Zugg Software :: View topic - alias trouble

Beginner Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Norway

Hi

Is there any way of sending a command to the mud when the command is also an alias in zmud?

E.g:
#alias w w

When I hit w I want it to send w to the mud, not start looping the alias. I tried using ['s (#alias w [w]) hoping it would expand somehow, but then the alias w becomes only [ and nothing more.

Hope you can help!

Thanks

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368

Try #alias w ~w

Rorso
Currently using zMUD 6.36b

Beginner Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Norway

Thanks, that works :)
Unfortunately my problems are not entirely over.
I'm trying to make a set of walking-aliases. On my mud one can walk in different ways, so I need to be able to issue different commands according to which way I'm walking: run east, walk east, sneak east. Now I want my aliases to work so that I can walk in different modes by changing a variable. I've set it up like this:

#alias w @dirwest;
#math dirwest @movetype+@space+@dirw;
#var dirw w;

Now I can change what type of movement I use by simply changing doing #var movetype sneak, and #var space " ". (Ok, the @space looks odd, but Z-mud wouldn't accept #var movetype "sneak " - it would remove the space in the end, making the variable @dirwest sneakwest.)

Now this of course triggers an infinite loop. I tried using #math dirwest @movetype+@space+~@dirw, but that didn't work. I also tried #var dirw ~w, but that didn't work either. (They result in 'sneak ~@dirw' and 'sneak ~w' respectively.)

Is there any way of fixing this?

Thanks again! :)

Wanderer Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 96

Hmm... how about

#AL {w} {@movetype ~w}

Why so complicated? *boggle*

Beginner Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Norway

I'd like to be able to change both walking mode and which direction I'm walking. In other words I don't don't always want to walk westward even though I activate the w-alias... So I need the direction to be variable too.

E.g: I get confused in a maze and all the exits are switched 90 degrees. Now if I can switch all the directions I'm walking I won't get lost as easily. (change w to n, n to e, e to s, and s to w)

Sorry it seems complicated, but it's the best solution I could think of :P

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

In that case you will have to use the #SEND command.

#ALIAS w {#SEND {@movetype @dirw}}

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

A simple means to avoid this kind of loop is to use the long version of the command for the alias, and the short version for the command, or vice-versa.
#AL w west
or
#AL west w

LightBulb
Senior Member

Beginner Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Norway

Thanks for your help :)
I'm afraid I couldn't get the #send command to work though. As far as I can understand it merely sends whatever text is in a file to the mud. I tried using it with variables as suggested, but it didn't seem to do anything. (Probably because it was looking for a file with the name of the variables?) I also tried creating a file containing only the variable names and sending the file (#send test.txt), but then it simply sends the variable-names ('@movetype @dirwest') to the mud :( Am I doing something wrong?

As for Lightbulb's idea, I already tried that, but not all exits have long and short versions :/ (in, out, enter etc)

Thanks again for your efforts :)

Magician Joined: 24 Feb 2001 Posts: 342 Location: USA

i don't think the #send command is necessary. i tried this alias on my version (6.36b) and it worked fine :)
#var type sneak
#var dirw w
#alias w {@type @dirw}

it shouldn't loop on this even though the name of an alias is being sent, since its sent as the second word on a line.
for your maze problem, i would write 5 more of these alias' (n,e,s,u,and d) or more depending on the # of exits your mud uses, and a trigger
#TR {You get confused by the maze.} {
#var dirw n
...
#var diru d}

but ofcourse put the real pattern instead of "You get confused..."

Beginner Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Norway

Ok, now the circle is soon complete :)
This works fine, only problem is that I sometimes don't want to give a specific movetype and rather have the output be only 'west'.
Using #alias w {@type @dirw} the text sent to the mud would be ' west' (with a space in front of the 'west'), which the mud won't understand. :(
This is why I came up with the whole #math thing all the way back in the first post, but then again I get circular references :P

Any quick fixes? :)

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

quote:
As for Lightbulb's idea, I already tried that, but not all exits have long and short versions :/ (in, out, enter etc)

Since you name the aliases, you can easily give any direction any name of your choice. It doesn't matter whether the MUD would recognize it or not. You'll be surprised how fast you learn to make the substitution yourself.
#AL i in;#AL o out
#AL inn in;#AL ou out
#AL here in;#AL there out

quote:
Using #alias w {@type @dirw} the text sent to the mud would be ' west' (with a space in front of the 'west'), which the mud won't understand.

Use the %trim function. Or the %if function. Or the #IF command. There's lots of possibilities.
#AL w (#IF (@type) {@type @dirw} {@dirw}}

LightBulb
Senior Member

Beginner Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Norway

Ah, of course...
Thanks, you're a peach! (or any other fruit you find it pleasant to compare yourself with)