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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:50 pm

I have a question about MXP in CMUD. There isn't any information on MXP in the CMUD manual and a search of the forum didn't turn up anything useful. The zMUD forum also gave different answers to this question, so I figured I'd ask:

can <send> include CMUD commands when used by #mxp? For example
#mxp <send "#var test 0">click to test</send>

Some threads said that zMUD could do this, and some said it couldn't. Can CMUD? If not, is it intended to be able to, or is there a reason for it not being able to?

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:54 pm

For alot of people, if this was used, people could abuse it to force other people to do things they didn't want correct?

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:11 pm

No, neither zMUD nor CMUD can do this, and they never will because of the potential security issues. Keep in mind that in zMUD/CMUD scripting you can call COM functions, which allows you to access system stuff. So allowing a MUD to execute a zMUD/CMUD script would be like opening your computer wide open to anything the MUD wanted to do to it. And that's not a security hole I'm willing to open.

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

However, MXP can set entities which can optionally be made available to the client (zMUD / CMUD / etc.). These are much like variables, and indeed there is even a variation of the entity element called var.

This is the specification page:
http://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=zmud/mxp.htm#ENTITY

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:39 am

I was wondering, could you use an #oninput trigger or an alias instead to make this work?

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

You can probably use something else, yes. What are actually trying to do? Your original example was not very clear what the usage scenario was.

[Edit: Although this is really a beta testing forum, and since MXP hasn't changed since zMUD, these sorts of questions should really be in the zMUD discussion forum, I think.]