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Newbie Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

Alright, so I just got Zmud and was fiddling around but now I seem to have shot myself in the foot.

I was playing around with triggers the other day and and now whenever I try to edit my settings zmud will just hang.

I think one my triggers created a whole bunch of class files (which I don't understand at all) and that might be eating up a whole bunch of memory. I would like to delete them but the dilemma is that I will need to edit the settings.

With the exception of one or two classes which upon deletion zmud just closes, I can edit the settings but on saving everything goes to hell.

Any help would be appreciated.

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:25 pm

If you know which classes you want to keep and which you want to delete, you can delete them from the command line.

#class with no arguments will print the names of all your current classes (including subclasses).
#delclass will delete a class permanently.

Newbie Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

I deleted my class files but now Zmud freezes when I try to close it and upon reopening all the classes reappear.

Maybe I'll export what I can and start from scratch. Btw are there any recommended learning material other than the help files and documentation? Fiddling seems to be pretty dangerous and I wasn't able to find any tutorials, books, or any other newbie-friendly guides on google.

I think the trigger that is causing me problems is the following.

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:09 pm

I'm not sure why that would be causing classes to be created unless the slash is being interpreted as a path. You could probably benefit from more complex wildcards:

#trig {^(%d)/(%d)hp (%d)/(%d)mp} {#var CurrentHp %1;#var MaxHP %2;#var CurrentMana %3;#var MaxMana %4}

sort of thing.

Newbie Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

Anybody have any ideas about what has gone wrong?

Also I notice the Z icon at the bottom of the taskbar that is usually glowing green, blue or red is now glowing yellow. What does that mean?

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

That means that ZMud is in the process of trying to connect to the game. Green is for new text, blue I think is when focus has moved away from ZMud, and red is disconnected.

Can you successfully operate on the settings file in Offline mode without the freezing? If so, I would go into offline mode and delete all the extra trash that might be causing ZMud to tailspin its way into memory-hogging oblivion. If you cannot do this without freezing then you're looking at a total loss of the settings file. You can try to salvage what you can by using notepad to read the .mud file, but it's not in a very human-friendly format and you might not be able to save everything about any particular setting.

Newbie Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 7

Looks like it's a total write-off then. Thank you to all for the prompt response!