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Novice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 31

Still a relatively new zMud user...

I'm wondering if it's possible to get zMud to capture and display raw MUD output for games like GemStone and Dragonrealms. Right now it appears to be formatting the output in some way. What I'd like to do is saw the raw output (GSL codes, other markup, etc.). I know I can turn the GSL display on and off, but is there a way I can get zMud to just dump the output directly to the buffer so I can parse the content myself?

Again I'm still new to zMud, so bear with me if my question is sort of whacky.

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:00 am

this trigger will send all gsl codes to a seperate window so you can see when they go off, if not what they do.

#TRIGGER {{a|b|c|d|e|f|g|h|i|j|k|l|m|n|o|p|q|r|s|t|u|v|w|x|y|z|A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z}} {#WIN GSL {%1 %gsl( %1)}} "" {gsl|case}

Novice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 31

Thanks Shalimar! That's extremely useful.

I think I need to rephrase my question a little. I want to see exactly what the MUD is outputting, no formatting at all. If I turn off the GSL parsing, am I seeing that, or is zMud still doing some formatting behind the scenes? I guess what I'm asking is if I just telnetted to the GS server, would I see the same output that I'm seeing in the zMud client?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

You can not completely turn off some of the processing zMud does, the parts that don't turn off are those directly defined as part of the telnet protocol. All other things can be turned off in the Preferences section, General|Emulation.

Novice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 31

Thanks Vijilante, I think that's the answer I was looking for.

My next question is about how to capture every single line of MUD output that's coming through zMud so it can be analyzed. I can easily write a trigger to capture any MUD output, but what about feeds that come through as multiple lines? My goal is to create a logging type feature, but instead of logging to a file, window, etc. I want to grab the MUD output and insert it into a database. Has anyone ever tried something like this? Maybe I should start another thread...

Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2000 Posts: 114 Location: USA

quote:
Originally posted by jennyA

Thanks Shalimar! That's extremely useful.

I think I need to rephrase my question a little. I want to see exactly what the MUD is outputting, no formatting at all. If I turn off the GSL parsing, am I seeing that, or is zMud still doing some formatting behind the scenes? I guess what I'm asking is if I just telnetted to the GS server, would I see the same output that I'm seeing in the zMud client?

If you turn off the gsl support it will show you EXACTLY what DR or Gemstone is outputting in the raw. Nothing is formatted at all.

Alan

Novice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 31

Thanks for confirming that Alan, those are the things I was wanting to know. Have any ideas regarding the second question I posted in the message right above yours?

Novice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 31

Hmm...so I created a simple trigger to fire every time anything is output to the buffer. Then I take that output and do my database updates. I seem to be having some problems with multiple lines though. If anyone has any suggestions on how to write a trigger that will capture each piece of output (one line or multi-lined), please let me know. Thanks again for all the help.

-JennyA

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:26 pm

Prefs --> General --> Wordwrap
turning off the wordwrap might help the multiline bit

Wanderer Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 70 Location: USA

> #TRIGGER {{a|b|c|d|e|f|g|h|i|j|k|l|m|n|o|p|q|r|s|t|u|v|w|x|y|z|A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z}} {#WIN GSL {%1 %gsl( %1)}} "" {gsl|case}

Is there a reason not to just use something like #TR {(*)} {#WIN GSL {%1}} "" {gsl} instead of the longer version?

(Although, I personally use #TR {(*)} {#IF (%left( %1, 1)!=q) {#WIN GSL {%1}} "" {gsl}, since I'm generally not going to care about that one.)

Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:16 am

i did it the long way so that as i figured out what stuff could do what i can remove it from the annomous array so i dont have to keep seeing it til i figure the rest out :)

Novice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 31

Okay, so with word wrap off and this trigger - #TR {(*)}, does it seem conceivable that I should be able to trap every line of text output by my MUD?