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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I cannot seem to remember what the solution was in order to fix the fact that if I make an alias for something, anything in %params that has certain characters like " has them stripped. So if I wanted to do an emote with speech in it, but wanted to alias that emote, I can't. How can I fix that?

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:21 pm

There's an option for whether aliases parse their arguments or not. Turn it off.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Ah, that's what it was. Thank you.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

There should be a half-butt remove parsing option which only removes the parsing on basic characters, but still parses aliases within aliases and such. Razz

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:01 pm

What? There's no parsing on the command line that would result in something that I'd call "aliases-within-aliases". Arguments to an alias are always strings, regardless of whether or not they're parse on or parse off. To get the arguments out as commands you'd need to use #exec or perhaps #send in both cases.

Describe exactly what it is you're doing; I'm sure there's a way to do it.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I thought it was pretty obvious? Any alias or oninput trigger can fire off of a line sent by another alias or oninput trigger, so far as I know, these are disabled when parsing is turned off?

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:59 pm

Ah, I understand a little better now. I'm not sure what'd happen in that case, but if it's a problem you could just create two aliases, one for calling from within scripts with Parse Arguments on, and one for the command line where it's off.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I suppose, I just think a half parse feature would be neat if it were doable, shutting of parsing only for special characters. But I suppose it will merely be a dream of convenience.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:21 pm

Well yes, but adding more options to the UI makes things more confusing for new users (and old users, tbh) and since you can do it with what you have already, there's no need.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

And how can I do it?

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:31 am

I already explained that, using two separate aliases, one for the two different options.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

... but what if you want to use an alias in the version of the alias that doesn't parse special characters?

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:18 pm

Then you can do that all you like. The parse arguments option only affects the values of that alias' parameters when it's called, it doesn't change anything involving aliases called within that alias (unless that alias is doing something with the %nn variables, anyway, but if an alias cared about that you wouldn't want to disable Parse Arguments in the first place).

Basically, one of two things is happening here. Either you're making a mistake in your understanding of how Parse Arguments works and you should make some test cases to see what it affects and how, or I'm not understanding what your problem here is and you should explain it in more detail. XML and actual code about the actual problem you're solving will help.