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Newbie Joined: 19 Feb 2013 Posts: 3

Okay so I don't know why but I can not for the life of me get a simple trigger to capture the mud's hp output and put that in a button.
The output by the mud looks like so [HP: 100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]

Could someone please provide a solution or guide me to grabbing these values.

Currently this is what I have.

<class name="Gauge" id="719">
<var name="HpVar" id="720">98</var>
<var name="MeVar" id="721">98</var>
<var name="PeVar" id="722">100</var>
<button type="Gauge" variable="HpVar" autosize="false" width="60" height="23" color="red" gaugelowcol="red" gaugebackcol="#F0F0F0" priority="260" id="723">
<caption>Health</caption>
</button>
<button type="Gauge" variable="MeVar" autosize="false" width="60" height="23" color="#33CCCC" gaugelowcol="red" gaugebackcol="#F0F0F0" priority="270" id="724">
<caption>Mana</caption>
</button>
<button type="Gauge" variable="PeVar" autosize="false" width="60" height="23" color="#FFCC00" gaugelowcol="red" gaugebackcol="#F0F0F0" priority="280" id="725">
<caption>Physical</caption>
</button>
</class>

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

You are probably just forgetting to precede the square brackets and percent sign with the quote mark: ~. Some characters have a special meaning in a trigger, so to match those characters you have to quote them. Try this trigger:

Newbie Joined: 19 Feb 2013 Posts: 3

The answer to your question is both yes and no. If the value is 100 there is no space is it is less than 100 there is a space. So how would I go About handling that?

This is a direct paste from the MUD.

[HP:100%] [ME: 47%] [PE:100%]

Here is the issue now. Your trigger works but only is all three are under 100%. If any of the three are at 100 it stops grabbing the value due to a non matching pattern.

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

Are you sure? That trigger should match both with and without a space, as Rahab said. I just tested his pattern with your last direct paste and it matched for me.

Newbie Joined: 19 Feb 2013 Posts: 3

Scratch that I solved it. It's not pretty but I make 6 separate triggers for each instance so one with a space and one without for each HP, ME and PE. Is there a better cleaner way? Just curiosity at this point.

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

Yes, the better cleaner way is what Rahab posted.

EDIT: Here's something you can try: open the package editor, find the trigger, and go to the pattern tab. Copy in the text from the mud into the box there. If it says it doesn't match, there's another problem, so paste that text that doesn't match here please. As I said, I did this with the sample text you provided, and Rahab's pattern matched.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

My trigger should work whether they had spaces or not. If you have a prompt for which my trigger does not work, please post it so we can see what the difference is.