Zugg Software :: View topic - Wish-list for zMUDXP

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:45 am

Ideas for #alarm:

#alarmlist - lists all pending alarms, numerically. Such as:

1) 14 seconds - sleep
2) 45 seconds - wake
3) 46 seconds - save
4) 48 seconds - quit

#alarmc (X)

Cancels alarm (X) corresponding to #alarmlist.

#alarmc 3
(echo'd back)
Alarm #3, {save} set to execute in 27 seconds, has been removed.

New #alarm option:
#alarm -ts

Activates alarm on tick timer (#ts). Alarm is permanant and recycling, and is toggled on/off when TS timer is toggled on/off.

On the topic of #ts .. a note should go in the helpfile "to turn this off, #ts -1" or something :P

GURU Joined: 28 Sep 2000 Posts: 434 Location: USA

The only thing I can really think of that I've always wanted is multidimensional arrays.

Maybe something like this.

#VARIABLE Array %array
#ARRSET Array('array1').value1 "test1"
#ARRSET Array('array1').value2 "test2"
#ARRSET Array('array2').value1 "test3"
#ARRSET Array('array2').value2 "test4"

#SHOW @Array('array1').value1 output: test1
#SHOW @Array('array1').value2 output: test2
#SHOW @Array('array2').value1 output: test3
#SHOW @Array('array2').value2 output: test4

#ARRSET Array('array3').value1 "item1|item2"
#ARRSET Array('array3').value1 %additem("item3",@Array('array3').value1)
#ADDITEM Array('array3').value1 "item4"

#SHOW @Array('array3').value1.1 output: item1
#SHOW @Array('array3').value1.2 output: item2
#SHOW @Array('array3').value1.3 output: item3
#SHOW @Array('array3').value1.4 output: item4

You can kind of do this already with Database variables, lists, indexes and extra code, but this would be so much more powerful. Very Happy

Hey, this is a *wish* list. Wink

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

When a window is out of focus and receives text then the tab at the top and the icon in the taskbar turn green. The ability to tell zmud not to turn these bits green would be nice. A lot of the time I get random useless info from the mud that it's not worth switching back to see. Infact, the ability to have a number of possible colours to signify the importance of text that comes in.

So the icon is blue by default, stays blue on mundane text, turns green if you see semi important text, and flashes if you get attacked for example...

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

the ability to set variables for other sessions, not rather than just 'local' or global variables.
So I could
#svar myfavemud {hungry} {1}
for example

Similarly, the ability to have one session use the value of a variable in another session
#if (%svar(myfavemud,hungry) = 1) {#say Guinn is hungry, remember to feed him!}

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Guinn you can get that through #Names. (I do tons of inter-session stuff)
Session one:
#name One
#var MapY 5
Session two: #name Two

Go into Session two:
#sh @One.MapY
5
---
Echo Carabas' array idea. I work in string lists in zMud and arrays elsewhere.

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

Coo, didn't know that. But problem with that method is that (quite unlikely I know) the event that I have a variable called One within session 2 then it'll check that variable rather than looking to the other session(?)
Just seems a bit ambiguous currently.

Another small idea. At the moment you can test speed in zmud with ctrl-q. If there was a way of cycling through each class and opening and closing them, testing the speed with each, then showing a report of the speed of each class. would help with tracking down dodgy leaky triggers.
and less memory usage... how I can be connected for 14 hours and zmud use 160mb ram when I've got a 70k mud file and scrollback at a few thousand lines... eep

Adept Joined: 12 Nov 2000 Posts: 268 Location: Canada

Wanderer Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 81 Location: USA

Get %roomkind to work correctly when the value you want to assign is over 100.

Magician Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 459 Location: USA

A function to tell if you are currently connected to the mud.

This is very useful for commands pre-set in #alarm.

Wanderer Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 81 Location: USA

After you send a command the text in the command line is highlighted. Used to be that you could just hit control-leftarrow to move the cursor to the beginning of the last word in the line. Now you have to hit the leftarrow or click in the command line to make the highlighting go away before control-leftarrow will work. I liked it better the way it was before.

Also, when you double click on a word in the command line to highlight it, it also highlights the space following the word. Is there a way to make it just highlight only the word without the space the way it used to?

Thanks!

Novice Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 30 Location: USA

Port it to Linux so I can throw out by Windows Box. Very Happy

Seriously, I only have a WIN2K system for Zmud. All the rest runnin Linux.

-bk

Beginner Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18 Location: USA

The ability to read complex wintin95 commands...no seriously if Zmudxp had this ability i would pay full $ for it.

#purge command. The ability to hit one key and delete all commands entered before they are sent to the mud.

Autoset Walk lag.

On some muds their is a thing such as penalty lag. If you spam something you are punished. This is suspose to even the score between the euros and the american players on my game. So even if you do spam directions zmud will store them and send the commands out at the specific second in which you are allowed to walk again without walk penalty lag.

Say you spamed a direction to a healer on the other side of the world and someone attacks you.. OH NO now your going to die because your just going to keep walking and you can't stop.

This is where the #purge command would come in.

If in this state a key like ~ is set aside as the purge key and will delete all stored directions, thus giving you the ability to stop and turn on the dime or fight.

GURU Joined: 28 Sep 2000 Posts: 434 Location: USA

A configurable Boss Key!

For example CTRL+` to completely hide zMUD. No taskbar icon, no tray icon, nothing.

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

[quote="slicertool"]A function to tell if you are currently connected to the mud.

#ALARM "tCheckConnectAlarm" *1 {#if (@oldctime != %ctime) {oldctime = %ctime} {#say NOT CONNECTED TO THE MUD;#T- tCheckConnectAlarm}}

Would be nice if this was already handled, though.

Wanderer Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 57

Suppose making the whole thing skinnable would be too much to ask for? Confused

Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:08 am

it will inherit skinnability from being written in zApp (i think)

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

>>On some muds their is a thing such as penalty lag. If you spam something you are punished. This is suspose to even the score between the euros and the american players on my game. So even if you do spam directions zmud will store them and send the commands out at the specific second in which you are allowed to walk again without walk penalty lag.

We already have this in the Sendline Delay. Would be a bit more useful if we could customize it some instead of applying it to all our sent commands, though.

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 101 Location: USA

I'd hope the new version would be alot faster.

Also a port to work on 64 bit systems.

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:27 pm

1) A command to check for duplicated vars/aliases/trigs/etc Anotherwards, zMUD will check for all like-named variables, aliases, etc. Can check by (for vars) name/value, (for aliases) name/output, (for triggers) pattern/output, etc.

2) A way to search for specific aliases (or vars/trigs/etc). I have an alias that does this, but it's somewhat limited, slow, spammy, and etc. Would be nicer if this was built in, annd a bit more powerful/configureable/etc (for example, could receive output on the screen in string list format, individual lines, in a pop-up box for use, etc)

3) Currently, a great feature in zMUD is that highlighting something on the screen allows you to copy it to the clipboard. This is a problem tho, if you have something important on your clipboard, and accidentally click your mouse (happens to me a lot when changing windows). Would be nice if you could highlight the text, but it wouldn't move to the clipboard until you clicked on the highlighted area again.

Wanderer Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 51

unicode support in display and script.
At least better ansistring support. currently, some non-ascii character will be altered in variable, although display is correct in most time.

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

Wanderer Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 96

Beginner Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 24

Make multi-state triggers searchable.
At the moment if you have:
-state0 with pattern0
-state1 with pattern1.
-state0 is active,
then a search for pattern1 will not give any results.

Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 6:45 pm

GURU Joined: 28 Sep 2000 Posts: 434 Location: USA