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RobMacAF
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Joined: 09 Jun 2002
Posts: 186
Location: USA
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 Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:20 pm
Auto Dragging
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In my mud you can drag someone but everytime you must type something like "drag betsy south". I want to make a trigger that will turn its state on when I type drag betsy. It will save betsy into a varible called DragName. Then from then on when i go in a direction N|S|E|W|North|South|East|West|Go door|Out|Go bridge it will automatically parse to drag betsy north, etc.
I have it layed out what I need for it to do just don't have a clue yet how to do it. Also, is there anyway to make this work with the numpad movement. The only thing I can come up with is when I type drag betsy, the name goes to variable. Then it turns the state of the drag trigger on. While it is on it will check for me to type N|S|E|W|North|South|East|West|Go door|Out|Go bridge
and when it finds it will change it to drag betsy N, etc. When I type drag stop then it will flip the trigger to the off state and dragging will stop.
I am thinking this is pretty simple but it has been so long since I have actually used ZMud coding and I know my code might not be very fast if I attempt it. Please let me know. Thank you |
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RobMacAF
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Posts: 186
Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:33 pm
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would this work....
I will have a trigger that will detect when I type drag name
#TRIGGER {drag %w} {<CHANGE THE STATE OF THE DRAG TRIGGER TO ON. NOT SURE HOW TO DO THIS I FORGET>}
When the state is on it just does this...
#TRIGGER {({N|S|E|W|North|South|East|West|Go bridge|Go door|OUT})} {Drag @DragName %1}
#TRIGGER {Drag off} {<TURN STATE BACK TO OFF>}
Is my thinking right on this |
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RobMacAF
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Posts: 186
Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:33 pm
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would this work....
I will have a trigger that will detect when I type drag name
#TRIGGER {drag %w} {<CHANGE THE STATE OF THE DRAG TRIGGER TO ON. NOT SURE HOW TO DO THIS I FORGET>}
When the state is on it just does this...
#TRIGGER {({N|S|E|W|North|South|East|West|Go bridge|Go door|OUT})} {Drag @DragName %1}
#TRIGGER {Drag off} {<TURN STATE BACK TO OFF>}
Is my thinking right on this |
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RobMacAF
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Posts: 186
Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:33 pm
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Sorry about the double post. My computer hates me
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MattLofton
GURU
Joined: 23 Dec 2000
Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:22 am
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Are drag (character) and drag stop MUD commands or something local to you (ie, an alias)? If it's the former, you can just trigger on those commands or the text they likely generate. This trigger will set a variable = 1 (to start dragging) and 0 (to stop dragging. You can then modify the existing keypad directions to check this variable. If true (1), it does the drag command in that direction; if false (0), it just sends the direction.
EDIT: if it's an alias or something on your side, you'll have to set the variables there.
li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD |
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RobMacAF
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:24 am
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Its not a real command. Just something I was going to send to it. Drag <name> <direction> is in the game thuogh
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MattLofton
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Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:52 am
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quote:
Its not a real command. Just something I was going to send to it. Drag <name> <direction> is in the game thuogh
The principle would be the same:
#alias drag {#if (!%null(%1)) {#if (%ismember(%1,"start|stop")) {#noop this is an alias option;#case %ismember(%1,"start|stop") {Drag.state = 1} {Drag.state = 0}} {#noop this is the target to drag;Drag.target = %1;Drag.state = 1}} {#mess "Uhh, dude, you want me to drag nothing?"}
That alias will turn on dragging if you specify a target, after which you are free to use drag stop to pause dragging and drag start to resume. It does not make you do the drag action, though.
Here's an example of the macros (may need to remove the curly braces from around the key value (ie, KEY7)):
#KEY {KEY7} {#if (@Drag.state) {~drag @Drag.target nw} {nw}}
li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD |
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galldron
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Joined: 08 Nov 2002
Posts: 34
Location: Elanthia
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 4:22 am
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If anyone happens to get this fully functional I would be grateful to see it in the finished scripts forum
My typing skills are second lowest only to my coding skills! |
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shalimar
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Joined: 04 Aug 2002
Posts: 4686
Location: Pensacola, FL, USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:08 am
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i play a mus with similar dragging issues.... my solution was to rewrite the the default movement buttons to be '@style n' for example.. then all i have to do is type in
style = drag person
and i automatically drag with the keypad, you still have to manually drag through non standard exits
Shalimar
AIM: shalimarwildcat |
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RobMacAF
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Posts: 186
Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:03 pm
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Question about this. I have been working on it at home and I think I almost got it but how do i detect something I type in and not received from the mud?
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geniusclown
Magician
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Posts: 358
Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:52 pm
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This may not be the briefest way, but it certainly works well:
quote:
#CLASS {Drag}
#ALIAS d {drag @DragName down}
#ALIAS down {drag @DragName down}
#ALIAS e {drag @DragName e}
#ALIAS n {drag @DragName n}
#ALIAS ne {drag @DragName ne}
#ALIAS nw {drag @DragName nw}
#ALIAS o {drag @DragName out}
#ALIAS out {drag @DragName out}
#ALIAS s {drag @DragName s}
#ALIAS se {drag @DragName se}
#ALIAS sw {drag @DragName sw}
#ALIAS u {drag @DragName up}
#ALIAS up {drag @DragName up}
#ALIAS w {drag @DragName w}
#ALIAS go {drag @DragName %-1}
#ALIAS g {drag @DragName %-1}
#ALIAS climb {drag @DragName %-1}
#CLASS 0
#ALIAS DragIt {#IF (@DragName="") {#VAR DragName %1;#T+ Drag;} {#VAR DragName "";#T- Drag}}
Type "dragit betsy" and move around normally. Type "dragit" to stop dragging. |
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RobMacAF
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Joined: 09 Jun 2002
Posts: 186
Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 6:25 pm
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Using what you told me I came up with this and it works great...
This is the starting trigger
#TRIGGER {drag on (%w)} {dragname = %1 #T+ dragging}
This is the stopping trigger
#TRIGGER {drag off} {#T- dragging}
This is the class
#CLASS {dragging}
#ALIAS d {drag @dragname down}
#ALIAS down {drag @dragname down}
#ALIAS e {drag @dragname e}
#ALIAS n {drag @dragname n}
#ALIAS ne {drag @dragname ne}
#ALIAS nw {drag @dragname nw}
#ALIAS o {drag @dragname out}
#ALIAS out {drag @dragname out}
#ALIAS s {drag @dragname s}
#ALIAS se {drag @dragname se}
#ALIAS sw {drag @dragname sw}
#ALIAS u {drag @dragname up}
#ALIAS up {drag @dragname up}
#ALIAS w {drag @dragname w}
#CLASS 0 |
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