Zugg Software :: View topic - Please help - How to make text appear in a different window?

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Hi I am abit of a newbie when it comes to programming and CMUD but there is one thing I need to work,

Hoping you tech peeps could help, is really important to me and would be very appreciative! :)

I want everything that preceeds the text "|1|" (not including speechmarks) to appear in a different (seperate) window instead of the main zmud window,

Have tried experimenting with #CAP,
what I did was a trigger so when "|1|" appears, it puts your text in another window (#cap), but the text still appears in the main window.
Is this feasible to do it that way? (#CAP all the time) or would this cause me lag? (because that text appears quite often in the mud I play) hehe x

Thankyouuu in advance :)

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

hi! well think i've figured this out,
am using #gag on |1|
and #cap too
seems to work a charm, if someone knows a better way please still post :)

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Don't spam the different forums. I just got done with your other post in ZMud (was going to provide a trigger but then realized it was in the zmud forums so it wouldn't have worked).

Anywho, try this out:

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Thanks for your reply,
Hey I tried doing this,
Do i just copy the above trigger text into my MUD window and hit enter?
this is what I did and it does now appear in the "triggers" section but the text still appears in same window :(

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Hm. I think "#GAGSPACE" should work, but try "#GAGSPACE 1".

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

ok in the trigger title box I have just put: |1|

and in the trigger itself I use:

#gagspace 1
#execwin snoopwindow {#print %1}

Now the text with "|1| <text here>" does not appear in main window, but it also does not appear anywhere else :( please help, highly frustrating hehe

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

(because the #gag #cap thing was dodgy, it didn't print everything in seperate window )

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

[edit] still not working :(
It doesn't capture text in new window

WISH this would work, anyone play www.mudii.co.uk and know what i'm talking about?

It's a "snoop" window, basically a spell so you can see what other people are doing, major wiz part of game.

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Yo, would it matter that the "|1|" that appears is in blue??

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:53 pm

Also, instead of using #execwin with #print, it's faster to just use this:

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Ok.
Yeah i'm doing that now, it still seems some text (about 1%) is not transferring over to the other window, and it's very confusing. Maybe it's the mud i'm playing doing it wrong, dunno.

like if the player I am snooping talks to me, I can't hear it (tells you: hi!) etc.

Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:40 pm

That makes it sound like your trigger isn't firing in those cases. Maybe the MUD is adding a space to the end of the line that you can't see. Since your trigger ends in $, a space after the |1| would prevent it from firing.

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Still dumbfounded on this,
what exact trigger would I need? *cries*

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:15 am

If you post some sample text from the mode in [code] tags we should be able to help you with that.

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Still can't see why this will not work :(
VERY appreciative of help

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Hope someone can figure it :) It'd change my gaming experience totally

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:46 am

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Works a charm :) Thankyou

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Hi again lol
The window prints all the text in blue, is there a way to make it the same colour as main window?
- Sorry to be a pest ins0mnia

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

don't worry if it's too complicated - it does work fine blue :) X

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

Check the ansi trigger box in the options at the bottom.

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

thanks for your reply.
I try checking the ANSI trigger box and the window stops appearing on |1| and appears in main window instead
I think I somehow need the right ANSI codes or something?

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

Oh, yeah, I should have read the full thread before posting. If you wanted to use an ansi trigger, you'd need to add the ansi codes for the |1|, but the easier way would be to just use #CAPTURE instead of #WINDOW (#CAPTURE preserves color, #WINDOW defaults to blue). So your code would be:

Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 21

Thanks ever so much! I will test it tomorrow.
There is still a slight problem where the text very occasionally (and randomly) puts itself into the main window - but I suspect that will just be the lag?
Thanks again :-)

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:58 pm

It shouldn't go to the main window, that means the trigger pattern is wrong in some regard and not firing in all cases. Most likely the start of line. I would remove the ^ in the pattern, at least to test it. You might need an optional %s at the start of line to match for example.

As always, code can be done multiple ways. Personally I'd stick with #WINDOW since Zugg suggests it's faster, but #CAPTURE is fine too. Just want to point out you can use %ansi() to color lines as needed.