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Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 38 Location: USA

I trigger off of room descriptions such as "An Ancient Forest [Outdoors Forest]" and "A Road Through the Forest [Outdoors City]" and was hoping there was a way to trigger on the text where "Forest" would make a green room on the map, and "City" would be the traditional grey. Someone mentioned "%roomcol( room, [color])" as a way to do it, but i get "^ syntax error" at the first [ symbol. I don’t know if this is supported or not supported in 6.16 or if I’m doing something wrong.

any help would be much appreciated.

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GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

In practice that kind of function is called like:

Red:

#NOOP %roomcol( %roomname(),$FF0000)

Usually the result which %roomcol() sends back is not of interest so
it can be sent to a no operation command #NOOP.

Ton Diening
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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Also it takes a room number for its first parameter.

In help files it is standard practice to enclose optional parameters in []'s. Hence the brackets should not be there in actual usage.

For some examples:
#SHOW %roomcol (1)
Will display the current color of room 1.
#SHOW %roomcol (%roomnum())
Will display the current color of whatever room your are in.
#NOOP %roomcol (1,"red")
Would set the room color of room 1 to red.

If you would like a list of colors that have predefined RGB values look up %colorname in the help files.

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 38 Location: USA

Well, that's closer. It does color the rooms, but it doesn't color the room I move into. Here's what's happening.

I'm in [city]. I move into [Forest]. The room [city] is then colored green after I move out.

sigh.

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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Solunds to be a timing issue with your trigger. We would need to know if you are attempting to do this while mapping, what some output from your mud is, and what you are triggering off of to preform the room color. Perhaps then we can suggest something or some other way to do it.

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 38 Location: USA

Here's some output for you. My trigger is this ~[Outdoors Field~] and seems to work correctly, just 1 move behind :)

[H:8462/9000 V:900/900 M:906/906] [VNUM:60102] > e
You walk east.
The Great Grasslands [Outdoors Field]
You hear a loud noise in the distance, almost like a laugh. There it is
again! It is a monkey in the forest, yelling. It sounds more like a cry, a
death cry. The sound starts to diminish, as the creature dies. This is the
law of the jungle, and you must also follow this law.
[Exits: north east west]

[H:8462/9000 V:899/900 M:906/906] [VNUM:60199] > e
You walk east.
The Great Grasslands [Outdoors Field]
This section of the grasslands leads to an ancient forest which has
existed for centuries. The grass is getting more and more alive as you
approach the nature which is of the forest. You see many more animals and
different types of plants as you get closer to the forest.
[Exits: north east west]

[H:8462/9000 V:898/900 M:906/906] [VNUM:60198] > e
You walk east.
The Great Grasslands [Outdoors Field]
You hear a loud noise in the distance, almost like a laugh. There it is
again! It is a monkey in the forest, yelling. It sounds more like a cry, a
death cry. The sound starts to diminish, as the creature dies. This is the
law of the jungle, and you must also follow this law.
[Exits: north east west]

[H:8462/9000 V:897/900 M:906/906] [VNUM:60197] >

hope this helps!

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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Pretty much what I expected. The mapper only completes a move when it detects the prompt. In order to do the coloring you will have to trigger as you are and store the category. Then trigger on your prompt to color the room.

Beginner Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 19

Hey ZMud Guru's

Looks like exactly my issue here too.

It colors the room after ive moved out of a room - and then colors the previous room.

Re the final reply above Viji, forgive my ignorance, but how do i do the above?

Cheers and Thanks

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Your prompt trigger most likely is set to Trigger on Newline and not on Prompt.

Also, when the new public version comes out soon, it will have an onroomcreate alias that is callled whenever the mapper finishes creating a room. This alias is perfect for this.

Kjata

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I would suggest waiting for the next public version as well. If you can not wait for full automation then use a macro key to preform any post room creation events. I used NUM5 for years for this purpose. While in map mode it would do cleanup, and when in follow mode it would preform the normal look. The way map mode is detected is by the state of the Automapper class, read the help on the %trigger function if you want to go this route.