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Topic: #DBPUT - Can't auto add to end? |
MrCheviot
Replies: 2
Views: 4495
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:44 pm Subject: #DBPUT - Can't auto add to end? |
Hahaha.. clearly, hadn't heard of #NEW. Guess I was missing something here, although not sure how I missed something so obvious.
Thanks.
-MrC |
Topic: #DBPUT - Can't auto add to end? |
MrCheviot
Replies: 2
Views: 4495
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:58 pm Subject: #DBPUT - Can't auto add to end? |
Having another issue w/ #DBPUT today..
If I create a blank database (db), the first available record will be 0db. So I can #DBPUT 0 @datarec.
If I want to add a second record, it's #DBPUT 1 @da ... |
Topic: #DBPUT Overwriting records |
MrCheviot
Replies: 0
Views: 2990
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:03 pm Subject: #DBPUT Overwriting records |
I ran into this problem with an internal DB that I had been using for months, figured it may have gotten corrupted over time so I made a new (clean) DB. Things were working fine but ran into the probl ... |
Topic: #psub and #sub on ansi patterns |
MrCheviot
Replies: 12
Views: 11317
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:50 pm Subject: #psub and #sub on ansi patterns |
#REGEX {^(\033.+m.+)?(\033\[51m(?:.+)?)(\*)((?:.+)?\033.+m.*)?} {#sub {%concat(%1,%2, %ansi(white),"A&q ... |
Topic: Moving Window Focus |
MrCheviot
Replies: 8
Views: 8870
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:26 pm Subject: Moving Window Focus |
Nice.. +.2 works great for me. Hadn't thought of using alarm to delay it.
-MrC |
Topic: Moving Window Focus |
MrCheviot
Replies: 8
Views: 8870
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:16 am Subject: Moving Window Focus |
Uhm.. this doesn't work? In an alias both in main session settings and subwindow settings.
#alias mainWinFocus {#win %item(%names,1)}
#win subWin <send href="mainWinFocu ... |
Topic: Moving Window Focus |
MrCheviot
Replies: 8
Views: 8870
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:37 pm Subject: Moving Window Focus |
First, this isn't about using ":" to shift command focus. I know how to do that, as it's useful when clicking on buttons in secondary/status windows to have a command executed in the main window.
M ... |
Topic: Access to mapper 'pathcost' ? |
MrCheviot
Replies: 2
Views: 4097
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:01 pm Subject: Access to mapper 'pathcost' ? |
When you want to go from RoomA to RoomB, you can use a couple of commands to have the mapper give you the shortest path, e.g. %pathfrom(RoomA,RoomB). This uses the mappers internal (?) routine to figu ... |
Topic: psub help |
MrCheviot
Replies: 2
Views: 4473
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:45 pm Subject: psub help |
^Your * ($dam:{@Dam_in}) ($target:*)[!.]$
Right now, you get $dam and $target as local variables. You can put empty ()'s before the $ to capture an empty variable (think it would be %3 in this case ... |
Topic: Settings vanishing again |
MrCheviot
Replies: 8
Views: 9779
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:33 am Subject: Settings vanishing again |
Nod.. in my UI rant (I think) I mentioned that perhaps the ability to save multiple backups would be good in case this happens, since it's usually sometime /after/ the loss occurs that you actually no ... |
Topic: Settings vanishing again |
MrCheviot
Replies: 8
Views: 9779
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:16 pm Subject: Settings vanishing again |
I've personally found on my setup that closing the program from that dialog makes things worse (couple system freezes). I also had a problem with things vanishing, and while I have no hard proof or an ... |
Topic: Settings vanishing again |
MrCheviot
Replies: 8
Views: 9779
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:59 pm Subject: Settings vanishing again |
Just curious - have you had to kill the CMUD process recently, or have you had the 'fatal app' error appear that lets you close the program or continue to use it? Basically anything that may qualify a ... |
Topic: Scope only variable |
MrCheviot
Replies: 4
Views: 4988
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Forum: zMUD General Discussion Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:26 pm Subject: Scope only variable |
Keeping track of variables in ZMUD can become a bit messy if you pay no attention to such things and have several scripts or classes running.. especially if you're using things other people may have w ... |
Topic: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
MrCheviot
Replies: 12
Views: 15581
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:21 pm Subject: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
Replying to rest of Zugg's List:
1,2) See above posts..
