the names started going red sporadically instead

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:48 pm

Could you be getting some sort of trigger clash with the trigger that colours the word "well" green?

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

No its the word Saddist on a new line that got default ansi coloring.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

nah, wouldn't be.

The "well" comes from a variable called industries, which is just a string list
bakers|bank|brewery ... well|windmill|yeast tank
etc.

The only thing that uses the variable industries is a regex that matches
\b(?:@industries)\b

with action
#CW $008000

There is no other action on @industries at all

The name highlighting is a regex
\b(?:@wholist)\b

with action
#CW $C08040

There is nothing else that tries to colour the @whoList variable either

It's not the mud at fault, I can almost guarantee that. The default colouring set by zMUD is white. The mud doesn't colour names at all. It also doesn't happen if I disable the highlighting class

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Try to catch it in DEBUG then and see the raw codes.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Didn't we already decide that you shouldn't use $RRGGBB colors in CMUD because of conflicts with the local variable syntax? I'd say that you should find another way to express your desired color and see if the problem goes away.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Didn't know about any conflicts with local variables. It's exactly what happened in zMUD though, so I'd be surprised if it's local variables this time

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:44 pm

Saying that, why were you using %q to match any punctuation when it was blank space you were trying to match? It's %s you use for that. Or, saying that, just explicitly putting the space in the pattern.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Because I want to match the start of a line too. %q is just %s but matches start/end of lines too

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

Trigger patterns of %q match punctuation, spaces, and end of line; making %q much more useful in general then %s. So that eliminates 1 problem.

Zugg already adjust #COLOR, #CW, and #PCOL to recognize the $RRGGBB syntax a while ago. The alternate syntax of #RRGGBB is also supported so that eliminates another issue.

I think it is pretty clear that there is a trigger problem, but I expect it is so obscure it may never be found.

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:15 pm

Just for giggles change the color of the @industries trigger from green to something else and see if Saddist appears incorrectly in that new colour rather than in green, if it does then there is some sort of odd bug going on with similar colouring triggers and we'll be getting closer to tracking it down, if not then I think it points more to a problem with the colouring system rather than triggers.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

See my initial reply to TonDiening...

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:01 pm

How many similar colouring triggers do you have? Only the two or more? If more and the industry one is turned off do you get the colour problem happening with a colour from one of the others?

I'm thinking some sort of internal lookup or pointer is going wrong and picking out the wrong trigger and executing it's body, but the only person who could confirm if such a thing is possible would be Zugg.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

have a few more, but only two colour in green
\b(?:@industries)\b
\b(?:@randomInfo)\b

The randomInfo variable doesn't exist yet though, so should never fire (was just put in in anticipation of stuff I never did in the end)

I've deleted randomInfo variable now too