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Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I use Pouring|DataGroup for variables. The declaration is #class Pouring|Datagroup. To return I use #class 0

CMud created my OrderDB variable outside the Pouring folder. I have been unsure about the pipes since day one. Otherwise what am I missing?

I declared the order within a conditional though, partway through a script. I had just changed it to #var OrderDB "" {_nodef} {Pouring|DataGroup} but now wonder if I need to declare it early.

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

The pipes are from the old, ZMud way of class pathing. Aside from possibly needing some sort of brackets around them, I don't know that there's anything syntactically wrong in your use of them. In CMud (and I don't remember if this was different or not yet implemented in 2.37), there's an alternative pathing scheme:

//module name/class name/.../variable name

This can be used in many more places in your code, and while it does make each line longer CMud never deviates from that specific variable.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

Normally in ZMud I would just export the whole settings to text and replace the pipes into slants, but in CMud I see the export is XML. An XML file can not be edited as plain text, I think. How would I do a replace in XML, or where would I find out how to make XML text files?

Another database just was created outside its target folder. I had already re-installed, but I must have a bad install, or damaged a data file when I crashed trying to import Achaean Curing Project codes. I want to see about fixing ACP, but that might be a bad idea. Are there any files that could make CMud confused?

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:34 pm

XML is text, you can even open it in something as simple as Notepad. I recommend Notepad++ for XML editing.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

nothing like 'find in all open documents' and end line replacing

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:40 am

Letia, TextPad is another Notepad alternative that may have the features you are asking about.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

Notepad does that, I was agreeing. I've used it for years, it's helped my codes since it matched brackets. Also it's nice for logs.

I tried the Pouring/DataBase syntax and it doesn't work. This error is very bad. I am thinking about not mudding.

Beginner Joined: 22 Jun 2010 Posts: 17

i use dreamweaver to edit my xml

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

By deleting many files, I see that my DB is broken. Cool, that I can fix.

I think what must be happening ZMud on return to a main script from a subroutine returned to the main script's class, so I wrote my code for that. CMud keeps the subroutines class statement.

What seems broke is using the dot convention; as such @PotionAI.prefix1 is unpredictable and I have to call %db(@PotionAI,prefix1). I used a lot of the former.

%format is very different, and since all my scripts use %format I am deleting a lot of tilde and adding quotes.

I just noticed the CMud code slash are unix style while the slash at the top of the editor tree are windows style. What we need then is an animated windshield wiper to say anything goes. That imagery is killing me.