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Novice Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 32 Location: USA

Got a challenge for you people....

I've got a multi-window system set up. Text is echoed to one of several windows based on what is happening in the main mud window.

I'm trying to set up a menu system in one of the sub-windows that will initiate a command in the main window. In this case, a simple finger command...

So I right click on the persons name, select "finger" from the speed menu and I want it to execute the command finger %selword in the main window.

The problem is that %selword does not transfer, instead I get a null value for that when the echo occurs.

I though putting the value into a variable might help, but I realized I don't know how to access variable settings in another window from the main window.

Thoughts?

--Killfile

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Main window can generally be determined by %item(%names,1) so I will use that here, if you have it specifically defined then feel free to make the substitution.

#MENU {Finger} {#EXEC {%concat(":",%item(%names,1),":","finger ",%selword)}

Novice Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 32 Location: USA

Thanks! That works perfectly! Now I can complete me self aware trigger set and take over the world!

:-)

--Killfile

Wanderer Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 60

I have a problem related to this. My main window has no name at all. I've tried setting the character's session name to something, but when it loads the .lay file it resets the window name to blank, which sets the session name in the char. database to blank.

What I am trying to do is create a status bar in a child window that uses a variable in the main window. I have searched the boards and used every permutation of trans-session variable access that's been mentioned, and none of them work. I can execute *commands* just fine, but not access variables like this. How can I do it?

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

Try:

quote:

NAME

Syntax: #NA string

Change the name of the current window. The default name of a window is the name of the MUD character. With this command you can change the name to anything you want. This name is saved with the character.

Ton Diening

Wanderer Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 60

It didn't work, and I don't know why, but I'm having some new problems so I'm going to start a new thread on this. Thanks for your help.

Novice Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 44 Location: USA

About the COM, I think Zugg confirmed it is a bug.

...Edit your post, or am I just seeing things?

Wanderer Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 60

Yea, I edited my post so I wouldn't have post after post after post and make a fool of myself. What exactly is the COM bug? I created a new thread that expands on the COM problems I'm having, if maybe you're willing to look at that one so I understand? :-)