Zugg Software :: View topic - tell the time that someone sent me a tell

Wanderer Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: USA

hello, i would like zMUD to tell me the time and capture the tell in
the same window.

heres an example of the tel...

Arcteria tells you '+-Nogoth harn-+ and shift :)'

i know to use %1 for the name, and %w for the actual tell inbetween the ' ''s. i would perfer the time in the front but anything is fine. thanks

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

No, actually you don't want to use %1 for the name or %w for the tell. %w will only match alpha characters, which doesn't include spaces. That makes it a good choice for the name, which should only be one word, but not for the tell which will often contain several words. The correct wildcard for the tell is *.

This is simplest if you use the #CAPTURE command which has the added benefit of preserving the colors from the MUD. Some people prefer the #WINDOW command, so I'll illustrate both methods.

#CAPTURE method
Pattern: %w tells you '*'
Value:
:Tells:#SHOWP {%time( hh:nn) }
#CAPTURE Tells

#WINDOW method
Pattern: (%w) tells you '(*)'
Value:
#WINDOW Tells {At %time( hh:nn) %1 told you '%2'}

Wanderer Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: USA

neither works
this is what i could do before...

#TRIGGER {Tells you '*'} {#cap TellsReceived} {logging}

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

Since you have an existing trigger which works, all you need is to add the time before the capture.
#TR {Tells you '*'} {:TellsReceived:#SHOWP {%time( hh:nn) };#CAP TellsReceived} {logging}

NOTE: The TellsReceived window must be open for this to work. You might not get a timestamp on the first capture, but you should on all the rest.

Wanderer Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: USA

thanks this works great

Beginner Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 10 Location: USA

I tweaked this trigger just a tad to get it to filter chat channels in Achaea for me. It's working very well, nearly as well as a Simutronics MUD.. but it seems that if someone says something that takes up more than one line, then it fails to trigger. Is there anything I can do about this? Here's the trigger as well as I can copy it...

This is the pattern... {~(%w~):*"*"}

and what it does..

:Amunet:#SHOWP {%time( hh:nn)}
#CAP Amunet
#GAG
#GAG 1

I had hoped to gag not only the message itself in the main window, but the additional status bar info that the mud resends after after every bit of text. That's why there are two #GAG statements..This isn't too distracting, but getting rid of it would be nice. Unfortunately, it didn't work.