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Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 8:24 pm

Create a toggle button although any sort seems to work for this example.

save settings

Export the settings.

Now import them.

You now have two sets of buttons. Alias', triggers etc. are not duplicated.

Zaf

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Sorry, Zaf, this is normal. Aliases are normally identified by their names and triggers by their patterns, so if your import matches an existing setting it will either overwrite it or be ignored. Either way, you'll only end up with one. Buttons, however, are normally identified by number and the export/import routine will assign them button number zero. Button number zero is assigned to the next UNUSED number and always creates a new button. Hence the duplication.

LightBulb
Senior Member

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 9:30 pm

It still seems like a bug

Zaf

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

You might suggest to Zugg about not assigning this buttons the number 0. However, I do see a case for doing this being the way it is as it alows for easier script sharing among friends.

Kjata

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Whether or not it's a bug, most of us don't make a practice of exporting and then importing the same settings, so we'll never encounter it. It's the kind of problem that only affects someone who deliberately goes looking for it.

LightBulb
Senior Member

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 9:32 pm

I export my setting simply because of the fact that zmud corrupts its own data files on a regular basis!

It is the safest way to keep an uncorrupted setting file.

Zaf

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 11:18 pm

I too have been fearful of the corrupted settings files, but that seems to be far less common than it used to be.

My solution. Every single Trigger, Alias, Button, Status Bar Thingy, that would be everything is entered into zMud through Script Files. I think I have 15 different files that make up everything.

Periodically I start a new character and reload everything.

"But what about Variables I need to keep across sessions?", I hear you cry.

Easy, save them to a file - I keep like things together, so I probably have 10 or 12 save files. I do it when I change them and put them back before I use them.

Works for me, for you? Perhaps?

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Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 9:43 am

That is a lot of effort just to get round the bugs in the zMud import/export functions and to keep backups of the data files the application itself corrupts.

If the app didn't corrupt its own data files the need to keep backups would not be such a high priority in the first place, but since it does corrupt its own data files and there is an import/export function, the import/export should work. This is not the only bug in the import export function and after all it is not difficult to test the differences between text files and therefore test the function works.

Zaf

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Just add a step to your routine.
Save settings (?)
Export settings
Clear settings
Import settings

LightBulb
Senior Member