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Newbie Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 8

Hello,

I'm trying find a way of sending a string list to my mud, in attempt to speed up a puzzle solving quest.

What I have done so far isn't ideal and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

So far I have..

#alias guesssolution {#Send %pop(List);enter solution}
and I have a Variable named List with all the possible solutions in it.

So currently I just enter "guesssolution" until the correct solution comes up.

The command "enter solution" causes a balance delay.

My biggest annoyance with this script is that the %pop command deletes the solutions as it goes. As a workaround I have set the @list with a default, and each time I use this script I just reset the list to the orginal to get all the values back.

So is there another command I can use instead of %pop, or am I on the wrong track completely.

I did originally try using the #alarm function to do it all automatically, but I had trouble getting it to stop once the correct solution was found, so I scrapped it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sog

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:46 pm

#alias resetsolution {iter=1}
#alias guesssolution {#send %item(@List,@iter);enter solution;iter=@iter+1}

Hopefully that's self-explanatory.

Also, your alarm: if you give the alarm an ID, you can create a trigger that goes off when you enter the correct solution that does #UNTRIG <id> to delete the alarm.

Newbie Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 8

Hey thats great, I see exactly what you're saying.

My only issue is now to figure out how to stop the @iter variable returning a value of 1+1+1 etc, instead of a single number.

Cheers for the advice!!

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

I think Fang was thinking about CMud.

For ZMud, I think, You have to use for example

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Or instead of using eval you could just do:

#ADD iter 1...

My question would be... is there a different starting pattern for each solution?
If so I'd just trigger off the starting pattern to always fire the exact solution.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

There are always at least 3 ways to skin a cat.

You could also use #math, for example.

#math iter {@iter+1}

Usually though, when I'm doing some sort of counter, #add looks the nicest, I give you that Cool

Prog

Newbie Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 8

Thanks guys, that worked a treat, I'm going to try to put it in an alarm now and see how that goes.

Ralgith, the puzzle consists of 4 off/on buttons and the exact solution is random each time. As far as I know the method I'm using is the simplest option, but I'm not a puzzle or Zmud whizz. Even so I'm very happy with the results I've had so far.

Sog

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Interesting... and it can be any combination of on and off I take it?
If so then... well... yeah ;) PM me the exact text from room entry to success with at least 1 of each possible failure message and I'll write you a quick and dirty :)
Then you can take that and learn from it.