Zugg Software :: View topic - Word Coloring, Multi-Line Lists and Interuptions, oh my?

Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Alright folks. I am making a two part system for monitoring my skills and spells.

The first part is a simple #PICK, which allows me to check my knowledge tree in categories, or the whole thing.

EX:

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

This is a classic case for #PSUB or even a full #SUB.

#trigger {(&14) ({master|sliver|other titles})} {#sub {%1 %ansi(color)%2}}

To make it even more specific, change &14 to a list of all the skills as they appear on on the KNOW list. You can use a stringlist variable if you want so you don't have to include every skill in a miles-long trigger pattern.

I'm not sure if #SUB affects every match in a line so you might need to triple the pattern in order to color everything correctly.

Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Alright, I don't quite follow. While trying to understand the formula you have posted, I made a few plugins to see the difference. However, to me it looks the same as if I were to put...

#Trigger {master} {#CW red} {case}

In exception that your formula changes several words the same color. This could have been a problem with my wording. The words, master, sliver etc will have varying colors. Master - red, sliver - yellow for example. The other problem is that the trigger continues to highlight any phrase with "master" in it as opposed to stopping at the end of the list. My main issue is that there is nothing to anchor the end of the list except for a blank line and sometimes that isn't even the case if things are going on.

The only solution I can think of in that sense is if it realized there wasn't anymore sliver, expert, master and the end of the next line. Also, with those return and blank line interupts that can get screwed up. I am not sure how to fix this or if it really can be fixed.

Hope that clears things up a bit. Thank you for the suggestion however. If you have any further suggestions, I am eager to learn.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

This solution requires you to know all the skills ahead of time.
Add them to the skillz list variable.
the proficiency variable contains all the possible skill levels.
and the proftocolor record variable maps the proficiency to a specific color.
This trigger is case sensitive so Master will not match master.
It matches when an item of the skillz variable is followed by one or more spaces and then a proficiency word sliver,master etc
we capture the proficiency word which we use to both lookup the correct color and to specify the word to color.