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Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Hi there,

I'm trying to create a speedmenu that only appears when I click on certain words.

The mud I play has ships that will display as follows:

clipper: 123456
clipper: 654321
caravel: 456789
man o war: 987654

What I'd like is to be able to right-click on the id number and have a quickmenu appear letting me board the specific ship.

Currently I have:
#MENU {boardShip} {board %selword} ""

This works fine, but the speedmenu exists for everything I right click on. What I'd like is a menu that checks what comes before %selword, and if it's either clipper, caravel or man o war then it offers me the boardship speedmenu, if it's anything else then it doesn't.

So effectively it'll take the form
(*): (%d)

and when I right-click on %d

if %1 = {clipper|man o war|caravel}
then boardship speedmenu visible (which would then boardship %2 when chosen)
else boardship menu hidden

The theory is that if I get this working properly then I'll do similar things for players, mobs, industries etc.

Any help much appreciated.

Guinn

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

You might be able to get something out of %selline. However the menu will always be displayed. I will see if I can come up with something later today when I get home.

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

You have it right you just need to fine tune it a bit.

First have a TRIGGER to start turn off and on the class.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Thanks both for the replies.

Megamog,

just to go through the code you posted

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

The #MXP I wrote was to be used seperste frm the other code.
The other code was just an example and would occoarse need to be shut off when not in use.

What you need is a whol script to get everything in order.

#menu is ok, and you could simplify it to give you a list of thing to do with the number.
However I think #mxp is still the way to go
It just gives you way more versitality and your not left with figuring out how to turn on and off the folders at the oproprite times, as #mxp works with #trigger it just leaves behind it's results.

But like you said it would take a little bit of work.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Megamog,

Thanks again. I not sure if I've quite conveyed what I'm after. The MXP looks useful, but not sure if it gives the flexibility I'm after, the problem being that the trigger will always fire and underline words (which would look messy if used in bulk) and each MXP tag gives only one behaviour.
I agree MXP has many uses, but this time it's not something I want to go for.

Using triggers to open/close the speedmenu classes would be a bit messy too, as if there were ships, monsters, merchants in the same room then it'd open all 3 classes when I'd only ever click on one. Also it'd be near impossible to close them at the right time.

Anyways, after a bit of testing it seems that the problem boils down to whether I can use predefined variables (i.e. %selline and %selword) in expression triggers. The reason being that I only want my speedmenus to react to the word or line being clicked on rather than being controlled by the mud output.

What I think I'm after is (excuse the probably dodgy code, long day at work and don't have zmud at hand to check the syntax):

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

If you will put the coices you want for the items we talked about I could give you a better idea.

ship = bord
mob = kill bash loot stab (even aliases for say: get sword bag;kill)
merchant = list buy sell drop etc...........

Like I said #mxp really does not have to many limits.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

a few off the top of my head

{@ships}: (%d)
would probably only require 'board %1'

{@primaryindustry}: (%d)
options from
%1 stock
%1 maintenance
%1 accesslist

{@secondaryindustry}: (%d)
options from
%1 stock
%1 maintenance
%1 accesslist
%1 producelist

{@summonedundead}
options from
checkhealth %1
attack %1

{@playersonline}
examine %1
attackplayer - this would then lead to a list of available skills, the list varying by which character is online, and might have a different syntax.

I'm not sure how to get MXP to throw up a right-click menu. Having it to send one command when I clicked on a word was easy enough, but showing the list of commands I couldn't do.

Also, if MXP is the way to go, any way to specify not to underline words, as probably 90% of the time I'd not want to click on anything, so wouldn't want underlines everywhere as I'm just wandering about normally.

Thanks

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

check the section in the help menu on "Using MXP"
they have an example that fits what you want, it goes something like this:

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Got the MXP menus working, thanks. Only problem is the menus seem to be one level deep at most. With attacks and industry maintenance there may be situations where I'd need a few levels deep as there could be 20-30 possible commands to use over a few levels.

Sorry to be awkward ;)

Guinn

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

If you just want status info without clicking, you might be able to shoehorn what you want to see into the SEND tag's HINT property. That appears to be equivalent to the Tooltip property found on Buttons, and I don't see any reason short of different parsing rules for it not to work. You just wouldn't be able to keep it all that dynamic because once it's on the screen you can't reparse it to update the tooltip.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I did this rather quickly with only minimal testing. You should be able to figure out how to add more menus and populate the needed lists.

#MENU {%if(%match(%selline,"(*): (%d)",SelName,SelNumber),%exec("#T+ SubMenus;EnableSubMenus"),%exec("#T- SubMenus;Unavailable"))} {} "" {SubMenus}
#CLASS SubMenus {menu}
#MENU {board} {board @SelNumber}
#MENU {stock} {stock @SelNumber}
#MENU {maintenance} {maintenance @SelNumber}
#MENU {accesslist} {accesslist @SelNumber}
#MENU {producelist} {producelist @SelNumber}
#CLASS 0
#VAR MenuNames {board|stock|maintenance|accesslist|producelist}
#ALIAS EnableSubMenus {#FORALL @MenuNames {#T- %i menu};#IF (%ismember(@SelName,@Ships)) {#T+ board menu;Board} {#IF (%ismember(@SelName,@PrimaryIndustry)) {#T+ stock menu;#T+ maintenance menu;#T+ accesslist menu;Industry} {#IF (%ismember(@SelName,@SecondaryIndustry)) {#T+ stock menu;#T+ maintenance menu;#T+ accesslist menu;#T+ producelist menu;SIndustry} {Unknown!}}}}

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Vijilante,

Perfect, that's exactly what I'm after. I put in the code and it worked right off the bat with the basic commands you'd put in. I'll be able to populate the rest from that.

Out of curiosity, I'd tried unsucessfully to have an expression trigger on %selword to enable/disable the speedmenus, but it never seemed to work properly.
Any idea why the matching text had to be put into a #menu command, rather than the expression trigger based on %selword?

Anyways, I take my hat off to you ;)

And thanks to Matt and Megamog too, the MXP stuff looks well worth a play with in future.

Guinn

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Expression triggers are checked on update of a variable. %selword and %selline are not actually variables and so do not cause the trigger to test or fire.