Zugg Software :: View topic

Wanderer Joined: 19 Apr 2001 Posts: 59 Location: USA

I would like to be able to GAG out a room's description from display in the main window, and capture it to a seperate one. I was wondering if there is a clever way to do this.

Regards
Marts

Magician Joined: 25 Oct 2000 Posts: 461 Location: USA

The easiest way to accomplish this is if the room description is or can be made a different color from the room name, objects/mobs in a room, prompt, etc. Then it is a matter of simply making an ANSI trigger to capture any text in that color, and redirect it to another window. If you can't control the colors in this manner, I can only imagine how to do it (it becomes significantly more complex).

Wanderer Joined: 19 Apr 2001 Posts: 59 Location: USA

I tried making a trigger:

#tr {{%roomname()}} {#show fired}

to see if that would capture the room name, but it only seemed to work in one specific room.

Any ideas ?

Regards
Marts

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Since your using the automapper you can do what you want through the onroomenter and onroomcreate aliases, but the display would be jumpy. Existing rooms would better be served through an #ONINPUT trigger with a pattern of ^%t$, but if you frequently key ahead a number of directions then triggering would be off. So the best way is to combine them.

Script is untested, you didn't give anything to test with!:

#CLASS {DescCap}
#ALIAS MakeDescCapTrigger {DestDesc=%roomdesc(@DestRoom);#EXEC %concat("#TR Room",@DestRoom," {^",%word(@DestDesc,1,%crlf),"$} {#GAG;#CAP} DescCap");#EXEC %concat("#COND Room",@DestRoom," {} {#GAG;#CAP} DescCap {looplines|param=",%eval(%numwords(@DestDesc,%crlf)-2),"}");#EXEC %concat("#COND Room",@DestRoom," {} {#GAG;#CAP;#UNTRIGGER Room",@DestRoom,"} DescCap")}
#ALIAS onroomenter {#IF (%nextdir!="") {DestRoom=%roomlink(%roomnum(),%nextdir));#IF (DestRoom=-3) {DestRoom=%roomnum()};#IF (DestRoom>-1) {MakeDescCapTrigger}}}
#VAR DirConv {nnsseewwuuddnwhnejswksel}
#VAR DestRoom {} {}
#VAR DestDesc {} {}
#ONINPUT "DirCap" {^({@DirConv})$} {#IF (%inwalk="") {DestRoom=%roomlink(%roomnum(),%db(@DirConv,"%1"));#IF (DestRoom=-3) {DestRoom=%roomnum()};#IF (DestRoom>-1) {MakeDescCapTrigger}}}
#CLASS 0

The reason I didn't actually use the %t (direction) wildcard is because it picks up short names and zMud character abbrieviations, but does not pick up long names. If your current setup sends long names in places simply add them to the DirConv variable. Also since you didn't specify a window to capture to it simply captures to the editor, fill in a name for the #CAP commands if you want. It will not capture rooms that are being created because it doesn't know what to look for. You can use the onroomcreate alias to do that with #GAG -x, but you will have display jump.

Wanderer Joined: 19 Apr 2001 Posts: 59 Location: USA

Hmm it didn't seem to work.

I will post a mud output log shortly, if you are willing :)

Would I be right in saying that this script would only work with macro input from the keyboard, and not regular keyboard input ?

Regards
Marts

Wanderer Joined: 19 Apr 2001 Posts: 59 Location: USA

Below is a typical little walk few a few rooms. It sends "You ride South" or "You fly South" if you are riding or flying, directly after the prompt and before the room name.

Thanks for the help
Marts