| Author | Message | 
  
	|  Topic: Is zMapper still selling poorly? | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 6
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 |  Forum: zMapper Discussion   Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:17 am   Subject: Is zMapper still selling poorly? | 
  
	| Ugh. Well color me not suprised on the poor sales. I should have done a trial on zMapper as well before going ahead and buying the package deal. zMapper is soooooo buggy. =( 
 I was thinking of using ...
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	|  Topic: Sending a string to the window without getting sent to mud | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 3
 Views: 7364
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:15 am   Subject: Sending a string to the window without getting sent to mud | 
  
	| Be warned however, anything that hits the screen can activate your Triggers. even #SAY | 
  
	|  Topic: I need Help with mapper and flee | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 12
 Views: 25365
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:32 pm   Subject: I need Help with mapper and flee | 
  
	| Try playing with these three functions... 
 %roomname(,"name")
 %roomdesc(,"desc")
 %roomexit(,"exit")
 
 Note, this still does not answer for portals and one way links. Handling these situations wil ...
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	|  Topic: I need Help with mapper and flee | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 12
 Views: 25365
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:20 pm   Subject: I need Help with mapper and flee | 
  
	| Yuck and double yuck. 
 * CW>Valinor Street
 There is an old street-lamp on the border of the street.
 Exits: north, east, west.
 
 The prompt got attatched to your title line, I hate when muds d ...
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	|  Topic: Why are people having trouble getting a new license? | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 17
 Views: 34393
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:48 pm   Subject: Why are people having trouble getting a new license? | 
  
	| I don't know about everyone else, but I know in my case your database is in error. I purchased your 55$ bundle including zMud, zMap, and acx a bit over a week ago. I have a copy of the webaddress it s ... | 
  
	|  Topic: how to space? | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 5
 Views: 11790
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:59 am   Subject: how to space? | 
  
	| '~' is the key you want. 
 #EXEC {say~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ }
 
 That will force it to type say with seven spaces after it. Normally zmud will trim out any extraneous whitespace. There might be other ways to  ...
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	|  Topic: Retromud Mapping Script | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 6
 Views: 22183
 
 |  Forum: Finished MUD Scripts   Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:12 am   Subject: Retromud Mapping Script | 
  
	| Humm... yea, it is rather a monster, I considered converting it to a string list at one point but chose not to bother. When I initially started coding in those triggers I didn't know how to define str ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Creating a list from the contents of a container | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 20
 Views: 33277
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:01 pm   Subject: Creating a list from the contents of a container | 
  
	| The FORALL in this trigger looks fairly time consuming. It may help to make it a priority sequence.  If it is 'too much text' for it to handle this should resolve it.  Note, I also see that your {$} t ... | 
  
	|  Topic: %random & #send added question | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 13
 Views: 20285
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:41 pm   Subject: %random & #send added question | 
  
	| HUmm.... set the code aside for a minute. Before I can really think about this one I need a clearer picture of what exactly this shuffle concept is intended to do. | 
  
	|  Topic: trigger needs to match to a list...please help | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 2
 Views: 6592
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:30 pm   Subject: trigger needs to match to a list...please help | 
  
	| Humm.... Well this could be a trigger, but I think your desired IF sequence is going to complcate things if it's going to work in all cases. 
 #VAR FriendList {human|elf|dwarf}
 #TRIGGER  ...
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	|  Topic: alarms | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 6
 Views: 10906
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:58 pm   Subject: alarms | 
  
	| A word of warning on this. If you go with a basic If (HP<250) it will be awfully spammy if you are under this threshold for any amount of time. An example would be a similar message someone spammed ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Retromud Mapping Script | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 6
 Views: 22183
 
 |  Forum: Finished MUD Scripts   Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:44 am   Subject: Retromud Mapping Script | 
  
	| Okay, I've been doing a lot of work on this lately. I held off posting off anything new for a while because I was making a pretty profound change to how the script verifies if you have moved or not. I ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Need help.. from scratch :P | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 4
 Views: 8772
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:59 am   Subject: Need help.. from scratch :P | 
  
