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Novice Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 38

Ok, I am planning on making a channel capture script for threshold. The thing is I am not sure exactly how to do it. Here is an example of the text outlook:

Sanskrista [heritage] Sorry, matey. Death isn't to be treated as a trivial
wham-bam thank you ma'am kind of event.

as well as

[heritage] Rosuav chuckles at Sair

New to using CMud and been away from coding for over a year. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:16 am

So you either have a simple word, followed by the channel name, followed by whatever, or just the channel name followed by whatever? You could do

^%w ~[%w~]
^~[%w~]

or you could use a regex to combine the two

^(?:\w+ )?[\w+]

Once you've got the triggers matching, you just add "#cap windowname;#gag" to their scripts (you might need to gag twice to get rid of extra prompts) and bob's your uncle.

Magician Joined: 25 Oct 2000 Posts: 461 Location: USA

Unfortunately, I'm guessing the solution by Fang will only capture a single line. For multiple capture, you'll have to pull a few more tricks - if you can make your channels a unique color, I find that to be one of the easier ways to go about it. Other options are multi-step triggers, where you use what Fang provided to start, then a loop trigger on *, and then a final conditional trigger on ^$ (blank line) to exit out.

I think Fang comes from worlds that let you configure everything to come at you as a single line, which drastically simplifies channel captures :)

Novice Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 38

Fang is from Imperian, and he is a cool guy.

But yah, there is two lines I have to play with.

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

It's been a while since I played in Threshold. Is there a wordwrap command of some sort there? If so, use it to turn off wordwrap or set it wider than your screen (by a really REALLY large amount, so that long lines like room descriptions don't wrap weirdly on you). This will get rid of the multi-line pain in the ass without having to make your scripting complicated.