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Newbie Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

Hi, this is my first time on these forums, so if this question has already been addressed before, please help me out with a link or something.

I play a MUD (Realms of Hell), that has a world map system. I can get the world map to display in a separate frame using the MXP <send> and a few triggers. But obviously, that defeats the purpose of having the map frame, since the map has to show up in the main screen as well. My MUD is really just starting to experiment with MXP, so there's no server-side support yet.

What I'd like to do is know if it's possible to intercept the map before it displays in the main frame, and divert it to the map frame - that way I see only the map in the map frame, and everything BUT the map in the main frame.

An example of what the map looks like is:

Newbie Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

So so far, I tried using this:

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:31 pm

I'm not sure where MXP comes into this. It seems to me like all you want to do is move the map from one window to another. What's that got to do with MXP? I'm loath to suggest a solution when I still don't understand the problem.

Newbie Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

Are you referring to the 2nd line, where I use #MXP?

I do that because otherwise, I get an error from the MUD saying that <DEST is not a valid command.

Yes, the main thing I want to do is move the map (and description next to it) to a different frame. How would you suggest doing that?

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:30 pm

Since this isn't a finished script, could this be moved to the proper forum? Just a question.

Charneus

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:08 pm

Good spot, charneus, I'd missed that.

OP: No, I'm not talking about your use of the #MXP command, I'm talking about your use of MXP tags at all in this. Why are you bothering?

Newbie Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

I'm bothering to use MXP tags because I don't know any other way. If you do, please enlighten me. Thank you.

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:56 pm

You really only need to to create the MAP window once with the MXP command, and as Fang pointed out you really don't need to use MXP. After thinking about it some more, I'm guessing you're using to update in place the map window. I'll post a non-MXP solution later, right now I'm off to workout.

Newbie Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

Thanks for the help.

That does remove it. There are a few problems - the edges of the map are denoted by "|", but so are paths, so sometimes that causes the image to be skewed. What I wanted to do is just have the entire line copied over, which is why I used the (*) in my loop. However, that didn't remove the blank line from the main window - it just showed a blank line instead. Any fix for this?

One more thing - the map has colors, but the colors don't get copied over the new frame (all shows up green). Is this because I'm using MXP when the MUD is displaying in ANSI color? Anyway around this problem?

Thanks a lot for the help!

Example:

This

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:06 pm

That's because Tech made a mistake in his pattern. I think he meant this: ^({.|~|}%*{-.|~| })

I changed the * to %* because I believe * doesn't match some special characters, which could cause problems here.

Newbie Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

So I tried that, and it still looks funny. I changed my trigger to:

Newbie Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 7

I've been working on it a little more, and I almost have what I want. I'm using:

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:44 am