Zugg Software :: View topic - i need help im trying to show the direction a person flees in red

Newbie Joined: 26 May 2012 Posts: 4

(*) panics, and attempts to flee.

and with in lines 1 i have the command #psub {%ansi(red,bold)%2} {%x2}
i dont know if i dont have a box checked or something like that pleeeese help !

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

You need to provide more information. Open this trigger in the Package Editor, then click the XML tab at the bottom of the editor box. Copy and paste the XML code into your response, putting it inside [code]...[/code] tags. Also, give us a sample text from the mud which includes both the panics line and the direction line.

Newbie Joined: 26 May 2012 Posts: 4

A cat panics, and attempts to flee.
A cat leaves north.

<trigger type="Within Lines" param="1" priority="910" id="91">
<pattern>(*) panics, and attempts to flee.</pattern>
<trigger param="1">
<value>#psub {%ansi(red,bold)%2} {%x2}</value>
</trigger>
</trigger>

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

There are several things wrong with that trigger.
1) The "panics" trigger state should be a normal trigger, i.e. "pattern" type, not a "within lines" trigger.
2) The second trigger state should be the "within lines" type.
3) The second trigger state has no pattern. It will match a null, which means it will match any line, but nothing is captured, so there is no %2 and nothing for the psub to work on.

Newbie Joined: 26 May 2012 Posts: 4

im not great with triggers someone made it for me and maybe i set it up wrong
any chance you can walk me thew how to do it ?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

I will assume that you only want the "north" part in red, rather than the entire "A cat leaves north". So:

Delete the existing trigger.
Cut and paste the following lines into the command line. You can paste the entire thing at once: