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Beginner Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 19

Hey,

I am having a problem setting up a random color trigger for says or tells....the colorcodes of my MUD are

$RED$ - red $HIR$ - pink
$GRN$ - green $HIG$ - light green
$YEL$ - orange $HIY$ - yellow
$BLU$ - dark blue $HIB$ - blue
$MAG$ - purple $HIM$ - magenta
$CYN$ - cyan $HIC$ - light blue
$HIK$ - grey $HIW$ - white

Also:
$0$ - normal, resets color
$BOLD$ - bold, usually white

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks alot

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Most likely you'll need to treat $ as a symbol in trigger otherwise trigger will think it isn't. Something like

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:45 pm

I've never quite understood what it's for, but zMUD has a section in the preferences for setting the MUD's colour syntax. You may find this useful for something.

What you're probably looking for is something like this:

#var colours {"$RED$"|"$GRN$"|...etc...|"$HIW$"}
#function RandCol {%item(@colours,%random(14)}

Now whenever you want a random colour in your script, you just insert @RandCol instead.

say @{Randcol}Isn't @{RandCol}this @{RandCol}say @{RandCol}colourful?$0$

Once you've got this facility to choose a random colour, I'm sure you can think of plenty of applications for it.

Beginner Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 19

Ok...it is working in commands like #ECHO or #SAY, but not in normal mud commands...I've tried to figure out the reason, but I don't see why Sad

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Do you have variables set to expand from the command line in preferences?

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

This is pretty much exactly what it's for, Fang. When properly filled out and enabled, it's supposed to see the color code and treat it the same as if it were something like MXP or ANSI (that is, as a user you just see the color and not the color code). The $BOLD$ looks like it might be unsupported in that framework, though.

Also, I don't play on nor have I visited muds that used such color codes so I don't know if any of it actually works.

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:25 am

It does, I've used it on FoxMUD before.

Beginner Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 19

Thanks alot...it's all working perfectly well!..and the zMUD colorcodes are awesome also...one last question, can I make it in a way where i simply type "colorsay" for example and the output would be..You say : bla bla bla

where every single letter is automatically undergoing the @{RandCol} ?

Thanks alot in advance

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:44 am

Ugh, you really want to annoy people :P

This one's a bit more difficult. I'm not at home so I haven't tested it, but hopefully you get the idea:

#alias colorsay {TempString="";#loop %len(%-1) {TempString=%concat(@TempString,%insert(@RandCol,%SUBSTRING(%-1,%eval(%i-1)),%i))};say @TempString}

I couldn't remember the function to take a substring between two numbers (if there's not one, you could make one with left and right (back)).

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

I'm not either so this is also untested, but the ideas the thing right?:

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:40 pm

Yes, that's a much better idea. You need a less specific pattern though, and you don't need to quote @RandCol since the function returns a string. I'm pretty sure you need to include the capture in the replace, too, giving you something like

#alias colorsay {say %subregex(%-1,"[^ ]",%concat(@RandCol,%1))}

You might need to use %pat instead of %1.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:20 pm

Sorry, I forgot this was a zMUD thread. Again Embarassed

Newbie Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 2

I need some help with this script, i use the same mud and i was trying to get this script to work and i dont know why it wont? i am having trouble with the first two parts, the setting of the variables and the setting of the function, i use zmud not cmud so any way you can help would be awesome

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:00 am

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:58 am

Newbie Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 2

i copy and pasted that and the first part is working, the variable part but the function part isnt is says syntax error?

Wanderer Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 96