Zugg Software :: View topic - new ?: how to get a DB to list in status window

Beginner Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 17 Location: USA

is it possible to list items in a database to list in the status window?
if it is how would i go about doing it?

Adept Joined: 29 Oct 2001 Posts: 250

Your gonna have to be a bit more describtive than that.We need to know if you are going to have the actual record/field in your scripts, or if you'll need the script to search the DB, if you need it called by alias or what not. the are many ways to go about it, and all i can tell you right now is look at %db,%dbget, and %find.

Also, to get it into the status window, you will need to assign your fields to variables.

Beginner Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 17 Location: USA

this is what i want it to do:
when a specific piece of text comes from the MUD, i want it to execute a trigger that will: put a single piece of text into the status window, and then update when i want to remove the same piece of text from the status window
i figure using a database would be the easiest way to go about doing this.
i think i know how to do it.... any suggestions would be appreciated as i will probably miss something vital to executing the command properly
Thanks!

Adept Joined: 29 Oct 2001 Posts: 250

This isnt idea for the DB. The DB is really only usefull(IMHO) for large data sets, with multiple fields(ok, maby not LARGE, but you get the idea).

To do what you want, you should just uses variables(maybe a stringlist variable from the way your talking).

#TR {Text you want triggered on} {#VAR statusque whatyouwantinstatuswindow}

Then add @statusque to your status window:
#STW @statusque

As far as updating goes, all you have to do is update the variable, the status window will follow along. I dont know how you want it to know when to update, but there are several ways to do that to.

Trigger based:
Make it so another relevant trigger will update the variable for you:
#TR {Other relevant message} {#VAR statusque {""}}

Alias based:
Make an alias to update the variable when you want to manually:
#ALIAS update {#VAR statusque {""}}

Alarm based:
These are a bit trickier, and i rarely use them, but they allow you to not have to worry about mud output OR manually settings. You would also have to include this into the basic trigger initiating the variable:
#TR {Text you want triggered on} {#VAR statusque {whatyouwantinstatuswindow};#ALARM +5 {#VAR statusque {""}}}
That would update it every 5 seconds.

Anyways, this should help ya figure it all out :)Good Luck