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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 3:33 pm

Hey guys, this one is probably really easy, but I've been away from scripting and muds for a few years now. I just bought CMUD, and I am loving it so far. It's like a neat and tidy zMud. But I am trying to do something I can't seem to figure out.

I'm currently playing Aardwolf, and I am trying to setup a simple chat window. At first I was using the initial parts of the chats for the triggers, IE

BloodyThorn gossips 'Hey guys how's it going?'
and my trigger would look like this - #trigger {^(%w) gossips (*)} {#cap Chat;#gag}

And that seemed to work fine, with the exception of the odd NPC that would use a say or a tell.

I've since learned more about the MUD, I'm really new to it. I've learned that you can turn on tagging for certain parts of the mud, and I can have it to where it proceeds any chat with a tag denoting which chat channel it comes out in...so the line suddenly looks like this now.

{chan ch=gossip}BloodyThorn gossips 'Hey guys how's it going?'
My trigger doesn't change much, it just becomes more solid by using #trigger {^~{chan ch=gossip~}} {#cap Chat;#gag}
Only thing is, I can't figure out how to strip the tag '{chan ch=gossip}' out of the text when it hits the chat window to clean it up a bit for the end output. It'd be nice if I never saw the tag in the end output, only used as a way to trigger more reliably but transparent to the output.

I've looked where I could, and I can't seem to find an answer. Any help would be appreciated.

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 4:53 pm

Okay, I figured out how to strip out the tag with the #sub command...but now I seem to have another issue...it's stripped out the ansi colours.

I added this command to my chat window
#trigger {~{chan ch=gossip~}(*)} {#sub {%1}}

And it's stripped the tag, Yay, but it's also stripped all the ansi colours. And idea around this?

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:10 pm

Keep your current trigger doing what it's doing, the #trigger {^~{chan ch=gossip~}} {#cap Chat;#gag} one. Then create another trigger in your Chat window that does:

#trig {^~{chan ch=gossip~}} {#sub ""}

and that should remove that part while leaving the rest of the line intact. You might want to make it more generic, like:

#trig {^~{chan ch=%w~}} {#sub ""}
or even
#trig {^~{*~}} {#sub ""}

to remove tags that aren't from the gossip channel, too.

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:30 pm

Actually, easier way to do this. I use this for any channel that I capture/log.

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:33 am

Thank you both for the reply, I tried both and they both work eloquently. I ended up going with Charneus' for simplicity sake.

These tags are great, the old mud I played didn't have them, so I was never able to do some of the stuff I am able to do with this mud.

Next I will be working on a seperate static map window, and anything else I can to move important informationt that the mud has tags for to a static window.

Thanks again, both of you.