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Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

I've been reading through prior examples but only found some for Zmud, which doesn't seem to work right in Cmud.. any help with the following would be appreciated!

Goal: When Characters is less than Total Online, color that line, and append the the difference between the two (_on the same line_)

What I've got it doing so far:

# Characters. # Total Online. <<--This shows up as I want it to.
Unseen: # <<-- This shows up in cyan, on its own line

What I want it to do:
# Characters. # Total Online. Unseen:# <<<--This value should ONLY appear if the Total Online is greater than Characters

This is what I did:

<trigger priority="12540" id="1254">
<pattern>(%a) characters. Total online: (%a).</pattern>
<value>#IF ((%1) < (%2)) {#CW "white,mxpgray"}
#MATH unseen %2-%1
#ECHO Unseen: @unseen
</value>
</trigger>

Any suggestions on how to wrangle what I've got, into what I'm hoping for?

With thanks,

Cordir

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:46 am

I would suggest %d over %a, but that shouldn't affect things...
the #MATH command is the issue here, sort of
all mathamatical expressions need to be wrapped in parenthesis, so:

#MATH unseen (%2-%1)
or
unseen=(%2-%1)

although, since you have no real need to store the value, i wouldnt bother saving it to a variable at all

#SAYADD { (%2-%1)}

that will append the value to the line

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

Forgive me, I'm very much a newbie and am not entirely following you.

This:
<trigger priority="12540" id="1254">
<pattern>(%d) characters. Total online: (%d).</pattern>
<value>#IF ((%1) < (%2)) {#CW "white,mxpgray"} #SAYADD { (%2-%1)}
</value>
</trigger>

is resulting in this:
5 characters. Total online: 5.
ERROR: Trigger "(%d) characters. Total online: (%d)." fired but did not compile

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:52 am

wrap the xml in code tags to preserve spacing and the greater than symbols.
you need a semicolon between the two commands.

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

"Code tags" ?
I couldn't find anything in the help files to explain what that is, precisely...

Again, very very VERY much a newbie when it comes to code type things.

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:08 am

the code tags are BBC code, to make things look proper on the forum.

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

When I use that, zmud is complaining about the < symbol and replacing it with " < " and is not displaying the unseen # .

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:32 am

If all else fails, delete that trigger and enter this one on the command line.
It's the exact same trigger, just not in XML format.

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

With that, I'm now getting this:

1 character. Total online: 4.(4-1)

It's not doing the math. :(

PS: I deeply appreciate the help! Thank you!

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 3:11 am

Hmmm... that should work...
Wait, did you say zMUD? this is the CMUD folder.

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

nono. I'm using CMUD (Cmud 3.34). I was only able to find references to math stuff in the ZMud forums :)

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

Here's what it looks like. (I had to add a small tweek because sometimes it's Characters and sometimes it's Character, depending on the # online.)

http://postimg.org/image/klck8aurn/

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:03 am

In that case, try this version:

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:53 am

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

HUZZAH!!
That worked!
Thank you so much for your help! :)

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 5:07 am

Glad that worked for you.
Still had to use a variable in the end, but $temp is a local variable, so it gets discarded after it is used and not left cluttering up your settings.
Don't forget to delete @unseen!

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

One last question, I PROMISE... :D
Is there a way to color format the output we've created, so that it matches the rest of the highlighting/color scheme? (Ie, so it's all that white lettering on gray background?)

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:01 am

Just add some MXP color tags:

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

I've tried the above, and got this:
ERROR: Trigger "(%d) character{s|}. Total online: (%d)." fired but did not compile

I've also tried:
#IF (%1<%2) {#CW "white,mxpgray";$temp=(%2-%1);#SAYADD #CW "white,mxpgray"{ $temp}

Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:39 am

Beginner Joined: 23 Jan 2011 Posts: 20

YAY!!!
That's it! :)

Many thanks, Oh Guru!