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Apprentice Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 103

basically i am still working on my uber tiny super automapper class.

One issue i have is there is no way that i know of to show the room name and the room description at the same time. So i have to do a glance to get the room name and a look to get the room description.

anyhow when i am randomly wandering around i get some interesting text that appears between rooms sometimes. I will put an example below. My goal is to figure out how to write one trigger which will capture the room description and only the room description for all of the below senerios. I can sort of see one way to do it, if i was to somehow write a multiline capture trigger and create seperatations based on paragraphs and then somehow just set the room description to the last paragraph captured... that seems like it would work most of the time.

Anyone have some better idea's?

before you look to closly at all these rooms. i cut and pasted several examples all together so somtimes the rooms that i am showing arn't really contigous in the game.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

It would appear that your correct as to the best method for doing it. Since you already have some triggers designed to handle portions of it I am not going to suggest a complex multistate trigger. Instead something quite simple.

#VAR TempDescCap {} {}
#VAR RoomDesc {} {}
#TRIGGER "DescCap" {*} {#IF (%begins(%line,">")) {#T- DescCap;RoomDesc="";TempDescCap=""} {#IF (%line="") {RoomDesc=%right(TempDescCap,1);TempDescCap=""} {TempDescCap=%concat(@TempDescCap,%cr,%line)}}} "" {prompt}
#ONINPUT {^{ne|nw|se|sw|n|e|s|w|u|d}$} {#T+ DescCap;RoomDesc="";TempDescCap=""}

You should be able to add that to your existing class. You will have to put #T- DescCap into your exit line trigger, and at that point it should have the right stuff in the RoomDesc variable. I am also going to include some really old script I have laying around from a project I did involving automatic mapping of a mud. Of course I was granted immortal access since I was doing it for the admin of the mud. Make of it what you will, this is only a snippet of the full script; but I thought you might like a few ideas.

Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

another idea is ansi, can you set the ansi vars on your mud? some ideas of things i do is putting strange chars in the ansi such as Ñ.

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:12 am

Question about that code Vijilante - why do you use %mapvnum(@UScanNum)? UScanNum will always be the VNum anyway, won't it (since the script ranges it from 1-%numrooms, which is the same as vnums). Will %roomexit and %roomlink not take an integer as their parameter, only the number returned from %mapvnum? Or is there some other reason I'm not seeing?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Lets say you create rooms 1-10. Then delete room 6 and 7, then add rooms 11 and 12. %numrooms will give 10, the vNums for them being 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Also, for example, you could set the vNum of the 12th room made to 387, and the first to 254. Then looking for a vNum of 1 won't work. Hence the %mapvnum function.

%roomexit and %roomlink look for the vNum as long as that is the setting in %roommode. So I have to make sure I have the proper matching values.

Apprentice Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 103

whats %line="" do? catch a blank line?

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:45 am

Yes. %line is the last line received from the MUD, and it's checking if it's null, blank.

Apprentice Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 103

can i use the state command to loop a state? if the type is set to pattern?

Ie.

#trigger {*} {#if (%line = "") {state 0} {#if (%begin(%line, "-- there")) {state 1} {state 0}}}

so would this loop state 0 over and over till the %line began with "-- there? then jump to state 1?

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:25 pm

Yes, but it'd be much easier just to do:

#trig {^-- there} {}
#cond {} {}

You also don't need to explicitly set the state to 1, since it'll move on its own once the trigger's script has finished.