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Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 106

I'm just curious where this is on the list.

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:39 pm

Next year. Sorry, but CMUD needs a completely different plugin architecture than zMUD did. I know that some people really want to use zChat and other plugins, but this just isn't possible yet. Also, even when plugins are added to CMUD, you won't be able to use zMUD plugins directly...you'll need to get new versions of plugins written for CMUD. zChat will not be ported to CMUD, but integrated chat features will be added to CMUD next year so that zChat is no longer needed.

Unfortunately, more people wanted the mapper improvements first. So the mapper stuff will come first, and then the integrated chat and plugin stuff.

If you need to use a plugin other than zChat, perhaps you can post more about what the plugin does. It's possible that you can get rid of the plugin entirely if CMUD already does what you need. Or maybe someone else will have an alternative on how to do what you are trying to do.

Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 106

My plugin parses the Stormfront XML tags from Simutronics and does a few other things. I actually had the parsing kind of working in CMUD(actually played quite a few months with it) before I went and wrote a plugin in zMUD. It's not very pretty in CMUD ;)

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

With the addition of Lua, it's entirely possible to write a Lua code module (or find one that already exists, if it's a general application sort of thing you're after) and then integrate it into CMUD through a bit of Lua scripting. That's one of the real advantages of Lua scripting: the easy integration of third party libraries.

Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 106

I did everything in MudInput which was key, even the Parse function in the plugin would display stuff on the screen and then remove it like #GAG(though not nearly as bad as the ridiculous set of triggers I had, heh). I can't do this with Lua can I? I really needed to do everything at that step, to make it work and look how I wanted. I also have a bunch of other stuff I'm working on and going to add to my plugin. So I can continue to use zMUD and and then make the needed changes when plugins are added to CMUD.

Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:30 am

There isn't any issue in CMUD 2.x with #GAG displaying the text anymore. And since full v2.x added the support for undefined tags, it would be much better to just write your XML stuff using normal MXP triggers in CMUD.

As I said, plugins are not going to be compatible between zMUD and CMUD anyway. So you might as well just write it in CMUD using the native packages (and Lua stuff if needed).

Support for parsing XML MUDs directly (like StormFront) is one of the reasons people should be upgrading to CMUD in the first place.

Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 106

There's support for <tag />'s now? EDIT: I see they are supported now.

Even if they aren't compatible, not going to be hard to make it work with CMUD. All the stuff I wrote barely has to do with API functions, just get called.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

What about the MudReader plugin you host Zugg?
I use that quite extensively on a MUD that allows multiplaying (up to 3 at once online) and I use that to tell me of ultra important events I might miss if it was text only (even a #ECHO can be missed when you've got 20+ lines scrolling past your window every 2 seconds). It's one of the main reasons I've yet to truly switch from zMUD to CMUD for my mudding needs.