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Novice Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 31

Forgive my newbness. Anyways, a couple of questions.

When I end the command line with a symbol eg. ( ! ? ) etc, it will start a new line, making me have to hit enter twice. Any way to turn this off?

Was trying to set up my status bar to show the health/mana/moves of my other 2 chars (mud allows multiplaying). I have variables set for their stats, and I have it showing on my status bar, but it's behind by 1.. turn? Like if I have 150 mvt, and move, it'll still show 150 instead of 149 until the prompt comes up again, be it through moving further, or fighting, etc. Shouldn't it be updating my status bar as soon as the variable is updated? Here's what I have

#SB PORK: @porkhp / @porkmana / @porkmove SARI: @sarihp / @sarimana / @sarimove

And then for each character I have

#ACTION {^< (%n)H (%n)M (%n)V >} {:krom:#va porkhp %1;:krom:#va porkmana %2;:krom:#va porkmove %3)

Is there something I can add that'll make it update real time?

Thanks.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

1) I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. Can you give a specific example, and explain what happens?

2) The problem is that your trigger will only fire after a carriage return, and your prompt does not include a carriage return. The solution is to open the Package Editor window, select the trigger, and click the option Trigger On Prompt (I believe that is the name of the option). That option will cause the trigger to fire on prompts like this one, without waiting for the carriage return. You may want to turn off Trigger On Newline.

And--welcome to Cmud!

Novice Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 31

Thanks, that fixed the status bar thing perfectly!

As for the other, well, let's see. It's not 100% of the time, because I just tried to do it on purpose and it won't, but let me try to explain. I'll be typing in the command line, say sending a tell to a friend, and sometimes I'll hit enter and it won't send the text, instead it'll start a new line, expanding the command line to another line. Every time it's happened it seems to have been when I've ended with punctuation, be it an ! or ?, or some kind of bracket for a smiley face.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Aha! To get the ! or ? you had to use the SHIFT key. The problem is probably that you still had the SHIFT key depressed when you hit ENTER. SHIFT-ENTER in the Cmud command line will do exactly as you describe, allowing you to enter multi-line commands at one time. Solution--just be careful to release the SHIFT key before hitting ENTER.

Novice Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 31

Right again. You really are a wizard.

Thanks

Novice Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 31

Ok, a follow up question. Is it possible to colour a field on the status bar? Like if I wanted the health to show up as red?

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:10 am

The %ansi() function can be used add color to items on your status bar.
Putting,

Novice Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 31

Back with another question!

Is there any reason why new aliases may not work at all, like it's not recognizing I'm entering an alias? I made an alias for depositing credits via a bank card. Looked something like this:

#ALIAS {depo %1} {rem pack;get card pack;deposit %1;put card pack;wear pack}

But when pressing depo it just gave me the MUD error for not being able to do that there and didn't attempt to run the alias at all. Tried renaming it to several things that would have no conflict and nothing.

Thanks again.

Novice Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 31

Figured it out myself. I discovered the %params function! I guess there was some kind of issue with having numbers or something? Shrug, anyways, figured it out.

Novice Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 31

Alright, discovered a problem. I can't execute an alias in the other window with this.

My initial alias is #alias ff {:soandso:%params}

This works great just for regular mud commands, but if I want to use a cmud alias, say my 'pack' alias, it doesn't execute the alias, just shows as an invalid mud command.

Wanderer Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 85

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Novice Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 31

Hmm, %0. Is this better or worse than using something like %params? I know that from reading the help file it seemed to imply that %1 was a bad, old option. Also, will #execute still do normal mud commands as well as cmud aliases, in case I just want to be able to make my other window 'say hello'?

Wanderer Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 85

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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:28 pm

Think of %0 or %-1 for that matter as a shortcut for %params() or %params(1). They all return everything directly after the alias.

%-2 or %params(2) both return the second word and everything that follows and so on.

Wanderer Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 85

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Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

By the way, skeen77, you ought to start a new thread for every new problem that you have, rather than reusing an old thread.