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Wanderer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 69 Location: Australia

Is there any way of finding out what the last line in a window is?

What I'm trying to do is capture certain text to another window (using C+) and then gagging the lines from the main window.

However, for this to work I need to know when I am back at the "Capture text ON" line, which has eluded me up to now.

There is no easy way of identifying all the lines in the block, so the alternative, as far as I can tell, would be a state-based trigger which starts the capture at the beginning of the block and stops it at the end. I'd prefer another way of doing this, however.

Any ideas?

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

I'm sure someone would be happy to help you, but I'm guessing that we need more information. A cut and paste of your commands along with mud output for the text you're working with, plus a line or two before and after would certainly be a great help.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

It won't work. #C+ won't capture lines that appear before the "Capture text ON" message.

It sounds like you are trying to capture a single line which is long enough so that zMUD wordwraps it. You can do that with #CAPTURE. You can gag the same line from the main window using #GAG.
#TR {This is a long line} {#CAP Experiment;#GAG}
#SHOW {This is a long line that is being used to experiment with the ~#CAPTURE and ~#GAG commands. It is intended to be long enough to take up at least two or three lines on the zMUD screen. If it works correctly, it should only show up in the Experiment window.}

Wanderer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 69 Location: Australia

OK, I think I messed up my explanation. Here is a more clear one.

I am looking at the items in a container, and they come out as a list. The list is word-wrapped, but I don't do the word-wrapping -It's done by the MUD.

What I'd like to do is to get the list of items and put it into one of my windows. The list looks like:

In your backpack you see <list of random items>
<list of random items>
<list of random items>
<list of random items>.

Now I was toying with the idea of creating two triggers, something like:
#TRIG {^In your %w you see} {#C+ items}
#TRIG {~.$} {gagalias}

...where gagalias gags all lines from the bottom of the screen until it reaches the "Capture text ON" line.

Having said all that, at this point I'm pretty convinced that this is a job tackled easiest by a conditional trigger of the form:

#TRIG Items {^In your %w you see} {#Capture items ;#gag ;#TEMP {~.$} {#STATE Items 0}}
#COND {} {#Capture items ;#gag} {LoopLines|Param=10}

I am still curious, however, as to how I could have done what I wanted to do in the first instance - that is check what the last line in a window is. I consider that very useful in general, because that would probably be a line not caught by my 'normal' processing.

Adept Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 228 Location: USA

Does your mud have a prompt?
I do this alot when capturing multiline tells/channels/etc. to a new window

#TR {In your backpack you see} {#T+ Capture}
#TR {PROMPT GOES HERE} {#T- Capture}

#CLASS Capture
#TR {*} {#CAP WindowName;#GAG}
#CLASS 0

I believe this is how the written setup would be, its alot easier making this happen in the settings window then writing it out by scratch *grin* specially when I dont have a copy of my settings around to look at, but this should give you general idea.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Try the predefined variables.