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Newbie Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: USA

I like zmud for it's range but this is the wooliest code ever devised. I try to insert varables in mxp statements in 40 different ways and ur prog decides I want temp triggers which don't work under other conditions. I wonder if ur getting ****z and giggles at my expese. if so, may it come back to you

Wanderer Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 96

Don't know about everyone else, but I always get a lot of enjoyment from fools like you.

Post a question, or request, or shut up.

*Please note that my views do not reflect the views of Zuggsoft nor am I affiliated with them in anyway, so don't bother whining to them about my response*

GURU Joined: 24 Sep 2000 Posts: 1237 Location: USA

Ouch, that was a wee harsh. I'd have said it like this: It's complex because it has to be. You can't have lots of flexibility in a simple language. The upshot is, you can always ask how to do things here, and get the answer, and usually a lot of good ideas that can be applied elsewhere, too.

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 8:34 pm

Well, and to add:

Posting something more specific, like the actual MXP code you are trying to use, would also help.

Newbie Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: USA

Glad to help out Lalaynya. And sorry Zugg for the angry post, It's just sometimes the errors I created seem more purposeful then they really are. I suppose programming on this level has too many rules for me.

Rather then go into the yards of frustrating and (silly) attempts at trying to combine, expand, or escape variables, does the MXP processor have the ability to use trigger input on the fly?

Basically I want a trigger that will #sub ~<send "exa %1"> %1 ~</send> %2

Wanderer Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 96

Ah-HA! A question!

I don't have something that uses %1, but I'm using the following in a trigger:

#sub {~<a href=%trigger>%trigger~</a>}

The problem is that if you use #sub with more than one parameter, it DOES create a trigger(by design!)... the solution is to use the curly braces to show zMud that you want the whole thing to be the first parameter.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Yeah, what Lalaynya said. Appling that example to your case, what you want is:
#SUB {~<send "exa %1"~> %1 ~</send~> %2}

Newbie Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: USA

#SUB {~<send "exa %1"~> %1 ~</send~> %2} returns an empty %1 due to the quotes. Trying to use quotes as text in ZMud is exhausting for me. Functions treat their own commas weirdly and the parsing is unpredictable. Spose I will try to expand an ascii function but my apathy expects to see whatever rendered literally. Thanks though, I can always generate an error and trigger the exa person on the notification, but that's poor [:I].

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Use single quotes in MXP tags. Looking at the specification page in the Support Library and every example of MXP in the help file shows that this is the way to do it.

Newbie Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: USA

Though how to expand variables inside quotes was a problem. Now ZMud refuses to acknowlege the string 'exits:' at all, even for dragon realms. This seems a tad motivated (to me). Suppose I can go kill lily leaf beetles, winter moths, aphids, spider mites, and earwigs. The xp is good this time of year. [:p]

ta

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 7:25 pm

Yes, quotes can be a pain sometimes. The solution, as with *any* programming language, is to either use the "other" set of quotes (single vs double) or to "escape" the quotes to prevent zMUD from treating them specially.

Here are two triggers that I had no problem getting to work:
Pattern: (%w) says (*)
Value: #SUB {<SEND href='exa %2'>%1</SEND>}
or
Value: #SUB {<SEND href=~"exa %2~">%1</SEND>}

If you posted your exact trigger, then we could probably help more. In general, the more info you post, the better help you'll get.

The %1..%99 variables are not expanded like @var variables. %1..%99 are done as string replacements before the commands are parsed, and do not care whether they are within quotes or not.

Newbie Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 8 Location: USA

You have enterd a dense forest.
a mind is here

thanks Smile