	| Humm... Well I guess I'm confused then. Still confused in fact. But If you're making progress on your idea now, that's what really matters. =P | 
  
	|  Topic: Classes Losing flags when ZMud Exits | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 2
 Views: 6009
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:55 am   Subject: Classes Losing flags when ZMud Exits | 
  
	| This is how I do that. The #CLASS SomethingSomething 0 line only executes once, as soon as you load the script or login or whatever. It immediatelly disables the class before it does anything. 
 #CLA ...
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	|  Topic: Three Colour Guages | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 16
 Views: 26181
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:56 pm   Subject: Three Colour Guages | 
  
	| To the best of my knowledge, it simply can't be done currently without going to a plugin of some kind. #GAUGE is simply not designed with more than two colors in mind. 
 On a personal note, I think i ...
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	|  Topic: need help with fixing up trigger. | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 6
 Views: 12288
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:19 pm   Subject: need help with fixing up trigger. | 
  
	| #TRIGGER {^%e~[1;31m*DISARMS your Nasr, Claymore of Sovereignty!$} {#ECHO TEST} "" {color} 
 You forgot to enable color. =P
 
 Also, This doesn't look like ...
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	|  Topic: Need help.. from scratch :P | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 4
 Views: 8772
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:09 pm   Subject: Need help.. from scratch :P | 
  
	| Don't want much do ya? 
 As far as I know, zMUD does not do popup windows Period. To say nothing of popup windows of the highlight variety. Also setting this up so it only highlights certain traits f ...
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	|  Topic: Complicated Trigger Help | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 5
 Views: 8290
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:40 pm   Subject: Complicated Trigger Help | 
  
	| Oh brother... don't want much do ya? 
 I'm just going to snag a line or two here as example and let you expand things from there. Also I haven't messed much with the databasing side of things yet so ...
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	|  Topic: More problems with Strings | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 3
 Views: 6480
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:20 pm   Subject: More problems with Strings | 
  
	| I'm still hoping to find an answer on this. I want to store the entire description block in a single variable and keep the formatting intact since in many cases it becomes nearly unreadable if I do no ... | 
  
	|  Topic: End Fight Buff/Debuff | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 1
 Views: 5213
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:52 pm   Subject: End Fight Buff/Debuff | 
  
	| That's confusing. Could I see a short example of this battlespam and an explanation of what you're trying to do with it ? | 
  
	|  Topic: corrupt settings? | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 2
 Views: 7567
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:45 pm   Subject: corrupt settings? | 
  
	| I got this a lot for a while myself although I am not entirely sure what caused it. I ultimatelly ended up saving all my scripts and maps off to a seperate folder, nuking the mud folders in zmud and i ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Multiplaying on a MUD? | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 5
 Views: 14309
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:41 pm   Subject: Multiplaying on a MUD? | 
  
	| You're asking for advise on how to cheat on your Mud? Hehe. You're on your own friend. And yes, there are ways.... | 
  
	|  Topic: Answered: Capture trigger - How to grab [$] | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 3
 Views: 7847
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:39 pm   Subject: Answered: Capture trigger - How to grab [$] | 
  
	| The problem with $ is that it is a special character. When seen in a trigger command it means <EOL>. So it will try to match your pattern ending at the $ as the end of a line. 
 If your $ is in ...
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	|  Topic: Creating a list from the contents of a container | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 20
 Views: 33277
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:26 am   Subject: Creating a list from the contents of a container | 
  
	| There's two main ways to handle that. 
 #VAR Card {%concat(%1, %2)}
 
 or simply
 
 #VAR Card {%1 %2}
 
 Either should work.
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	|  Topic: IF/ELSEIF/ELSE Statements in Zmud | 
  
	| billaben 
 Replies: 7
 Views: 26889
 
 |  Forum: zMUD General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:28 am   Subject: IF/ELSEIF/ELSE Statements in Zmud | 
  
	| No problem. Syntax in zMud can be rather tricky. I reccomend using the editor included with zMud and tagging pretty print regularly. it's good at catching syntax errors for ya. | 
  
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