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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:16 pm

Is it possible for capital "S" not to count as "s" (south) direction?

The same goes for the other English directions: N,E,W,NE etc.

In the MUD I play sometimes I need to enter "S" but the mapper moves to the south room which is not what I need.
I need it just to send "S" to the MUD.

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:23 pm

Does: ~S
manage to get around the predefined directions?

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:29 pm

"~S" still moves me one room south.
"S" is also sent to the MUD.

Even if "~S" would have worked, I wouldn't be satisfied with it because I don't think this kind of solution is an elegant one.
I need to disable capital direction from working as directions.

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:40 pm

Well the only elegant method I can think of is to somehow disable the default directions package to input the one command... but I'm not sure if that is even currently possible.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:38 am

#sendraw "S" might work.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Do quotes not work for this ("S")? I guess that would be the same as ~, though, and the same for ` at the beginning of the line.

What about #SENDRAW?

After that, about the only thing left to do is to remove the EnglishDirections package and create your own that removes "s"/"S" from the macro definition. Can't just do this to EnglishDirections because the next update will just overwrite that (plus it's read-only as well).

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:28 am

I've looked into "English Directions.pkg" SQLite database and further into the 'settings' table.

Couldn't find any uppercase directions. All directions were lowercase.

So, I don't think making a new directions package will solve the problem.
I presume that CMUD internally deals with this, accepting uppercase exits as valid exits.

P.S.
#SENDRAW "S" works ofc, but I would prefer CMUD not to take "S" the same as "s".

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Create a trigger of type oninput/Command Input, with the pattern

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:28 pm

best make it case sensative too

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Whoops, yeah, I thought I mentioned that, but apparently only in my head.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Unfortunately, you are correct that cmud automatically accepts both uppercase and lowercase versions of the directions. I had tried for a while to make a new set of directions using capital letters as the short name, e.g. J as "swim ne", but it would count both 'j' and 'J' as the same direction (whichever direction it found first in its list).

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Rahab, you should be able to use an oninput trigger for that one, too, as long as you add "swim <whatever>" to the list of commands for the actual direction, and don't use sendraw in your trigger. It's kind of a clunky hack-around, but I think it's better than being case sensitive by default.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

well, actually, I didn't want to put 'swim ne' to the directions list for 'ne', because there are locations where I need to use the 'swim ne' command, and 'ne' won't work. so a path with 'j' won't work. I haven't worried about it for a while, but I'm poking at it some more now. An oninput trigger is probably part of the solution.