Zugg Software :: View topic - trouble with tell window (Raincloud's TellWindow)

Newbie Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 2 Location: Australia

Hey all

I have been stuffing around with RainChild's TellWindow and have been having a few problems due to the ugly way the mud I play outputs some channels. The tellwindow is working fine for the ususal tells and group tells : (i.e.)
Sabb tells you 'snorklewacker'
Sabb tells the group 'foo'

My problem is that the output on some channels looks like this:
[OOC] Sabb: I herd Goats
[OZ] Sabb: help! the turkey is after me!

For some reason I just can't get get a trigger to capture this. My attempts usually look like:
#TRIGGER {[@comms] %w: *$} {#CAP 1 Tells} {Windoze} 517

I did add the channel names 'OOC' and 'OZ' in the variable. I just have no idea why it doesn't work. Can anyone point out what I am doing wrong, and/or help me with a trigger that would work?

Cheers
Sabb

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2001 3:57 pm

the [ and ] sign are used as special characters by zMUD. In your case you're telling zMUD to match the range [@comms] which of course isn't what you want it to do. Put a tilde in front of the [ and ] to tell zMUD you want it to look for those characters themselves, not the special meaning.

In short:

#TRIGGER {~[@comms~] %w: *$} {#CAP 1 Tells} {Windoze} 517

Acaila

Newbie Joined: 08 Nov 2001 Posts: 2 Location: Australia

Thank you, it works. I just needed to add the { } around the variable. It ended up looking like:
#TRIGGER {~[{@comms}~] %w: *$} {#CAP 1 Tells} {Windoze} 517

Cheers
Sabb