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Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 5

Hi.

My pc recently crashed, and when trying to back up zMUD (v7.04) I get an error saying "C:\zMUD\ZMUDAPI.DLL is not a correct Windows memory-image. Check this with installation disk" (or something similar, I don't use an english WinXP).

The procedure I use, which has worked fine before, was simply to copy the whole zMUD directory. Then after format to just install zMUD again, and overwrite the newly created directory with the backupped one.

The thing I want back is all the triggers I had created, which are a pain to recreate, so if there's a file that contain the saved triggers that'd be awesome. Otherwise, all help is welcome.

/ Stillborn

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

the .mud file contains all triggers etc.
You should install zMUD v7.21 though, there are a number of memory leak bugs fixed between 7.04 and the current release.

Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 5

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

It's the .mud file inside the mud folder. There should also be a backup of the mud file in the same folder (whatever_bak.mud I think).
I'd suggest taking a copy of the entire zMUD folder, then upgrading, then try opening the .mud file with v7.21. You'll not lose any data if you have a copy of everything and you'll have more support open to you if you have the latest version - v7.04 is almost 3 years old now and not officially supported.

Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 5

Ok, now I have reinstalled and upgraded to 7.21, but I haven't tried anything yet.

You say I should just copy the mud folder (including mud.mud and mud_bak.mud) into the new installation?

Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 5

Ok, I tried starting a new folder for the mud, then replacing the .mud's, same error as before.

Opening the .mud directly with zmud just gives a blank window. It doesn't connect, and there are no triggers. :(

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Sounds like you'll need to use the Migration Guide, or barring that simply starting over. Assuming you have to start over, try this:

First, uninstall and delete everything. If you know what you're doing (THIS IS IMPORTANT, IF YOU AREN'T SURE THEN DON'T ATTEMPT THIS) and have a registry editing tool, delete any entry that mentions ZMud and possibly Zuggsoft (I'd leave these alone if you have more than one product, however, unless it was obvious the entry was intended for or created by the ZMud installation). You can keep .mud file backups if you want, but don't move them back into the ZMud folders. In fact, you may want to rename them to include the word "old" somehow so you can easily tell them apart from the new files later.

Second, create new characters in ZMud and connect to your game like normal. This will create a default .mud files in the game-name subfolders of the ZMud directory (part of the reason why you shouldn't move the old files back into the zmud folders). If you have child windows with settings in those files, use #WINDOW to create them now and save each file and your layout as needed. At this point, you can either recreate everything by hand or go on to the next step to maybe fish out settings from the old files.

Third, while in offline mode (it's safer since nothing will accidentally fire while you're working on something), open up the settings editor. It is pointing to the new settings file now, so to access your old file simply click on the File|Open menu and navigate to your old file. This will open a second settings editor window with the contents of the old file. Since you were having so many problems and since you were previously using 7.04, I highly recommend you don't copy and paste anything from the old file to the new file. The many errors in that version have corrupted the old files and that corruption may get transferred to the new files via copy and paste.

Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 5

Ok, that sounded a bit too advanced for me. I'll just have to write the triggers all over again.

Thanks for all the help anyway!

btw, is there a trigger tutorial somewhere? I could sure use one.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

There's really nothing better than the helpfile if you're wanting to learn the code. If you need something like a walkthrough, you can try using the Trigger Wizard.

#TRIGGER "name" {pattern} {code} "class" {options}

name -- used as a handy reference to the trigger (if you don't include a name, the only way to programmatically deal with an individual trigger is via the pattern itself).

pattern -- this is where wildcards go. For backwards compatibility, %1...%99 can go here as well but it's not recommended (Zmud is an improvement over TinTin, not a clone). Look in the helpfile for Pattern Matching if you need more info.

code -- this is the stuff the trigger does. If you want a trigger to color the pattern, code would be something like #cw red.

class -- this is the "file path" of your trigger (open up the Settings Editor, the class folder icons make this make a ton more sense). You specify every single class folder you travel through to arrive at your trigger. For instance, click on the System folder. Notice how it has a bunch of classes in there and how one of them is called Directions? If you wanted to put a trigger in there then class would be "System|Directions".

options -- this is where the trigger is described (beyond the above sections). If you open up the Settings Editor and click on a trigger, in the Edit window that appears with the trigger data you will see a tab marked Options. Everything on that tab goes in this little space, using specific keywords (or removing the keywords in some cases):