Zugg Software :: View topic - Capturing multi-line chats

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

I'm using a trigger like this:

^~(Sentinels~)~: &sChanName &sChanVerb, "&sChanText"$

To capture and store channel chats like this:

(Sentinels): Someone says, "Hello!"

I'd like to also be able to catch multi-line versions of the same, like:

(Sentinels): Someone says, "Hello! I was wondering if anyone
knows what the status of this year's wilderness patrols is, since
mine isn't ready yet."

What's the best way to do this, and be able to handle numbers of lines up to, say, six, for each of a half-dozen channels?

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

Try this:

Pattern: ^((.*)):(.*)says, "
Command: #t+ cap

Class cap:
Pattern: (*)
Command: #Capture <window name>

Pattern: (whatever your prompt is)(Your on achaea yes?)
Command: #t- Cap

That should work for you, holler if it don't.

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

That appears to be redirecting text into a window, which isn't what I'm trying to do at all.

Seems like the implication, though, is it's not possible to make a trigger which captures a multi-line chunk of text into a variable, so I'll have to use a similar approach to build the text up manually line by line.

(And actually, Aetolia, but close enough.)

Beginner Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Ireland

I had trouble with this too, and the solution I found was a config setting on the mud I play, rather than within zmud - with any luck your mud might have something similar. It was something like config screenwidth 0, which stopped linewrapping and made Zmud see the chat as one long line - much easier to capture.
Kaine

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

Unfortunately I can't find any such setting on Aetolia, though that'd help with so many things. I've coded the multiline capture, but until I get another problem with this script fixed (discussed in another thread) I can't really tell if it's working yet.

Wanderer Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 83

Hmmm.... so you just want to capture and store the latest chat in a variable? Not put them in a new window?