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Newbie Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 1

alright Im new to Zmud..

I wanted to capture the last line that comes through Zmud on a trigger and assign it to a variable. I thought #cap would be the best option but it can only send the line to a new window (as far as I know).

So can anyone help me accomplish this?
Trigger:
You have become better
or
Learning from your mistakes

This line comes through:
You have become better at whatever skill!

Assign to variable skill: "You have become better at whatever skill!"

Just so whoever provides insight knows where Im going with this. I plan on sending that info to a preconstructed A2k database via ADO (I think I can manage this part, the tutorial is quite clear)

Hope someone can help..or point me in the right direction..

thansk!
Jmonday

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

#TR {You have become better at (*)} {#VAR dbstring %concat("You have become better at",%1)}

I'm sure Lightbulb or someone will have a more elegant solution, but this should work. *untested*

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

This is what I use for skill tracking:

#CLASS {Character|SkillTracking}
#VAR SkillGains {}
#TRIGGER {^(*) trains you in the art of (*)$} {#ADDKEY Skills {%1} 1} "" {case|notrig}
#TRIGGER {^You have become better at (*)!$} {#NOMAP;#ADDKEY Skills {%1} {%eval(%db(@Skills,"%1")+1)};#ADDKEY SkillGains {%1} {%db(@Skills,"%1")};#NOOP %btnenable(SkillDisplay,1)} "" {case|notrig}
#TRIGGER {^You learn from your mistakes, and your (*) skill improves.$} {#NOMAP;#ADDKEY Skills {%1} {%eval(%db(@Skills,"%1")+1)};#ADDKEY SkillGains {%1} {%db(@Skills,"%1")};#NOOP %btnenable(SkillDisplay,1)} "" {case|notrig}
#BUTTON 40 "%if(@SkillGains,Skill Gains: %expanddb(@SkillGains,",",":"))" {SkillGains="";#NOOP %btnenable(SkillDisplay,0);save} {} {} {} {} {} {Size} {400} {15} {Pos} {1} {1} {} {} {} {} "" {Explore} {} {SkillDisplay} {2}
#CLASS 0

Since my mud provides that multiple characters can be accessed through a single connection the Skills variable is contained elsewhere. There is also another trigger that detects saving that clears the button display(not included since it connects to 6 aliases and 10 triggers). I have that button panel (2) set to bottom so it works like a second status line for me. This leaves everything in a record variable within zMud. With the exception of character creation all skill gains are captured by this method on my mud.