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adamwalker
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Joined: 12 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:56 am
Ansi Triggers and mapper conundrums
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I never found a way to add the descriptions to an already created room? anyone else got ideas.
but aside from that I decided to make the map from scratch... using #TAGs so it added the descriptions in the first place. a small problem im having is...
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The Even-tide has come; darkness will follow soon. The branches of the forest give sway here to a large open space, slightly grassed over. This field certainly has
not been used for quite awhile although this probably would mean that it was left to lie fallow for a year or two to regain its nutrients, ready to feed the
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See the problem? If I wanted to find a room with 'ready to feed the population' inside it the search wouldnt work because the mapper put a line break in cos of the muds output.
is there a way to remove/fix the linebreaks?
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MattLofton
GURU
Joined: 23 Dec 2000
Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:42 pm
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Yes, there's a way, but you are going to need to show the whole room output. There's no way to tell ZMud that "This is a room description." is any different from "This is not a room description." without some sort of context clues.
However, basically you will end up with a three-state trigger:
State 0: room name
State 1: room description
State 2: exits or prompt, depending on how your room output looks
State 0 will capture the name and other information that might appear on that line, and initialize the needed variables. State 1 will capture as much of the description as it can and enable a separate trigger to capture the rest (must be stored in a variable). Linebreaks can be removed at this stage using %concat(). State 2 will turn off that capture trigger and then #TAG all the information stored in the variables.
If you have extra lines that sometimes don't appear (ie, critters and items), you will probably want to create separate triggers for these and have the text removed from the description variable. |
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adamwalker
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Joined: 12 Mar 2005
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:21 pm hmmm
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hey. i have gotten SO far with it doin it slightly different to how you suggest. this is my progress...
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#TRIGGER "MultiTrig" {%e[1;33m(%1)%e[0m.} {
#var roomvar {}
#TEMP {*You notice*} {#STATE multiTrig 0}
} "" {color} |
and this seems to work. all the info is in @roomvar anyway. my problem now is i cant work out how to clear the current description to the current map room (that is selected by current position) then insert the contents of @roomvar
i assumed it would be as simple as
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| #ALIAS myalias {%roomdesc( , @roomvar)} |
but that doesnt seem to do anything for me...
thanks again for your help |
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adamwalker
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Joined: 12 Mar 2005
Posts: 195
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:41 pm
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update - tried
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| #noop %roomdesc( , @roomvar) |
too without any luck. just does nothing
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nexela
Wizard
Joined: 15 Jan 2002
Posts: 1644
Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:04 pm
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You have to be in mapping mode, or have the map unlocked. The below alias rewrite will save the mapper lock status, unlock it, and then relock it
#ALIAS myalias {
mapstate=%maplocked
#CALL %maplocked(0)
#CALL %roomdesc( ,@roomvar)
#CALL %maplocked(@mapstate)
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