Zugg Software :: View topic - Capturing/getting info from map db if needed

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Hello,

I know i have already written a similar thread cpl days ago but figured I'll do it again while trying to give exactly what I need to be done.

First off, I'm capturing a line from MUD with a syntax:

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:13 am

if you want the window to respond to the text you send it... makes the DB triggers within the child window
just remember to save the settings for the child window from the Setting Menu, the window needs focus for that

#WIN windowname {your formatted text here.}

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

ok....

But I still need help with doing those triggers, though.

Thanks

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Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

figures no one will help then ?

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Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

If nobody helps by the time I get in from work this evening I'll take a stab at it.

Can't promise anything yet though. I'll let you know something regardless. It could be tomorrow before you see the post one way or the other.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

OK, I'll wait for your reply then :)

And thanks a lot in advance.

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Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

I stole and edited the stuff Vijilante wrote up for you in the other thread.

First delete your class named TargetCaptures if you still have it.
Then copy and paste the code from inside the code box into your command line and hit enter.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Now, I do not know what mud you play on so I obviously don't have a map of it to test with. I used a map of Avalon for these results.
Also you did not explain or give examples of the trigger text showing you when the creature is in another area/zone. This made me unable to filter the results based on if the poor things ARE in another area/zone.

These and other limitations of information make it hard to know what you want without more input from you.
I tested this using the following line and got the results below.

Trigger text: You still have to kill 5 rats (Street)

Main window shows: You still have to kill 5 rats (Street)

Targets window shows:

You still have to kill 5 rats (Street)
Zone: Mercinea: Room: Street by pier.:
Zone: All: Room: Street by the apothecary.:
Zone: All: Room: Street by village mill.:
Zone: Mercinea: Room: Street outside a small house.:
Zone: Thakria.: Room: Street of the glorious dawn.:
Zone: Thakria.: Room: Street of the glorious dawn.:
Zone: All: Room: Street to Mercinae.:

You will notice that these are not EXACT matches. I added a wildcard to the query at the end.

%mapquery( %concat( "Name LIKE '", %-1, "%'"))

Without the wildcard it would look like this.

%mapquery( %concat( "Name LIKE '", %-1, "'"))

But I was not certain just WHAT your real output contained and wanted you to have the best possible chance of getting ANY output.

You stated in the other thread that you had some small working knowledge of how to use %mapquery etc. I think this would be a good starting point for you to try and alter the above to more suit you.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Okay, going to try explaining more adequately then. First of all, I need the map DB search function to kick in together with captured line. Let me explain it, though. Atm, after I have done an alias, lets say 'gg', it captures all the lines with 'You still have to kill' from main window into a capture window, thats it. What I need to be done is that when the said lines gets captured into a subwindow, it would trigger the search for ma p DB. Basically, I don't need any more extra aliases. The way in which order the things are supposed to work (given that the info in 'You still have to kill' line's bracers () is that of a room name), should look like this:

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Ok, I started to play with the script you suggested for me in your most recent post. Forget almost everthing i was yapping about in my own last post :P Replaced the mapquery line without wildcard and exact search is working awesomely now :) anyway, there's still some stuff I can't get passed from myself. How to make script disable the search when I don't have room name between bracers () but an area name? Thats really the only thing that needs to be set that I can think of atm, other than that I think sadly checking my current level vs replies from map DB won't work because there's no way for it to work because map DB doesn't have info about what level the areas are etc. It shouldn't be all that bad though because there really aren't that many rooms which will be completely identical, heh.
Anyway, I think I'm pretty much set after we will be able to figure out how to exclude Area names from search somehow. I don't really know enough to give have an educated guess, though.
Really big thanks already for what you have done and thanks in advance.

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Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Ran into a new problem now though, namely in your script, you're noop'ing roommode to 0 but I really can't have it because for another script of mine its crucial that 'use room name instead of Vnum' option stays checked. Have any way of leaving it untouched so that script could still work? I removed noops with 0 but now it doesn't work at all. Most likely true that just removing them isn't solving a thing but maybe there's a way to replace them with something so that my current 'setup' won't get disturbed by it.

Thanks :)

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Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

As I mentioned above I can't do more without more information. Here is what I meant.

I need to have a line from your mud pasted in your post that you see when you only get an area name instead of a room name.

I need to have a line from your mud pasted in your post that you see when you only get a ROOM name.

I need a line from your mud that you get when you get both. IF you get both.

I need some explanation as to how I would know the difference.

It is strictly possible to do a search on levels based on your level. But you would have to create a database variable that lists what zones on your map can be safely used by what level persons.
I believe you did post the name of the variable you use to keep track of your own level.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Hrm, if you just noop it back to 1 at the end of my script instead of removing the noop to 0 it should work.
I was thinking 0 was the default is the ONLY reason I changed modes at all. My scrip requires that it be in 1 mode to work.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Yup, changed that other #noop to 1 as well and now its working without interfering with the setup I'm currently having. Line with Area name at the end of it and line with Room name are identical, btw, but just in case I'll give 'em once more then.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

well, seems I still haven't got any more feedback on the things i have formentioned in this thread so I figure I'll throw in another troublesome thing and perhaps someone will pick it up.

The script Arm made is working and doing everything I wish it'd do, with one exclusion. The "You still have to kill" line I need to have captured and map DB search made isn't just only one line per se, if you understand what I mean.Basically, Arm's script seems to do only one search through map DB per one line only. My problem is that generally I'm getting 10+ lines with "You still have to kill" at once and they all need to be captured and a search needs to be done for each of them. I retried several times with Arm's script and it still only makes a search for one line only so I guess its still missing something. But I know too little to figure it out myself....

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Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

I'm sorry mate. I haven't been looking at every post because I have been busy and I didn't see that you had asked anything else.

I'll start with the one answer per kill problem.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Thanks a lot, deleting the :Targets:#CLR worked and its giving out all the info I need now.
Furthermore, did as you suggested and made #CW triggers into Target window setup itself and it works now as well :)

Thanks a lot for all the help, I really appreciate it.

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