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hpacez
Newbie
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 6
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 Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:22 am
Scripting
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Hi everyone,
Another question regarding VBScripting: How do you transform data from the MUD so it can be used in a script, and vica versa from the scripts processing back to the command line to generate a response? For example, let's say I wanted to say "Hello World" to the MUD (as print or msgbox is not interpreted by the command line as input).
If I understand right the script has to feed it back to zMUD's scripting language and then enter it into the MUD? A technical example would be great, not really seeing it from the help files. |
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Taz
GURU
Joined: 28 Sep 2000
Posts: 1395
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:02 pm
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#VAR X {2}
#VAR X
#MSS
#MSS {x=@X:x=x+2}
#VAR X {%mss(x)}
#VAR X
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The above does the following:
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1. Sets a zMUD variable X to 2.
2. Displays the zMUD variable X on the mud screen.
3. Clears any previous scripting malarky.
4. Sets a scripting variable x to be the contents of the zMUD variable X and then sets a scripting variable x to be itself plus 2.
5. Sets a zMUD variable X to be a scripting variable x.
6. Displays the zMUD variable X on the mud screen.
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and you get the following:
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Variable: X 2
Variable: X 4
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Ok so you would expect to be able to do something similar with text instead of a number, after all zMUD variables are only strings. Yet using the following:
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#VAR X {Hello}
#VAR X
#MSS
#MSS {x=@X:x=x&" World"}
#VAR X {%mss(x)}
#VAR X
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all I ended up with was
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Variable: X Hello
Variable: X
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so it seems that text gets passed over as nothing. |
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Zugg
MASTER
Joined: 25 Sep 2000
Posts: 23379
Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:58 pm
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The & in the script might be getting confused with the "database expansion" special character. Or, the @X in the #MSS command might need quotes around it. Remember that zMUD is doing straight string substitution, so your #MSS script really looks like this to VBScript:
x=Hello:x=x&" World"
and my guess is that without quotes around Hello VBScript probably aborts the script with an error. |
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Taz
GURU
Joined: 28 Sep 2000
Posts: 1395
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:48 pm
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The above code generates no errors and generates the output as per the last code section.
How do you store quotes in a variable? |
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