3) Again, given the infinite number of package combinations that different people might have, there isn't any good way to save these defau ... |
Topic: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
MrCheviot
Replies: 12
Views: 15581
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:42 pm Subject: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
New Hacker Dictionary:
munge /muhnj/ /vt./
1.
They both work, but sense I was using it in a derogatory sense.. Can we get back to the issue at hand though?
Fang re: your tab comment, I th ... |
Topic: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
MrCheviot
Replies: 12
Views: 15581
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:37 am Subject: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
Exactly - I have a much fresher view into the UI and what would make sense to someone looking at the UI and editor for the first time. You can't tell me that right click in the left pane working and r ... |
Topic: [2.18] Bug: Selecting Script Packages for Default |
MrCheviot
Replies: 2
Views: 3921
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:57 am Subject: [2.18] Bug: Selecting Script Packages for Default |
Okay, I' was trying to go through suggestions one at a time, but I can't begin to express my frustration with this. In my testing I removed the English packages from default, got a default package cre ... |
Topic: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
MrCheviot
Replies: 12
Views: 15581
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:33 am Subject: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
1) The font settings are in the Preferences "Style" page. ...
Okay, I' was trying to go through suggestions one at a time, but I can't begin to express my frustration with this. In my testing I rem ... |
Topic: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
MrCheviot
Replies: 12
Views: 15581
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:13 am Subject: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
Done, sorry about that. On review, I suppose the export issue might deserve it's own thread to track down what I'm doing wrong or what the potential problems might be.. |
Topic: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
MrCheviot
Replies: 12
Views: 15581
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:28 pm Subject: UI Issues.. Aaaah!! |
CMUD is pretty slick. The UI is nice and there are certainly more upgrades over ZMUD than, well, problems. As someone who used to work on designing UI's I probably pay a bit more attention to the beha ... |
Topic: String lists and special characters... |
MrCheviot
Replies: 15
Views: 15787
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:27 am Subject: String lists and special characters... |
I've always had better luck capturing odd/complex strings with #REGEX vs. #TRIGGER. Not sure if it's just me or a limitation of the conversion process...
I worked on this a bit with Charneus, and a ... |
Topic: Help with #Find please |
MrCheviot
Replies: 2
Views: 4820
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:01 pm Subject: Help with #Find please |
In my experience, #FIND needs both the room and description to match up (not sure about exits). You may need to setup a #TAG trigger to get it to work right.
Here's a test.. goto a room on the map ... |
Topic: Best Practice? Temporary data storage in database (or db-like) setup |
MrCheviot
Replies: 4
Views: 7118
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:44 pm Subject: Best Practice? Temporary data storage in database (or db-like) setup |
This is pretty cool:
#va dr_db {}
#va recA {}
#va recB {}
#addkey recA field1 "valueA1"
#addkey recA field2 "valueA21|valueA22|valueA23"
#addk ... |
Topic: Best Practice? Temporary data storage in database (or db-like) setup |
MrCheviot
Replies: 4
Views: 7118
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:34 pm Subject: Best Practice? Temporary data storage in database (or db-like) setup |
Interesting... I've read that Lua is fast (no experience with it myself), but after looking at it..
We'll use the term dictionary where an element pair has a key and a value.
Wouldn't that make ... |
Topic: Best Practice? Temporary data storage in database (or db-like) setup |
MrCheviot
Replies: 4
Views: 7118
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Forum: CMUD General Discussion Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:52 pm Subject: Best Practice? Temporary data storage in database (or db-like) setup |
My need is for a quick, flexible way of creating/storing/retrieving data from a database-like setup/structure. My own tests in ZMUD showed that it was better to use an external database vs. the intern ... |
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