Zugg Software :: View topic - [303B1a] (and previous) How do I get rid of a map?

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:49 pm

Deleting the setting in the Editor does not get rid of the map. Even if a forced save is done immediately after the deletion. As soon as the CMUD session is reloaded, the setting is re-created, and the map is loaded again. This is true for the other versions of CMUD (and zMUD AFAIK), too, though they don't use the object mechanism. From my experiments I've found that the only way the map will not load is if the file that contains it is deleted or renamed. That doesn't prevent a map from being loaded, though. What will happen then is that a blank map will be created. That doesn't mean that there isn't a way. It means, to me, that it is either not documented or I missed where it is documented.
While on the subject I'll ask this question: Why does clicking on File|Exit on the map window dismisses the map and prevents that or any other map from being loaded? The only way I can load a new map is by using the File|Open mechanism. Using Exit removes mapping for the session entirely, not something that it is intuitively obvious.

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:22 pm

Actually, File|Exit should be intuitively obvious, considering that most programs use File|Exit to exit the program, not close the window you are working in. For instance, in CMUD itself, you have Close Window and Exit under File. Now, which would you use to close out your session? Which would you use to exit CMUD?

Perhaps there could be a Close command added under the Mapper's File menu, though. That might make things a bit better. As for getting rid of a map, have you tried unchecking the 'autoload at startup' or whatever it is in the map itself, #SAVEing it, deleting it, and starting again? Alternatively, you may have to reset the session layout.

Charneus

Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:36 pm

The mapper is not a program (a master one, at any rate, since any piece of executable code could be called a program), it is a CMUD service. Even if it weren't so, exiting a program does not normally bar one from re-activating it. Image clicking on File|Exit on the CMUD main menu and never again be able to use it until you rebooted the system or taken some other drastic measure.
As to the things I've tried out, they have been many and I don't recall them all, so I will keep track of what I tried. Not wanting to load the map shouldn't be a crusade, it should just be a matter of clicking on a setting, and again, clicking on a setting when one wants it back. Something not involving reloading CMUD.

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:04 pm

This is easy. When the map is open, just click the Map button in the toolbar again to close it. That will close the map window. Then turn off the auto-load option for the map object. Then exit CMUD and it will save your layout.

The map window is only opened when it gets saved to your window layout in an opened state.