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Newbie Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 8

No this isn't a microsoft problem.

What I want to do is create a window that I can send all my chat to, tells, class CT all of it. The question is how do I do this in a step by step matter.

I play the game achaea and I would really like to put all the chatter into this seperate window so I can do all my mudd work in a main center window and the chat will be to the left side perhaps in a small square and not just a whole other window but smaller.

Any help is great.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Have a read up on #CAPTURE
and #WINDOW

That should get you started

Novice Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Sweden

Doing what you ask for is rather straightforward, but possibly not what you actually want in the end.
#TR {(%w) tells you'(*)'} {#CAPTURE Communication"; #GAG}
#TR {(%w) chats '(*)'} {#CAPTURE Communication"; #GAG}
etc...
will do what you ask for. Read below for possible problems.

I'm not familiar with Achaea so I'll just go ahead and assume a few things first:
- any person using channels such as tells and chat have only one word names
- mobs can have single or multiple words describing them, resulting in things like "The hermit says 'Greetings warrior'" as well as "Carl says 'I'm a mob'"

General:
I'll be using "Mob" to indicate a mob described with one word when using channels, "The Mob" for multi word descriptions and "Char", "Char2" etc for a charactername

Step 1.
Find the pattern for all your different channels. I'll be using the syntax from Realms of Despair (SMAUG mud) for this example.
Char tells you 'some text'
Mob tells you 'some text'
The mob tells you 'some text'

Char says to Char2 'some text'
Char says to you 'some text'

Char says 'some text'
Mob says 'some text'
The mob says 'some text'

You say to char 'some text
You tell Char 'some text'
You tell The mob 'some text

Here we can conclude:
- that if necessary you can choose to treat things you say differently if you so wish
- You can't distinguis between Mob and Char (unless they produce differently coloured text or you set up an extensive database or textstring containing all character and/or mob names
- If we want both Mob and The mob messages to be treated alike, while being handled differently from all Char we are in serious trouble.

Step 2.
Find out how to handle what you want to do.
This is easy enough
"#GAG" without any parameters will make the last line received from the mud not be shown.
"#CAPTURE Communications" will send the last line received from the mud to a window called Communications

Step 3.
Create your triggers and make certain that you know what will happen in different circumstances.
Examples:

#TR {(%w) tells you'(*)'} {#CAPTURE Communication"; #GAG}
This will send all tells you receive to another window and not show it in "where you mud". This includes any tells from mobs with one word descriptions such as:
Mob tells you 'To pass through this portal you must say the magic word abrakadabra.'
Now, unless you keep a careful eye on the Communications window, you just missed some possibly important in game info...

(Some indentation here for readbility which makes this not copy-pasteable)
edit: indentation is removed when posting. just put it all on one line...
#T {(*) tells you '(*)'}
{#IF ( %pos(" ", %1) = 0)
{#CAPTURE Communication}
{#CAPTURE MobCommunication}
#GAG
This will check if there is no whitespace in the part preceeding "tells you", and if there is, send it to MobCommunication, otherwise send it to Communication. Seems nifty, but if there are both "Mob tells you" and "The mob tells you" on your mud, you will end up with some mob tells in Communication window and some in MobCommunication window.

However, there might be easy solutions on your particular mud depending on how things actually look (as opposed to my assumptions). Perhaps the text is coloured differently if you get a tell from a mob than if it comes from a person, or perhaps there are only mobs with multi word descriptions etc.

Newbie Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 8

ok, i seem to have gotten the chat window to work right..now this is awhole new problem. How do I get the status window to show my status? to show my Health, Mana, Will power? and over all status of my character. and to have it update as I go thru combat?

and just to have simple prompts such as if I'm blinded it will read in red in the window. "Blinded" or LEFT ARM BROKE. is there a script out there that will do that? (and if you have a custom script that does this sort of thing could you please send me a PM.) Thanks in Advance.

Novice Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Sweden