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Novice Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 41 Location: USA

I have a script that im haveing problems with.
It is a script that i use to tell me what kind of scrolls that they are with additional words.

Item 'a mildewed magenta scroll of 'summon elemental''

there are a few scrolls from a mud that i play on that wont work with this and im haveing problems trying to get it to work.

#1. there are some scrolls with the word scroll in the description of the scrolls.... and they dont show up at all.
Item 'a scroll made of rattlesnake skin'

#2. there is one scroll with a ' , ' in it which doesnt allow it to show up correctly ... which makes it look like
Item 'a soggy, yellow-green scroll of '''

What am i doing wrong? knowing my luck it would be something terribly simple that i am not seeing, What can i possibly do to fix this and Could you explain it please... I am still new at learning zmud and havent got enought experience in it to branch out on my own... please help me

Sorcerer Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 706 Location: USA

Darkwytch,
Is the first example and example from the MUD?
To help us undstand a little better can you give an example of the MUD output then what you want your script to do. This way we can understand how it better.

Novice Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 41 Location: USA

no the first example is one from a scroll that works properly.. how i see it from the script that i have here pasted..

The other two are ones that dont work at all... basic line of text from the mud looks like so with out my trigger running.

Item 'an ivory scroll' is type scroll, alignment 0, made of paper, has keywords 'ivory spell scroll'.
This item weighs 0 stones and 5 pebbles, and is valued at 7,250 gp.This level 50 item has the attributes: identified nochange
An ivory scroll is in excellent condition.
Contains knowledge of the spell of 'dispel magic', scribed at level 50.

or like when i take it out of a container or item it looks like so..

You take an ivory scroll from a magical belt pouch.

but with the trigger turned on and running my scrolls should look like this,

Item 'an ivory scroll of ' dispel magic'' is type scroll, alignment 0, made of paper, has keywords 'ivory spell scroll'.
This item weighs 0 stones and 5 pebbles, and is valued at 7,250 gp.This level 50 item has the attributes: identified nochange
An ivory scroll is in excellent condition.
Contains knowledge of the spell of 'dispel magic', scribed at level 50.

You take an ivory scroll of ' dispel magic ' from a magical belt pouch.

and again most of them do work like this, except for the scrolls: a scroll made of rattlesnake skin , a brown scroll smelling of dung , and a soggy, yellow-green

Sorcerer Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 706 Location: USA

To me it looks like the two thing that are consistant in your Mud is the way it displays the item.
Make a trigger on "Item (*) is" and another on "You take (*) from"

Example untested:

Wanderer Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: USA

whos your char in MM, darkwytch?

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

For the first problem, include the word "scroll" in the description so that it will appear in the right place. Your trigger requires "scroll" to be the final word of the scroll description. It would also help to use the scroll descriptions as the keys of your record variable and the scroll spells as the values, instead of having "Description" and "Spells" as keys with matched lists for values.

The second problem is caused by the commas. Functions use commas to separate parameters, so whenever your string contains a comma it requires grouping characters to ensure that the functions will treat it as a single parameter. In particular, whenever you use %1 or %i in a function it should be enclosed in double-quotes or other delimiters.

#VAR Scroll2 {} {_nodef}
#ADDK Scroll2 {an enchanted crimson-colored scroll} {abjure}
#ADDK Scroll2 {a soggy, yellow-green scroll} {bless}
#ADDK Scroll2 {an amber scroll made of cowhide} {calm}
#TR {({@Scroll2})} {#SUB {%1 of '%ansi( hi,red)%db( @Scroll2, "%1")%ansi(def)'}} {Scrolls}

To simplify the switch from @Scrolls to @Scroll2, use this script:

#LOOP 1,%numitems( @Scrolls.Descriptions) {#IF %pos( scroll, %item( @Scrolls.Descriptions, %i)) {#ADDK Scroll2 {%item( @Scrolls.Descriptions, %i)} {%item( @Scrolls.Spells, %i)}} {#ADDK Scroll2 {%item( @Scrolls.Descriptions, %i) scroll} {%item( @Scrolls.Spells, %i)}}}

Novice Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 41 Location: USA

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

@Scroll2 is not a stringlist, it's a record variable. You can add as many key-value pairs as you want, using #ADDKEY. Each key must be unique, the values don't have to be.