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

Every time I connect to this particular PennMUSH, an MXP command causes it to clear my screen and scrollback buffer, so I can't see all the things it said to me as I was logging on. It also means every time my crap Internet connection disconnects me, I lose my scrollback.

I tried to find the relevant element and uncheck it in the MXP settings, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I can't simply disable MXP since the MUD still spooges MXP all over my screen (and I can't find any in-game settings to control that).

Is there some way to make zMUD ignore that annoying destroy-my-scrollback-buffer command? (Similarly, how about all the excess <br> codes that cause almost everything to be double-spaced?)

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

It would seem that they are using a #CLR command within MXP. As far as I know this would have to be within a <SEND> tag, which would limit its usabilty. The only other way I know to preform a clear is with the ansi command 2J; this is generally followed, or preceeded, by the ansi 1;1h sequence. The combination of the 2 ensures the screen is cleared and the cursor is positioned at the top left of the screen. Those ansi sequences, however, should not cause zMud to dump the scrollback buffer. I am at a loss as to cause of your problem and would suggest posting a log of the event occuring produced from the command "#DEBUG test.txt trace.txt". One of the 2 files created will contain slightly more data, it would be best to use the proper excerpt from the larger of the files.

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

When I disable MXP and then reconnect, I see this at the line where the buffer would get nuked:

</xch_mudtext><img xch_mode=purehtml><xch_page clear=text>

I tried unchecking this element from Elements | System:

<xch_page (clear fgcolor text) FLAG='!xp' EMPTY>

as it's the closest thing to that (and the help is no help about what I'm doing on that tab), but no effect.

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

This is Pueblo enhancement. I've never worked with it, but maybe by turning off either the Pueblo folder under the System class in your settings file or perhaps the Pueblo emulation options in MXP Preferences it will stop the screen clearing?

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

Beautiful! That not only stopped the nuking but also the extra line breaks! What a huge improvement.

I did both, by the way: set the Pueblo class to disable on connecting, and turned off all three Pueblo-related checkboxes in MXP settings.

Thank you so much!