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Apprentice Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 190 Location: Canada

On the MUD I play on, there exists a built-in "run" command which uses the syntax

run 3s4wnu7e

to run speedwalks within tha game. This has the advantage of the MUD automatically NOT listing the descriptions of the rooms you pass through, cuts down on time taken to get to my target location, reduces spam, and generally keeps the bandwidth down for the MUD.
What I'm trying to figure out is a way to override (or create a new function for) the built-in ZMud speedwalking to take ZMud line-by-line direction output and generate a valid "run" command.

So far the best beginning I have seen to accomplish this ( though I have yet to figure out how to complete the function) is to use something like

@tempsw = %exec(#WALK roomnum zonename)

and then create some heavy string-parsing function to reduce multiple-adjacent directions into numerically-prefixed strings.

Even if I can build such a function, how can I then interface that with the Automapper so that I can graphically choose the room on the map and have the mapper enter in the correct run command?

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

Why not use the built-in functions? It's not difficult to replace a period.
#AL rush {{%replace( %walk( %1, %2), ., "run "))}