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Newbie Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Am I correct in assuming the aliases section is where a script is made?
I don't see a 'script' editor or any loader, so I'm kind of confused on how to create and use one for zMUD... At first I created a new alias called test. I used VBScript as my scripting language and tried a simple script from the help file:

#VAR X 2
#MSS {x=@X:msgbox x}

However, I recieved an error when I typed test to try the alias in the game:

Error executing #VAR X 2
#MSS {x=@X:msgbox x}
Expected statement (error 1024) on line 1, column 1

Why is the #MSS required anyhow?
I thought it would be straight scripting e.g.

Response.Write("Hello World!")

or

print("Hello World!") in JavaScript.

Any help appreciated!

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The #MSS and related commands are for mixing another scripting language with zScript. So the example in the help file is showing you have to mix them. By changing the type on the alias to VB you are sending all the zScript commands to VB as well. So if you set the type to VB just write VBscript and do not use any zScript commands or functions.

Newbie Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

I see, thanks for the clarification on that... I'm still getting troubles with a simple response.write("hello world") though... Could you write the most simple verified hello world in VBScript that I could test in zMUD? Thanks again!

Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:58 pm

msgbox "Hello World!"

<edit>
for sake of simplicity just copy and paste the following into the command line and press return

Newbie Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Thank you Taz,
Now I have confidence that's its me screwing up (Cause it worked, of course)!

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:32 pm

You're welcome.

I once wrote a bigger script that worked perfectly under WSH but that I couldn't get to work in zMUD so it's difficult to know at times what is going wrong.