Zugg Software :: View topic - [Enhancement] Add vnum to mouse hover information

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:28 pm

Future mapper enhancement idea.

Right now hovering the mouse over a room gives the room name and database key. It would be so much more convenient to have it give both room key and room vnum. The alternative is to have to go into the room properties and look it up on the one tab that contains the information.

Like this:
Name of room
#key (vnum)

With muds providing the vnum I've had a continual need to look up the vnums and it gets very annoying only being able to see this information in the one tab inside room properties.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

The way you titled some of these they look like bug reports...

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:55 pm

I'll try to change that.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:09 pm

Each room has a custom Hint option. I had thought there was a default option for all rooms where you could change this, but it looks like it never made it into the user interface. I'll see if this is easy to add.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Just make a toolbar in the meantime Reed that displays the info or if you only want the room number perhaps display it on the status bar or a single button. Either way it's right there on the screen.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:15 pm

oldguy2: That would definitely work for the current room, but sometimes I'm trying to manually hook up rooms and I'm mousing over rooms to get the data needed to hook them up. When the server provides a vNum a room links to I need to be able to mouse over nearby rooms to see which has the vNum in question. Having only the RoomKey in the mouse over information means I need to use the room properties and inspect each of the rooms in the special tab which contains the vNum.

Zugg: Is there a way to update the hint field by function? I didn't see any function to update the hint field so I'm confused as to whether you are suggesting updating 20k+ rooms by hand/external program to put all the vnums in there.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:23 pm

Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 145

If would be great if the mouse hover contents could be set to a function.. Very Happy

So the current contents would be something like "%roomname%crlf#%roomkey", and that could be changed to whatever you want... Maybe even being able to get data from user-defined functions...

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:43 pm

Yes, that is what is intended. The hint will expand any variables and functions, sort of like a button caption.

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:12 pm

I found out why this wasn't in the GUI like I thought it was...it was something I added to zExplorer but never to zMUD/CMUD. Anyway, it's in the next version. You can use @vars and %functions and also the special tags:

<id>
<vnum>
<name>
<x>
<y>
<z>
\n or <br> for a newline

These are expanded *before* the variables or functions are evaluated (except for <name> which is expanded *after* the functions). So you can do stuff like:
%roomflags(<id>)
to display the user-defined string flags for room with with given ID. The <id> is expanded to the id of the room the mouse is hovering over, then the %roomflags is called with that value.

The <name> tag is expanded at the very end so that special characters within the room name don't cause problems with the CMUD function parser.

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:30 pm

Very nice! Thanks for the addition, I'll be sure to put it to good use.

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:35 am

I'm loving this new addition.

Here's my new tooltip:

%roomname(<id>) %if(%roomid(<id>), %concat("(",%roomid(<id>),")"))\n#<id> (<vnum>)\n%roomflags(<id>)

Shows:

Name of the room (shortname)
#roomkey (vnum)
shop|bank|etc

Very nice.