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Novice Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 30

#scroll gossip 5 1

would display the last 5 lines of gossip, but it displays it backwards, starting with the newest and going to the oldest.

Any way to get it to display the last 5 lines of gossip, but showing in the correct order, oldest to newest?

Asbestos
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:38 pm

Dunno how to do it, but I'd say do an #additem and use %pop (or %push? I think that's it) and #echo to display it the way you want...
Sorry, not sure if that would work. But best I can come up with.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

There's no way outside of #SCROLL to query the scrollback buffer, Vitae. You'd have to manage your own version to do any of what you suggested, which means that outside of a plugin it's likely to be slow and resource-intensive (since you'd have to hold everything either in memory via Zscript or to a file on your hard-drive).

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:04 pm

Why couldn't you use an alias-trigger combo?

#alias scrollback {#var scrollcap "";#var scrolling %2;#t+ ScrollCapture;#scroll %1 %2}
#trig "ScrollCapture" {^(*)$} {#var scrollcap %push(%1,@scrollcap);#add scrolling -1;#if (!@scrolling) {#forall @scrollcap {#say %i};#t- ScrollCapture}}

or something.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:37 pm

That should do it though I'd be more inclined to put the #t- before the #forall.