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Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Is there a way to turn off the echo on a case-by-case basis? I don't want to turn off global echo, just in specific triggers.

Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 108

Well, I don't know of a way to specifically disable the local echo of a trigger's output, but there are ways to send output without echos.

First, if you are simply sending some command to mud, and don't need to parse or evaluate it, you can use #SENDRAW. Having a trigger like, "You are thirsty." with a value of "#Sendraw drink waterskin" will send the command "drink waterskin" to the mud without echoing to you buffer. The usefulness of that method disappears, however, if you're sending something that needs to be evaluated. If the name of your drinking container were stored in a variable, and the trigger used something like "drink @container," than that would be sent verbatim, rather than sending the value of the variable container.

No workarounds for sendraw exist that I know of. Another option would be to use oninput triggers with #gag. Doing so would allow you to gag the local echo of any input matching the pattern. The drawback there is that manually typing and sending the same commands as the trigger you're trying to quiet outputs would cause those lines to be gagged as well. as a further workaround, you could cause the original trigger to turn on (#t+) the oninput triggers that gag its output, and have those oninput triggers turn themselves off after firing once.

It would be nice, I guess, to have a trigger option you could check or uncheck, and maybe there's a simpler way than those I've listed, but I love local echo and have never wanted it gone. :)

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:34 pm

#CALL %pref(LocalEcho, 0)

Just toggle the setting as needed with the pref function

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Thank you Shalimar

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Okay maybe not. I'm trying to call that function, but it's not letting me. Tried using it in a trigger, and just in the command line, and it doesn't turn the local echo on or off...

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Okay so after some testing, #call %pref(clock,0) works just fine. I turned off the local echo in my preferences, and it's still echoing. That might be a problem. I'm not sure what's going on there, but I can't figure out that problem.

Any suggestions?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The best way is the #SENDRAW command. Llohr was mistaken in saying that this command will not expand or evaluate its parameters. The expansion rules are the same used for many other commands

Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 108

Well, now I know, in case I ever want to use the #sendraw function. Guess I was confused by the whole: "To send raw text to the MUD" thing.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Vijilante that is ultra awesome, thank you very much!

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 5:45 pm

To send a literal string, wrap it in double quotes.