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Newbie Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 1

Can anyone help me?
I'm in a game using a split screen
When anything happens the bottom part of the screen scrolls up with the action and the top half of the screen acts as a "history"
Very often I want to read from the to half of the screen as I find it distracting to be reading as the screen scrolls

Is there any way to get the top half of the screen to "automatically" show/go to the latest output from the bottom half of the screen to show the result of my latest input so that I don't continually have to manually scroll the top half of the screen to get it to catch up?

Trust that makes some kind of sense.
Any help appreciated.

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

No. The entire purpose of the split-screen top half is to let you control the scrolling so you can review previous MUD output without having it scroll off the screen while you're reading. Making the top half scroll automatically every time something happens would make it just like the bottom half of the split-screen, and that would make it pointless to split the screen.

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

You might be able to create a trigger in the main session window to gather the last x lines received and store them in a variable... doubt that would work very well, but trying to be helpful.

Then create a second window above it(or somewhere else) with a push button which would display the variable's contents in the secondary window.

Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:52 pm

Here is a trick that should work:

The #FREEZE command in zMUD scripting toggles the split screen window. So, if you assigned the script:

#FREEZE;#FREEZE

to a macro key, that would toggle the split twice which should move it to show the most recently received data. Haven't actually tried it, but it seems like this should help.

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 12:04 am

its already defined into a macro Zugg: Ctrl Z

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 12:13 am

Yes, of course I know that. My point is that he'd have to press Ctrl-Z TWICE to just refresh the scrollback to the most recent text, and by assigning the double-freeze commands to a macro, he could do it with just a single keypress.