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Beginner Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 16

Hi all, and thanks in advance for any help.

I'm running zMUD 7.21, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do something.

I have written a set of scripts for one character to auto-practice spells.

Here is a list of what I'm using now.

variables
........@spell = haste
........@action = cast '<@spell>'
........@prac = 1 (this is just a holder variable for a later trigger)
aliases
........my_practice_script = wake;eat bread;drink skin;#12 {<@action>};sleep;practice
triggers
........@spell%s&%d{prac}~%* sends title is practicing '<@spell>' - %1~% (AFK)

I run the timer, and call my_practice_script on the tick, and just let it run itself.

This works well for one character. So I started another character, and wanted to do it there as well,
but didn't want to create @spell_1, @action_1, @prac_1, etc.

It made sense to me that classes would be the way to go, so I created a class for each character, with
a different practice script for the new character.

I'd like to load a class based on which character I start running. I see that is available from %window.
So I could code one generic set of scripts/triggers, and logically figure out which character is running,
but that doesn't seem quite right.

I think I'd just like to load the particular class when I open the particular character, but I don't see how
to do that. The mud doesn't recognize me by name when I start it, so I can't trigger off of that. I'm not
sure where to go from here. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Thanks again for any assistance.

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:28 pm

i believe zMUD uses %char as well.
Its a predefined variable thats supposed to hold your charecter name.
So you just need to test off of it.

Beginner Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 16

Thanks Shalimar, I'm going to implement it that way for now,
but I get the feeling that there is a better way to handle it.

I'm looking for an improvement over copy/pasting if statements
to handle multiple characters. Sure it works, and I've always been
about functionality before aesthetics, but it seems like there is a
more concise way to handle it.

Wanderer Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 96

I had the same problem with one of my scripts, I use #PICK at the beginning to set @nick variable, but you can use %char as shalimar suggested.

Check http://forums.zuggsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30761&highlight= to see the results of what I ended up doing to implement this, it may be an alternative for you as well.

-Rappy