Zugg Software :: View topic - Suggestion for New Feature: Capture/Gag Selected

Newbie Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 8

Currently #CAP captures a line. I would like to suggest that there's a new one which captures/gag the text triggered instead of the whole line.

E.g.

{hp:100 mp:100}XYZ tells you 'hey there'.

I only want to capture/gag XYZ tells you 'hey there'. instead of the whole line.

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:30 am

#TR {(XYZ tells you 'hey there'.)} {#SUB {};#WIN windowname %1}

Newbie Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 8

That doesn't capture the colors though :(

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:13 pm

Your right.

Adept Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 250 Location: Austin, TX

Hrm. If you know that the text is always going to start with a new color, though, you can catch it all (including the color) with a regex. I believe the following will work, but I haven't tested it:

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

Hmm, in zMUD, doing "#SUB {}; #CAP windowname 1" would save the line to the window, preserving the color. But I tried a quick test in CMUD, and it didn't work. Maybe I just did something wrong, though. Anyone else know if #CAP preserves color attributes?

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:40 pm

Cap preserves colour just fine, but his problem is that he only wants to capture half the line. I'm guessing that it's a side-effect of the text-running-into-prompts issue reported in another thread.

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

My point was is that at least in zMUD you can #SUB all you want on a line to remove text, then #CAP it. I think that does what he wanted, and preserves color. And after the #CAP, I think you can even #GAG it if you wanted.

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:13 pm

Ah, I see! But he wanted to leave the prompt intact and only remove the first part. So you'd need to save the line first and print it again afterwards, which is just as inconvenient given that it might be coloured.

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

It gets a bit trickier if he wanted to leave the line intact in the main window (and logs), but strip it from the capture window. In that case, I think the best solution is to #CAP the whole line, then create triggers in the capture window to do whatever text stripping is wanted using #SUB or #PSUB.