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GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

I looked at %selword, but it's not quite what I was looking for (being limited to just one word). Is there any way to mimic %selword's word completion or otherwise fix %selected's boundaries?

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

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

Sorry, you lost me there. What is it that you want to do? If you need word completion, you might want to try looking at TAB completion, where you type part of the string, hit TAB, and zMUD fills in the rest.

Kjata

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

quote:

Sorry, you lost me there. What is it that you want to do? If you need word completion, you might want to try looking at TAB completion, where you type part of the string, hit TAB, and zMUD fills in the rest.

Kjata

Hmm, seems I was asking the wrong question. Forget %selword and %selected, is there any way to manipulate %selpos so that if something IS selected I can force the selection to the first two words of the line?

The line in question is a user-modified arrivals/departure line similar to the following:

Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx arrived: 10:24:56 pm

No matter what the user selected, only the first two words of the line need to be considered. Depending on the menu selected, the user will either want to add or remove the name from the Enemies list or the Friends list.

I'm fairly certain I'll have to maintain a master list of names/lines sent to this window (so I can not only compare the selected text, but also determine what name is selected should a partial selection be made), but if I can do it the above way it'd be super.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

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

Try this:
%concat(%word(%selline,1), " ", %word(%selline,2))

This also works as the caption for a menu item.

Kjata