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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:53 am

#TRIGGER {(%w)} {#IF (%colorname( %1)!=536870911) {#CW %1}}

Why doesn't this work? It seems to only test the first word of a line, though i see no reason why it wouldn't fire for every word.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

i thought %w was for word. so basically it triggers on any line that begins with a word?
i would think you would have to #TRIGGER {(*)} etc. then split the line from there?

Thats my inital reaction i will think on it more and see what i come up with. I have to run to work now so im sorry for the abbreviated response.

Edit: hmm ^(%w) would be a new line beginning with a word. So you got me. (%w) should check every word it recieves from the mud. Interesting.

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:08 am

yes, but i have no delimiters to make it only fire there... every word on the line SHOULD match the trigger and make it fire

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

ZMud picks the largest pattern in a line, and also the first one it can find. Since one word is--as far as %w is concerned--no larger than any other word, ZMud picks the first one. You should notice that it won't fire on the first word when that first word consists of letters and symbols (ie, Claaw'vor, pea-brained, etc).

If you are after a word in a specific position, you will have to better define your pattern.

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:28 am

what that trigger is supposed to do, is on every word that is supported by %colorname, color it its appropriate color, i was just trying to to it without using a stringlist, but obviously i failed

why is it that '#CW red red' will fire multiple time on a line, but not this?

by the logic you present the first instance would satisfy the trigger and it wouldnt fire anymore, yet it does fire multiple times on a line

Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 106

I really don't think such a trigger is worth the incredible amount of extra processing that zmud has to do.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

may not be but its what he wants.

FIrst off
If the color does not exist, the clNone color is returned which has a value of 536870911.

As such %colorname() is used for returning the value of a color for the windows api interface i.e. %colorname(red). So thats not going to work for what you want i dont believe.

Now to answer your other question.

1. Both of these triggers turn EVERY word black.
#TRIGGER {(\a+)} {#CW %1} - Check mark Perl Expression
#TRIGGER {(%w)} {#CW %1}

However This trigger turns every word red
#TRIGGER {(%w)} {#CW red}

MOST IMPORTANTLY
#TRIGGER {(%w)} {#CW %1 red} Makes a trigger for every single word ONLY at the beginning of the line.

So this means #CW and the checking is done on every word.

Next segment

If i change the trigger to echo the %colorname it only checks the first word in each line. thusly showing the colorname in the first line
#TRIGGER {(%w)} {#ECHO %colorname(%1)}

So the reason its happening only on the first line is because of the type of command you are trying to use.

However substitute command replaces every word with its color name.
So here is my recommendation.

CHANGE TO AN ANSI TRIGGER AND FIGURE OUT WHICH COLORS YOU WANT TO TRIGGER.

i.e.

#TRIGGER {(%e[1;35m) triggers magenta and work from there. You can copy and paste the colored text into the trigger and it will make it.

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:22 pm

Keep in mind that the trigger only fires once per line. So (%w) is only going to capture the first word on the line. The code that loops through all matching words on the line is actually done in the #CW code, not in the original trigger, which makes #CW a bit of a kludge.

So, in your original trigger, the #IF statement is only executed once for the first word.

Also, I'm not sure if #CW recalculates the color for each match. It was never designed to do this. But just remember that it's #CW that is loop through all matching words, not the original trigger itself.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

sounds like you are saying

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:30 pm

Novice Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Sweden

I'd trigger on (*) to get everything from every line.
From there on:

loop and use:
%pos is used to check for the next whitespace
%left is used to get the leftmost word of the line
%delete is used to remove that word from the line

when %pos returns 0 there are no more whitespaces left, so break the loop and then get the last word of the line

example:
looping over: "towards end of line"
-> "end of line"
-> "of line"
-> "line"
when checking here, there are no more whitespaces left, but the last word remains.

Though, I agree it might not be worth it.

Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:29 am

This may not be the most elegant solution to the problem, but it gets the job done. I borrowed heavily from a color wheel code I came across here on the forums.

The Colours variable has all possible zMud colors. The ColourTest alias displays them. The colorcreate alias creates a trigger that matches and colors each word. I included a bit so that words likes 'blues' and 'silvery' are completely colored but words like 'stand' don't have the middle colored tan.

I don't use alot of triggers but I did not notice much of a slow down.