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Newbie Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 9

I have some triggers that send all chat messages to a separate window usually named "Chat"

I used to use do the following:

#TRIGGER {%w gossips, '(*)} {#ECHO {Chat} {(%1) gossips, '(%2)}

I also added in custom colorization but that's long and not applicable to the problem. Now the #ECHO command in cmud no longer allows a target window to send the echo to. I've been looking for some sort of alternative but haven't found anything that really works very well.

I tried using the #CAPTURE command but that captures the entire line, and sometimes chat messages are displayed after the mud prompt, and I dont want the prompt to echo with the chat message.

Any ideas?

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:17 am

You're looking for :.

Windowname:command
will change focus to that window and execute and
:Windowname:command
will execute without changing focus. So you'll want:

Chat:#say {%1 gossips '%2}
or
:Chat:#say {%1 gossips '%2}

There's no need for brackets round your %n references.

EDIT: VV Or #window, but I hate using commands that can also create things if I make a mistake =/ VV

EDIT2: Actually, there seems to be a bug here that's preventing ":win:#echo something" from working. win:command still works.

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:17 am

#WINDOW windowname {formatted text}

Newbie Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 9

thanks guys, if i have any problems i'll report them back here to see if we can work it all out. thanks again!

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:43 am

I just noticed something else that might not work properly - your %w wildcard isn't captured (it needs to be inside brackets for it to be captured to a %n variable). Could make the #echo display the wrong thing.

Beginner Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 21

Why not use #capture?

#TRIGGER {%w gossips, '*} {#cap Chat}

edit:
if it always stars on a new line i would also put a carrot in the trigger

#TRIGGER {^%w gossips, '*} {#cap Chat}

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

As he said it does not always start on a new line and he does not want the prompt to be placed in the other window.

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:25 pm

Edited my script above, should work fine now.

Newbie Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 9

This is the setup that I've found works best.

#Trigger {%w gossips, '(*)} {:Chat:#say {%ansi(green)%1 gossips, '%2}}

Thanks Fang Xianfu for the direction