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Wanderer Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 60

I capture some lines to one of my child windows. I want to insert a timestamp in front of each one. I can't find any command that will alter a line that is already displayed on the screen, except for #color.

I put this trigger in the child window.
#trigger {^} {#substitute {Testing:}}
But that locks up zMUD every time.

Any ideas? Is there a command to alter a line that is displayed in a window? I have considered doing something like
:OtherWindow:#say {Testing: %line}
but that's probably going to fail on special characters or something. Will this work?
:OtherWindow:#say {Testing: %expand(%line, 1)}
Or will something else work? I even looked for a COM solution, but I can't find any property/method/function to access the output lines.

(I just now tested. I did
#show {#show a; #show b}
and created an alias
#alias test {#show {Testing: %line}}
and used it, and it didn't mess up on the semicolon, so I'm assuming using %line like this does indeed work. I'd still like to know if there's a way to modify displayed lines, though. Certainly, if I wanted to change the last line on the screen, I could display %line with modifications and #gag -1, but #gag has a known bug that can destroy information, and what if the line I want to modify is more than two lines prior to the current line?)

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

Just put :OtherWindow:#SAYPROMPT %time() ; before the command (#CAP, #WIN, etc) that sends the line to the OtherWindow.

If you don't actually need to know the EXACT time of EVERY line, you could probably get by with a one-minute alarm.
:OtherWindow:#ALA timestamp *1:00 {#SAY %time()}

That should be more than sufficient to tell when things happened.

LightBulb
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Wanderer Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 60

Ack, I'm sorry, I did not even see that command. Thanks.