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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:49 am

Ok, I was going to attempt to do something today I'd never done before. Looked at some pieces of code that did something similar, and figured I'd come here to help fix bugs... however, I'm 100% lost on this, don't even know where to start :P So if anyone is interested in the "challenge" of coding something for me (prolly won't be much of a challenge to most)...

I'm lookin to create several aliases to create popup windows. The window would be of the click to highlight variety, and would list a series of options. After hitting "ok", it should output all options that were highlighted in one string. There will be 4 sets of options for 4 windows (4 aliases). The first set is:

Wanderer Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 60

Don't want much do ya?

As far as I know, zMUD does not do popup windows Period. To say nothing of popup windows of the highlight variety. Also setting this up so it only highlights certain traits for certain mobs is unrealistic. In order to even attempt such a solution you would first have to Assume that all mob names are unique and secondly build a database for all of those mobs with individual settings for each mob. Too much damn work. =P

Are these traits someting that show up all the time? or only when you (look at/inspect/consider/whatever) the monster? Some example text of what you're trying to filter this massive list of words from would be helpful.

This block of code MIGHT decide to color every occurance of any of thse words from the Mud. Then again it might just decide to torture you dog instead. One never knows.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Take a look at the help for %pick. It allows multiple selections and seems to be what you are looking for. Since its return is in a zScript list format you will also need to use %replace or %expandlist. Quick example:

#VARIABLE Affects {p:Please choose affects|blind|invisible|detect_evil|detect_invis|detect_magic|detect_hidden|detect_good|sanctuary|faerie_fire|infrared|curse|lightspeed|poison|protect_evil|protect_good|sneak|hide|sleep|charm|flying|pass_door|haste|calm|plague|underwater breath|dark_vision|berserk|swim|regeneration|slow|web}
#VARIABLE Offenses {p:Please choose offense methods|area_attack|bash|berserk|disarm|rescue|dodge|fast|kick|dirt_kick|parry|trip|assist_all|assist_align|assist_race|assist_players|assist_guard|assist_vnum}
#ALIAS examplename {aff %expandlist(%pick(@Affects)," ");off %replace(%pick(@Offenses),"|"," ")}

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:40 am

Billaben: I think you misunderstood the request. And tho it did sound like
a lot, once I saw what I needed to do, it's actually a very simple system.
I made the request based on something I had seen in another script, but
the system was MUCH more complex in that script, and I couldn't figure it
out. But it really takes me longer to create the variables needed than the
alias now (I actually had about 20 of those aliases I wanted to make, I
picked 4 to post here, each alias now takes about 5 secs :P )

Vijilante: Yes, %pick was *exactly* what I needed :P I had actually
received private help on this matter yesterday, and the setup I learned is
slightly easier, tho basically the same thing :)

Wanderer Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 60

Humm... Well I guess I'm confused then. Still confused in fact. But If you're making progress on your idea now, that's what really matters. =P