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Newbie Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 8

so i imported my settings file from zmud...

and all of my aliases that require targets just aren't working...

for instance:
locate aliases "sing 'location'" (its a bard... deal with it)

in zmud i could "locate (item)" and it would actually find the item

in cmud it won't pick up the (item) and use it in the alias?

am i missing someting?

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:06 pm

You need to show us the exact Alias definition that you are using for us to help with this. Also, make sure you have read the article linked in the Sticky topics about how to convert zMUD scripts to CMUD.

Newbie Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 8

ok
so after doing some thumbing thru the forums...

i found i need a $target

so i made the alias read

#alias locate {sing 'location' $target}

and it worked... and i logged off, closed cmud, relogged... and now instead of working, it sends the $target to the mud... instead of the target i typed...

i am confuzed

Beginner Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 19 Location: USA

While we're on this topic, I'm experiencing some wierd things myself with aliases. I loaded up my zmud file, and most of it works... However, some aliases no longer work. Consider the following:

Zmud:
#alias mm {cast plasma blast}
Then in the command line I'd type in something to this effect:
mm monster
And it would essentially 'cast plasma blast monster'

This is not the case in Cmud. When I type in 'mm monster' it sends cast plasma blast to the mud, not cast plasma blast monster. In order for it to work property, I have to:
#alias mm {cast plasma blast %1}

However, sometimes this isn't appropriate. On my mud, if I'm in combat I can just type 'cast plasma blast' and the mud will interpret that as me wanting to cast plasma blast on the monster I'm in combat with. Or, for misc spells like invis I can just 'cast invisibility' and my mud will default to casting invis on myself.

The issue is that Cmud isn't taking into consideration anything you type after your alias for output to the mud unless you specify it as part of the alias. This is different from Zmud. Why? I don't know but I like it the other way :)

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:53 pm

I'm fairly certain that CMUD is supposed to have that behaviour so it looks like it's a bug.

For now it is okay for you to put the %1 in because typing mm on it's own means that %1 is null so just 'cast plasma blast' gets sent.

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 5:36 pm

The need for %1 has been discussed in other topics. Yes, it is a change between CMUD and zMUD, but it is needed for compiled scripts to work properly in CMUD, so the need for %1 isn't going away.

What I *will* fix is to make %1 work and return null if no argument was specified, rather than giving an error.

But back to the original poster: $target would be used to refer to a local variable or alias argument. In other words, the correct alias would be:

#alias locate($target) {sing 'location' $target}

Otherwise, if you don't want to specify it by name, just use %1 as the last poster did:

#alias locate {sing 'location' %1}

Beginner Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 19 Location: USA

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:30 pm

Zugg: I tested earlier putting in %1 into the alias and not giving the alias an argument and it worked fine, %1 got expanded to null for me and the spell went off fine with no target.

Pyron: Either %0 or %-1, though I'm still a little upset %0 got put back in.