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Apprentice Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 186 Location: USA

First time using a database for zmud. I made one field "name" and I am adding names of thieves to the list. Is there anyway for ZMUD to automatically color those names in the mud if the name appears on screen?

Magician Joined: 24 Feb 2001 Posts: 342 Location: USA

sure, if you don't mind the processing overload. You have to open the database manually first, and this is assuming 'name' is the first field in the database, and you don't have any duplicates.

#tr {(%w)} {#if (%find(%1)) {#pcol ~#445566 %x1}}

replace 445566 with your favorite RGB color. There are a couple of other color formats, i.e. "~#445566" could be replaced with "red". see the helps for details. also, depending on what version you have, you may or may not need the ~ and you may or may not want to replace the '#' with a '$'
(i think v6.62 expects RGB colors in the form of '$445566', at least according too the command wizard 'more help' entry for #color)
i'll stop now that i've needlessly overcomplicated it

Apprentice Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 186 Location: USA

quote:
Originally posted by Emit

sure, if you don't mind the processing overload. You have to open the database manually first, and this is assuming 'name' is the first field in the database, and you don't have any duplicates.

#tr {(%w)} {#if (%find(%1)) {#pcol ~#445566 %x1}}

replace 445566 with your favorite RGB color. There are a couple of other color formats, i.e. "~#445566" could be replaced with "red". see the helps for details. also, depending on what version you have, you may or may not need the ~ and you may or may not want to replace the '#' with a '$'
(i think v6.62 expects RGB colors in the form of '$445566', at least according too the command wizard 'more help' entry for #color)
i'll stop now that i've needlessly overcomplicated it

Hmm, I can't get this to work. I have a database called thieves and there is one field called name. I put what you told me to and did not get anything

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The Database is more for storing large records with many fields. For what you are doing you should use a simple list variable.

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

To create a list and the trigger to use the list:
#VAR Thieves {%dblist( name)}
#TR {{@Thieves}} {#CW hi,blue}
Of course, you'll have to keep the list up to date by repeating the #VAR command occasionally.

It might be possible to do it directly:
#TR {{%dblist( name)}} {#CW hi,blue}