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Wanderer Joined: 07 Nov 2000 Posts: 53 Location: Germany

Hi there!

Long enough away from mudding, now back, and also new problems in triggering, i hope you can help me out.

I want to capture multiple lines, and from the help of the finished Script section i have a solution.
But the first line is not always triggered.

What I want to do is capture channel tells and color them, every channel in another color,
let me give you some examples of some channel tells:

1) [Public:Dreamer] Hello there!
2) [Public:Dreamer says Hello]
3) [Murder:Ghost of a rat] Dreamer has killed me.

In Case 2) this is a comment who always ends with "]", if it goes more than 1 line, i use a condition to trigger and all goes well.

The problem I encounter is I can't say when the line ends and how to capture the "]" character in a line.
There doesn't follow a prompt to catch and to say the line has ended.
The lines sometimes don't end with a punctuation, so there is no way to say when it ends.
The only thing I know is: the channel tells start always with a "[" and somewhere in the middle or the end of the sentense there follows the closing "]".

If I have a trigger like ~[Public:* it would color it, but I have to see if there is a "]" in the line,
when there is no one in the first line, then it is always a comment that goes more than one line,
then my condition can trigger the ending "]".

I played with %ends and %begins, but that is not what i want, i want to have a pattern that sees if
there is the "]" in the first line, if not, then it has to fire my condition. Like: (%contains "]", then do this...)

Is there a command or function I am not seeing in my helpfile?
Hope there is someone out there who knows what I want to say and can help me out here on this one.

Using zmud 7.21 for now.
Thanks in advance for your help, if you need more examples then i can give more, but i hope i clarified all well.

Hugs,
Dreamer

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:01 pm

Use a multistate trigger.

#trig {~[Public:} {...}
#cond {~]} {...} {within|param=10}

This will fire the condition only if the closing bracket is within 10 lines of the opening bracket. You need to be careful using this - it won't handle lines with the closing bracket on the same line as the opening bracket properly. But this will work for lines where they're different, and you can use something like #if %pos("]",%line) {#state 0} to reset the trigger in that case.

A much easier solution if your MUD lets you set the line length is to turn off server-side word wrapping. You can set up zMUD's word wrapping to mimic the MUD's if you find it easier to read, but with it on it'll let you do something like ~[Public:[%w ]~] or (regex) [Public:[\w ]+].

Wanderer Joined: 07 Nov 2000 Posts: 53 Location: Germany

Thanks for your answer Fang Xianfu.

What I had until now was something like:

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The only idea I can come up with is a regex that allows the closing bracket to either be there or not. Then when the closing brack is not at the end of the line check its length. You might have to adjust the length comparison for your wrapping width, just remember to allow some for slightly larger words. The worst that happens with this method is that it colors 1 extra line.

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:08 am

You might also want to change %ends to %pos in that script since some of your examples have the closing square bracket in the middle of a line.

Wanderer Joined: 07 Nov 2000 Posts: 53 Location: Germany

Hi!

Back again from work and just looked inte the MUD where my character was the last hours and all went well.
Everything colored well and stopped at last when the closing bracket came up (if it was in the first line or a multi-line tell). Very Happy

This is what I have so far: