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Novice Joined: 27 Jul 2002 Posts: 38 Location: USA

Is it possible to perform some action when a map Zone is loaded (and hopefully when it is unloaded).

I've got a bunch of triggers for suppressing output of room descriptions that indicate time, but there is no need to check them for every zone, just one.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

What do you mean, when you walk into a zone, or when you display a zone in the mapper (without necessarily having to walk to the zone)? You might want to check out zone scripts.

Kjata

Novice Joined: 27 Jul 2002 Posts: 38 Location: USA

I ment when I load the zone. The mud has outdoor areas that don't map easily (and don't really need to be mapped). This means when I leave one city and go to the next I have to manually switch zones.

Hmm, I could put triggers for the start rooms of each zone to load it, that could also let me turn on zone specific triggers. Now how to turn them off again? I'll have to see if I can grab something from the outdoor travel perhaps.

How do I load a map to be current, #TELEPORT seems like it would work. Is there something better?

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Any settings that appear in a room script are created when you enter the room and estroyed once you leave the room. Thus, you could put aliases in the room scripts of the rooms that connect to another zone like these:
#ALIAS east {#TELEPORT roomNum zone}

Kjata

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Yes this is quite simple.

In each of your zones put in the Zone Script:
#ALARM {+1} {ZoneLoader}
#VAR ZoneLoad "stuff|stuff2" "_nodef" {ZoneScripter}
#VAR ZonePend "stuff|stuff2"

Now for the meat:
#CLASS ZoneScripter {enable}
#VAR ZoneLoad {}
#VAR ZoneUnload {}
#ALIAS ZoneLoaded {#FORALL @ZoneUnload {#EXEC {%i}};#FORALL @ZoneLoad {#EXEC {%i}};ZoneUnload=ZonePend}
#CLASS 0

That will likely activate before you even connect to the mud if your map opens with your char. The script is capable of doing just about everything you could want. If you desire to use lists anywhere in it you will either have to leave them as permenant variables or tweak a lot to get them to seperate properly from the whole script.

You might also be able to remove the #ALARM and just use the the alias command by itself, but I could not test it thoroughly to be sure.

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

A slight modification to Kjata's alias:

#ALIAS east {~east;#TELEPORT roomNum zone}

- Charbal

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Heh, thanks for catching that Charbal.

Kjata

Novice Joined: 27 Jul 2002 Posts: 38 Location: USA

Actually it's much easier then that.
Right click on a zone, and bring up the zone properties, then you can enter in any script. It's active only when that zone is active, and goes away when the zone goes away.

I should have done more exploring before posting here, sorry.