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Novice Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

In Avalon mud I am able to portal to anyone in avalon. This is helpful when you need to get out of danger quickly. What I would like to do is have a button that enters the command LW. LW is a list of new players. These players are usually accessible by portals. I want the players and locations to go into a string list. Than I want the string list put into a picklist so I can just click which player I want to portal to.
Here is the mud output and commands. I am having trouble making it all come together.

1220h, 1169m e({-}) lw
Behold! A list of those not yet accustomed to the ways of Avalon.
Dudexcv [At: Inside a canoe ].
Inultus [At: The Singing Street ].
Young Blackknight [At: Accolade Room ].
Adwwsfdaf [At: Grassy knoll at the centre of the square ].
Meseye, The Black Flame [At: Path entrance ].
Young Blood [At: Accolade Room ].
Young Darkfox [At: Centre of the Cassiandora square marketplace ].
Young Sadu [At: Next to the lake ].
Nepthys of Springdale [At: Central Park near fountain ].
Hobag [At: Great hall of the Academy ].
The Puma [At: By the Pool of Life ].
Nadania [At: Central chamber of collegiate learning ].
1220h, 1166m e({-})

The players names are almost always
Young Blah
Blah of whatever
Blah

and my commands to portal to target are

ls portal <@target>;enter portal;close portal

Novice Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

I should have explained what I have written so far. I have 3 triggers that add name variables to stinglist. I dont really need to be concerned with a variable for location. This is not really important.I have these triggers turning on and off at correct times. Now, how do I get this stringlist into a picklist and how do I clear the variable list when Im finished. I cant seem to figure this part out. My stringlist variable is LWTARGET.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Picking out the names to make the list is the hard part, I'm glad you've already got that solved. Once you have your list completed, this set of commands should allow you to pick one, portal to it, and then clear the list:

ls portal %pick( "p:Pick someone to portal to", "o:1", @LWTARGET);enter portal;close portal;#VAR LWTARGET {}

It's intended to be run from a trigger (the one that indicates you've received all the names), alias, macro (#KEY), or button. You can also use it directly from the command line, by adding the <> to force evaluation of the %pick function.

LightBulb
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Novice Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Thanks Lightbulb, this was extremely helpful. I can think of many more uses for this application.