Zugg Software :: View topic - Wish-list for zMUDXP

Beginner Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

The only thing I would really like would be to highlight related brackets and parentheses. When the curser is adjacent to one, it highlights that one and the related one. I've spent many hours debugging scripts with a bracket missing :)

Beginner Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: UK

Someone previously posted "mouse wheel to move up and down rather than zoom in and out" I would prefer that to be a user preference option [from mouse right click], along with:

mouse wheel - double click = zoom map extents of current zone level / zoom map extents all levels within zone [again user preference, right mouse click]

Quick tags ON/OFF regarding visibilty of above and below levels [once again right mouse click option]

and..

Within map the ability to only view 'favourites' within stated walking range, in other words those rooms that are out of distance [user predefined, number of moves] are not shown.

Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:42 pm

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 873 Location: USA

I'll keep this minimalist, to avoid sidetracking.

Wanderer Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 96

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 226

Support in the ctrl+f find (to search through the scrollback) for regex syntax would be cool to have.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Regular expression aliases (the #ONINPUT trigger just doesn't cut it).

XML import and export of all settings.

Mapper that supports some method of outside control, such as UDP, COM, DDE, etc.

Fix all discrepancies found between importing scripts from files and entering the same scripts from the command-line.

Wanderer Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 96

Not sure how this could be fixed, but if you are using string lists with #PSUB, and more than one item in the list is on the same line, only the first one is substituted. If you can fix it to check ALL strings in the list with #PSUB that would be awesome.

Also another thing I remembered, being able to use @variables in #YESNO would be nice.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 873 Location: USA

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:33 pm

Or:

#YESNO {Do you wish to purchase @diamond diamonds?} {buy...

Always remember that variables are never expanded when used within quotes "". You have to use braces {} to get variable expansion in any command.

Magician Joined: 17 Oct 2001 Posts: 371 Location: USA

I don't know if this would be automatically implied by moving to zApp because I haven't had the time to experiment with zApp, but would it be possible for plugin developers to create custom forms? I'd love to be able to extend zMUD with completely custom designed forms, which is only possibly now by using ugly modal forms - and that causes focus issues, so I gave up on it.

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

Novice Joined: 16 Oct 2000 Posts: 43 Location: USA

* Echo the rewritten help files with usable examples. One of the things that bugs me the most is when a documentation writer puts in some abstract code sample that is neither illustrative nor useful.

* New tutorials. The old ones just don't cut it.

* Redesign the UI. Sorry, no "classic zMUD" switch. There are too many quirks and nonstandard behaviors; loveable as they are, they confuse the newcomer.

Newbie Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 2

Ditto that for more support for novice users. I know that there are a lot of hardcore programmers out there, but more illustrative examples and some more tutorials would be great.

Also, better support in AutoMapper and zMapper for IRE games would be GREATLY appreciated.

Also, whatever it is that makes multi-line channel capture so hard in IRE games - if there were an easier/more reliable way to do it than available currently, that would be great!

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:41 am

The best people to write new newbie tutorials, examples etc. are the nearly-newbies themselves. Old hats at zMUD will have much less of an idea of what it is that confuses newbies so much.. So make a list of examples, please, suggest new things we need tutorials on, make notes when you read them about which bits are outdated, or confusing, and so on.. Report them to Zugg, and you're much more likely to get those updated Tutorials..

Maybe we need to have a usability study..

Whats IRE?

Lady C.

GURU Joined: 28 Sep 2000 Posts: 434 Location: USA

Iron Realms Entertainment*

I agree with Castaway. What seems obvious to me, may be the most confusing to a newbie. Us "old hats" need help realizing what it is that is confusing the average newbie.

Perhaps we should start another topic about the inadequacies of the documentation.

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:25 pm

A #sub that works correctly when wrapping lines.

Beginner Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 28

I would like more customization for the mapper function, rather than paragraph mode (where we specify what paragraph is what), mainly this is for my Chinese MUD, where zMUD is unable to determine paraph in multi-byte language because they do not use . , instead they use ．，
maybe a method of specifiying the formate of a paraph would help.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Novice Joined: 16 Oct 2000 Posts: 43 Location: USA

Without necessarily volunteering to be the documentation person, give me a month to finish my current book project. Then I'll come back with some observations and maybe even some helpful suggestions. Then it's up to Zugg. :)

Beginner Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 25

I'de like to see something deal with server side linewrap.

I've seen a few really basic clients ignore linewrap before, shouldn't be so hard.

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:45 am

What do you mean by "deal with" ? Unwrap so the client can rewrap to local display, or what?

Lady C.

Beginner Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 25

Hate seeing all the incoming text fill up only half my Zmud window because the mud sends wierd wraps. Cerberus and a few ther tiny clients manage to ignore the mud's newline command completely and thus, fill the entire window with type.

Wish I could explain it better.

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

Can you change the wrap column in your MUD, Aesir? Setting that to a high number will allow ZMud to handle the wrapping since the MUD isn't likely to send you a line that long.