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Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Hi again. :) Imma take over the first page of these forums eventually.

So I finished that script, and it's awesome and a bunch of people like it(I posted it on the MUD I play's main forums). I even got a thank you from the game's creator/owner, which is awesome.

Since people like it and all, I decided to make it better. Right now it displayes a whole slew of stats that it gathers over time. Now I'm making three of these displays so you can keep your main stats running and have like.. a micro-sampling or two of stats running beside it, in case you wanted to check/test something. And that's easy enough to handle. And I have 5 "copy" displays you can copy your stats to and keep them there/switch them back to your main(and updatable) display. You know, in case you wanted to stop gathering stats because you're switching characters, etc. and then switch them back because you got on the original character again.

The problem is the display itself. I'm running at 20+ variables per display, which is a lot but not *super* important(though I feel there may be a way to consolidate all the like variables), and each display is just.. a behemoth amount of script. Having 8 of them is.. beastly.

I was wondering if, say, for the copy displays, you could type 'copyview 1' or, as I have it now, 'copyview1' and have it show the only copy display coded(instead of me having to do all 5 individually with the specified variables) along with all the variables for copy displays ending in the number 1. Is there a way to use an alias to alter the variables displayed based on the command input without resorting to a rather large if statement for each instance of a variable in the script?

As a newbish side note, using spaces in alias names doesn't seem to be working for me unless the thing after the space is, in the script, %-1. Any way around that? I mean so I can use 'copyview 1' instead of 'copyview1'.

Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:37 pm

you could use the argument you are passing to the alias (in this case '1') determine which section of code is copied with a #SWITCH command

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

I don't think zMUD does support Switches. I was hoping to avoid the possibility of a series of ifs. Hmm. Even were I to use them, how would I get it to add the 1 or oher number to the end of the variable name? Like @kills1/@kills2/@kills3, etc.

Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 8:33 pm

@{kills1} works in CMUD, nos sure if it does in zMUD

If not maybe you can fool around with the below to get it to reference your variable

#LOOP 5 {#EXEC {#SAY %concat("@kill",%i)}}

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Awesome sauce. I'm using:
%exec(%concat(@,kills,%1)).

Works great. :)

So say in my script I have:

Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:39 pm

try this

#IF (%1>0 AND %1<6)

P.S. aliasname does not need to be in braces

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

I had what you have first, but still copyview all by itself was allowing the script to work. If it works like that, then it will display the stats without applicable variables(all the variables have been canged to have numbers after them, so if there's no number in the alias command, then there will be no values for the stats displayed).

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

And another problem:

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

Try using the #EXEC command instead of beginning the line with an %exec() function.

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

That, of course, worked. Thank you sir.

Still this, though:

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 5:50 pm

#if (%1=%null) {#say no go} {#say ya ya}

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Ahh, sweet. Thanks, man.

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Been tweaking some stuff. If I wanted %1 to default to 1 if it in fact is equal to %null... How would I do that? I have some code saying:

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

%1 can't be defined within the alias. Its value has to be passed to the alias. The simplest fix for this code would be to use two aliases, such that the first alias is calling the second.
To accomplish that, change your current 'cinfo' alias to instead be called 'do_cinfo' and then make a new cinfo alias like so:

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:50 pm

Alternatively change this part #IF (%1=%null) {%1=1};#IF (%1>0 AND %1<4)

to

#IF (%1=%null) {cinum=1} {cinum=%1};#IF (@cinum>0 AND @cinum<4)

that way you don't need an extra calling alias.

Feel free to also change (%1=%null) to %null(%1) they're the same but some people would say the second is more correct from a programming point of view.

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

Nethran references %1 in a few dozen places throughout that alias, Taz, not just the #IF in the first line. For your solution to work, all those instances of %1 would need to be replaced with @cinum.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:35 pm

*slaps wrists* I really should have read past the first little bit of the alias.

Nethran unless you really, really only want the one alias I suggest using DraxDrax's approach, otherwise search and replace %1 with @cinum except for those first two instances.

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

I think the easiest way would actually be to make the alias call itself, similar to DraxDrax's solution but not requiring a second alias. It would look something like this: