Zugg Software :: View topic - Achaean channel capture

Beginner Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 10 Location: USA

Thanks a lot for posting your script Discordia. I just started playing Achaea and that was the very script I was attempting to write.. only I couldn't get it to work beyond one line.

But I can't leave well enough alone--I'm trying to get the mud to not only cut and paste the chats and tells to another window, but to read them outlout to me as well. Not just to read them outloud, but to only read -part- of the text outloud. I downloaded the plugin Mudreader, and saw that it supported the 'premium' AT&T voices that I had purchased, and attempted to modify Discordia's script to do this. Here's a sample bit of chat text from Achaea:

(Newbie): Alekhin says, "It was just rats but cruxsola picked it all up...do i drop them if i log out?"

I modified Discordia's script by adding paranthesis to here trigger:

#TRIGGER {^~(*~)~:*}

became

#TRIGGER {^~(*~)~:(*)}

The idea was to assign all of the text in the (*) wildcard to the %1 parameter, and to add carefully placed #SPEAK %1 lines to the script. But this caused zMUD to simply read out the person's name, and to ignore the rest of the string. I guess that zMUD likes to parse things into separate parameters, dividing things up by white spaces. Where the trigger was a {*}, I figured that I wanted to have it read the whole trigger, and wrote in a #SPEAK %trigger accordingly. This did not quite work out as I had expected either--both the first and second lines were read outloud... all of them. Interestingly enough, all lines of text beyond two were entirely ignored. I don't know why.

I'll cut and paste Discordia's script here with my modifications.

#CLASS {chat}
#CLASS 0
#CLASS {chat|chattrig}
#TRIGGER {^~(*~)~:(*)} {
#MAKEWINDOW chat "scrolling=yes|align=top|tight=chat"
#VARIABLE lineend {%rightback( %trigger, 1)}
#IF (@lineend = %char( 34)) {
#SPEAK %1
#CAPTURE chat
#GAG
} {
#T+ chattext
#T- chattrig
}
}
#TRIGGER {^~<~<*~>~>~:(*)} {
#MAKEWINDOW chat "scrolling=yes|align=top|tight=chat"
#VARIABLE lineend {%rightback( %trigger, 1)}
#IF (@lineend = %char( 34)) {
#SPEAK %1
#CAPTURE chat
#GAG
} {
#SPEAK %1
#CAPTURE chat
#GAG
#T+ chattext
#T- chattrig
}
}
#CLASS 0
#CLASS {chat|chattext}
#TRIGGER {*} {
#VARIABLE lineend {%rightback( %trigger, 1)}
#IF (@lineend <> %char( 34)) {
#SPEAK %trigger
#CAPTURE chat
#GAG
} {
#SPEAK %trigger
#CAPTURE chat
#GAG
#T+ chattrig
#T- chattext
}
}
#CLASS 0

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

#TRIGGER {^~(*~)~:(*)} {

The first (*) is %1 the second (*) is %2 now I don't use that plugin but here are some things to try

#SPEAK %1 %2
#SPEAK {%1 %2}

Beginner Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 10 Location: USA

I got it working. I'm such an idiot. I'm so careless, I shouldn't be allowed to attempt to write programs. I guess that goes for writing scripts if the scripting is 'powerful' enough like in zMUD.

By typing #SPEAK %1, I was passing the command

#SPEAK Alekhin says, "It was just rats but cruxsola picked it all up...do i drop them if i log out?"

and if you read the MudReader help file, then you'll see that in order to read whole sentences, you need to enclose it in {}'s.

#SPEAK {%1} fixed everything. I'm not sure why #SPEAK %trigger was completely unbothered by this, but I altered the {*} pattern to {(*)} to store it in a parameter and switched #SPEAK %trigger to #SPEAK {%1} and it's working beautifully.

This is pretty neat having the channels read to me. Now I'm going to see how I can get other parts of the mud to do this too...

Newbie Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 8

-nevermind wrong post-

Wanderer Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: USA

ummm.... why doesn't anyone do it the easy way????

Do this:

#TRIGGER {You tell %1} {#CAPTURE TELLS}

#TRIGGER {%1 tells you} {#CAPTURE TELLS}
----------------------------------------------------
fiery wrote this... this DOES capture multi line tells... always has worked with me for any mud ive played...

Newbie Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 8 Location: USA

Wow, I'm glad everyone has liked and been able to mod the code to their personal liking. The prompt that comes up, you'll have to modify your triggers to keep that from happening. I eventually dropped trying to capture tells only because I liked seeing them in the main window rather than the upper window. For the most part it was clans and channels that was spamming me, not tells.

Now to trig your prompt, it all depends on your prompt. Now I sort of dropped out of MUDing for the most part so I haven't been on Achaea in awhile, but memory should serve correct and this should still work.

Newbie Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 8

***Edit**

I got discordia's script working..but I wish to send tells and say's to that channel, how do I do that..because for some reason after I pasted the script in the main window and the chat window came up I can't edit anything over there..and I"m not sure how to edit the window now?

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:49 am

Newbie Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 8 Location: USA

Making duplicate of the main trigger (~<~<*~>~>~: to * tells you) should do it. It's been awhile but I'll see if I can make an alt somewhere and give a go and post back in a day or so with modifications. It is a rather old script now. Last time I fiddled it, I added logging to it.

Newbie Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 8

thanks Discorida I'll look in from time to time to see if its up. But the problems are this I want to send tells and all chats to it. and could someone please explain how to filter it so this doesn't happen http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b272/bryock/Zmud.jpg

See all the descreptions and every thing are in the chat window how do I filter them out? and make it so they don't go there? and I'm learning bit by bit but still a newbie. Thanks in advance.

P.S. Off topic but can one tell me how to actually make the status window display my status?

Newbie Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 7 Location: ...

hmm could someone help me to get the script running? I've uploaded the chat code and it's actually made the folder on my settings, but no window pops up and basically nothing is captured, I basically copied and pasted that entire quoted section on the page before this :( So anyone?

Newbie Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

I'm catching everything with this (except the prompt, which has #T- cap in it.) How do I make it only capture the channels?

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:55 am

I was thinking about this the other day, and I don't see why multistate triggers can't solve this problem very simply.

#trig {~(*~)~: *} {cap on}
#cond {.~"$} {cap off}

You can make the cap off trigger more complicated by adding the %rightback function from the other example and stuff, but that should work in theory. Why not do it this way? Seems a bit more robust to me since it doesn't involve classes, and it's impossible for the trigger to fire outside 1-2-1-2 order.