Zugg Software :: View topic - How to disable mailto: and http link parsing?

Newbie Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

Hi, I'm already at wits end here right now. I don't really know where did this came from but right now cmud is parsing map in my mud into mailto addresses that are total gibberish. I've been trying to disable everything I can think of (MXP/HTML for example) but nothing seem to help.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:49 pm

I believe what you are looking for is the clickableurls package. That package is loaded by default and has a trigger to make certain web links clickable, you can eiter delete it or disable it and you'll no longer beable to click on them. Not sure why you want to disable webpage clickables, I use that all the time, no more <ctrl +c> <alt+tab> <ctrl +v> to see a link from a friend

Wanderer Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 68 Location: Texas

The problem here is that the MUD you are playing is sending the MXP codes. Not CMud. CMud does -not- automatically convert anything to links. Disabling MXP/etc just makes it so that MXP no longer expands the tags and you end up seeing output like what you have above instead of having them converted to links. If the MUD you are playing has any commands/options to turn MXP off, that is the proper way to do so. (Usually you'd just type 'mxp off') If your MUD does -not- have this option or some sort of 'HTML' options or something like that, you may want to talk to the administrators about it. A MUD should never try to force MXP tags down their players throats, because not all players are using MXP enabled clients and even those that are may not have MXP turned on.

Wanderer Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 68 Location: Texas

I didn't realize there was any such package for that kind of auto-conversion. Interesting. I don't seem to have it anywhere. Well, try what wyrm suggests first, then..

Edit: Ah yes... I'm an idiot.. There it is.. I guess i've just never dug that deep before.. You want to go to your Package Editor (View->All settings) and somewhere up top you ought to see All, Clickable URLs and 'yourmudname' Pick the Clickable URLs tab, and then right click the Clickable URLs module and disable it by unchecking 'Enabled'

Now my own question. Is there any way to remove this package for all sessions created by default in the future? I'm sure some people find this a nice option, but I personally hate it and don't like the idea of any clickable links that come up that weren't created by me or the MUD server. I believe I may have done that by removing Clickable URLs from the General options->scripting->packages and then choosing 'Save as Default', but I'm not 100% sure. Yet.

Edit 2: Yep, that took care of my problem. No more clickable URLs for new sessions. Hoorah.

Newbie Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

Thank you very much for prompt answers.
It was indeed this new clickableurl package. Didn't notice that new one.

Thanks again.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:14 pm

Its new, added by default to new sessions, old exsisting sessions need to manually add it in though.

Wanderer Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 68 Location: Texas

Ah, yeah. I kinda figured that to a point but didn't really equate that to why it wasn't in any of my sessions before. When 2.30 came out I had to do a complete reinstall and manually recreate my sessions and put what I wanted back into them, so now it's there on all of them. I was kinda wondering how they just suddenly happened to have the Clickable URLs packages in them when they weren't there before. But that's alright, it's not in any of them anymore.

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:53 pm

Your example raises an interesting point too...With that kind of inline map using the @ character, it's always going to be possible for it to look like a valid email address (even though in your example it wasn't a valid email address). So even if I somehow improved the email regular expression pattern to not match your original example, I could see map positions where it would look valid.

I know that several MUDs use the @ character to represent the current position on an ascii map, so I'll need to reconsider this feature in the Clickable URL package.