Zugg Software :: View topic - NEWBIE ** I would like to have ZMUD match descr to names

Newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

First off I did search ( replace mud text, friend list, etc)

Found only this to be similiar and would be cumbersome for handling 50+names http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6283&highlight=replacing+mud+text
This does not work for me , but I did not try to resolve it yet... thinking that a list of 50 desc might be too long for the var.

My mud uses descriptions rather than names

MUD SENDS (colored text)--> An elderly man with a thin, crooked nose

This guys name is Finneus

What I would like to see is
An elderly man with a thin, crooked nose (Finneus)

Further since there will be 50 or so names it seems this should be done in a DB....

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Use something like this. A variable with an index key and a resolver.

#var vNameResolver %null
#alias addname {#additem vNameResolver.ShortList %1;#additem vNameResolver.LongList {%-2};#additem vNameResolver.%1 {%2}}
#trigger {(@{vNameResolver.LongList})} {#sub {%1 ~(%item(%ismember({%1},@vNameResolver.LongList),@vNameResolver.ShortList)~)}

Syntax: addname Finneus An elderly man with a thin, crooked nose
Allows for #SHOW Long name for Finneus is @vNameResolver.Finneus

Untested but the idea is there.

It creates two lists whose order is important. The first item in ShortList is equal to the first item in the LongList etc.

Newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

Can't seem to get anything working at all with that idea... so I revertted back to the idea referred to in the other post referenced above

VAR's LongName and CommonName which are string lists

and a trigger

Pattern
{@LongName}

Value
#sub {%1 ~(%item( @CommonName, %ismember( "%1", @LongName))~)}

MUD output without trigger
A young grey tabby cat prowls around here.

MUD output w/ trigger
A you~(~)ls around here.

Which does not make much sense... Any ideas?

Newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

By the way
When I change the trigger value to
#show %1

gives me no additional output.... it is as if this value is not captured?

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

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

This looks like what someone else is asking
http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6283

To adapt for you

Newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

BTW, Guinn that was the discussion forum that I linked in my first post.
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Thanks for all your help BTW... This stuff is WAY over my head

Trigger is working fine, but the output is coming out (GARBLED) but readable, but with all correct INFO

Trigger
Patter
({@LongName})
Value
#sub {%1 ~(%item( @CommonName, %ismember( "%1", @LongName))~)}

Output from MUD (no trigger)
An angular-faced, slender man patrols here, looking hawkishly about.

Output (with Trigger)

An anAn angular-faced, slender man (Solder #4)ols here, looking hawkishly about.

I changed up my VAR's a bit to determine that whats happening is... The first four letters(five characters) of MUD output are showing before trigger fires... so there is the duplication. Somehow that causes the description after the name to gte cut off as well?

Its getting close, in fact its usable at this point but I would like to post this to the finished scripts forum

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Odd, it works fine for me. This is the exact code and test I did, and the output from it...

Code

Newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

emote stands and applauds ~guinn and ~mattlofton, with shouts and whistles

It works!!!

Two final questions just to make it pretty...
What can I do to make it trigger only at the beginning of a line?
and how do I make the the output WHITE and leave the rest of the line as colored from the MUD...

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Which bit do you want to make white? The 'Soldier #4'?
#TRIGGER {^({@LongName})} {#priority {#substitute %-1 {%1 ~(<color $FFFFFF>%item( @CommonName, %ismember( "%1", @LongName))</color>~)}}}

Or the angular-faced man?
#TRIGGER {^({@LongName})} {#priority {#substitute %-1 {%1 ~(%item( @CommonName, %ismember( "%1", @LongName))~)};#PCOL white %x1}}

Btw, using the ^ at the start forces a match at the start of the line

Newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 7

#var LongName
#var CommonName

alias

Pattern
addname

Value
#additem CommonName %1
#additem LongName {%-2}
(could not get this to work as a single line command)

And the Trigger
#TRIGGER {^({@LongName})} {#priority {#substitute %-1 {%1 (<color $FFFFFF>%item( @CommonName, %ismember( "%1", @LongName))</color>)}}}

Restriction Names are 1 word only!!
To add a name type
Addname Bill Freckled, red-head boy with brown eyes

Enjoy knowing peoples names IC!

Beginner Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 20 Location: USA

Any idea why this would stop work all of a sudden?

I have used it for months then all of a sudden nothing, other triggers work but not this one...

I even deleted the trigger and re-entered it.