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Novice Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 44 Location: USA

I need a bit of help on a trigger I'm trying to refine. What I want to do is cast a spell only when the status line is a certain color... the only real way to know if the spell is already active is by the color - dark cyan for inactive, light cyan for active.

The problem is I can't figure out how to get the ansi code. The code I've produced isn't working out...

Trigger so far is

#TR {*(%w)%sMana~:%s%d%sLearned~:%s%d~%%s~((%d)~)$} {#IF (%ismember( %2, @badspells)) {#NOOP} {#IF (%colorname( %1) = "536870911") {c '%2'} {#NOOP}}

I'm not sure if the color code is wrong or not... any suggestions would be great :)

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

1)no obligatory MUD output to compare to the trigger pattern. Even if we understood what you want, we'd have no way to test our code against what you're seeing and so we can't help you with problems in (y)our code or your logic.

2)%colorname() is being used incorrectly. It does not tell you the color of a piece of text, it tells you the decimal equivalent (255) of a color name (red) or RGB value (#FF0000). I wager you can toss that out completely, but see #1.

3)"536870911" is the color value for "no color". Is that what you were wanting to test for or were you wanting to test for the two colors you mentioned?

4)%2 = %d (a number). Does @badspells contain numbers (ie, 1|2|4|3|4), or does it contain words? I have no idea what @badspells contains, so I'd thought I mention this just in case you made a mistake.

Novice Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 44 Location: USA

Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

Churlant, lemme take a guess. Yer trying to use the spellup code from Alhena's Aard script site?
If ya are, then I can tell ya that I posted a question about this long ago, and for some reason NONE of the suggestions on her site helped, and nothing I could get from here would work either for some reason.
http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=17315&highlight=
So, i gave up on it and am using the spellup script from Crimson's site:
http://www33.brinkster.com/crimsonhorde/zmudspell1.asp

It's a little more complex, and frankly, i fixed up a few errors in it but it works nicely.
The errors were with recasting Heighten, and in casting Harden Body on someone.

Under Skills_Self the trigger ^Your senses don't feel any more accurate! it SAYS #IF (@spellup_heightenstat="X") {heighten} but it SHOULD be #IF (@spellup_heightenstatus="X") {heighten}

And under one or more of these: spellup_others_fulllist, spellup_others_nolist, or spellup_others_yeslist harden body is missing. fixed that one about a month ago, so don't remember which it was.

Err...if I am wrong and you aren't using Alhena's script, and/or you aren't from Aard...errr...i'll just stfu now :-)
As a side note, using the spell #'s in aard reduce the bandwidth a lil and makes for a faster spellup. so you should use %4 and not %2. What I mean is that the text sent to aard is smaller, so it goes quicker. It was something I noticed when i was a 7x. the amount of time diff for a full spellup was prolly less than 2-3 seconds, but when u got a double going every sec counts :-)

Novice Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 44 Location: USA

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Novice Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 44 Location: USA

Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

On alhena's site the spellup has these 2 versions to work off.

*%e[36m%1%s%e[0m Mana: %e[36m%s%d%e[0m Learned:%e[36m%s%2~%

*%e[36m%1%s%e[37m%sMana:%s%e[36m%s%d%e[37m%sLearned:%e[36m%s%2~%

Btw, using %2 in your script i think was wrong.
It shoulda been %1 the * don't count unless ya did %* i think.
But the %4 SHOULD work from my suggestion for the #'s.....i think....

BTW, i ain't DeathDealer on Aard..so don't ask him for help :-)