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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:21 am

I cannot get ~ to work on zmud, it shows up as `- I'm using windows XP home and zmud 7.21 please help. I do ASCII and well, I need the ~ to work for it. I've tried `~ and ~~~ but nither one allowed me to get the ~ to show. Asking for help I was told to come post here, so here I am. :) It is a U.S. keyboard not a UK keyboard. Any ideas?

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:30 am

normally just ~~ works for me

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:13 pm

Can you get it to show up in a new, blank session?

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:28 pm

Also, if you open Windows Notepad and press the ~ key on your keyboard, does it show up in Notepad as a ~ or a ` character?

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:52 am

~ works fine in notepad, I'm not sure how to open a blank session.

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:34 am

hit escape from the mud selection window

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:55 pm

Press ESC to open a blank window. Then click on the command line at the bottom of the blank session and press the ~ key and see what is entered into the command line. If you enter ~~ and press Enter, you should see a single ~ character echoed to the session window.

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:24 pm

okay in a blank window, if I use two ~~ it comes out as ~ but in any of my game windows it doesn't matter how many ~ I use, t always shows up `-

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm

That means you probably have a trigger that 'eating' the ~. A few things go to View -> Preferences -> Special Characters to confirm that your quote character is '~'. Second, try disabling all triggers (by clicking the gun in the lower right hand corner) and see if you still have the problem. If it works then you have to selectively re-enable all triggers to figure out what's 'eating' the character.

In the absolute worst-case you can try using #say %char(126).

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:39 pm

I did the special characters thing, didn't seem to help. Same with turnning off triggers.

#say %char(126).

gets me Huh? when I try.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:12 am

The %char return ASCII character associated with the number. 126 is the '~' character. #say is a zMUD command so if you included that in what you sent to the MUD it wouldn't understand. Try just typing #SAY %char(126) at the command prompt.

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:41 pm

#SAY %char(126)
Huh?

'#SAY %char(126)
(IC) You speaks with a soft celtic accent in common '#SAY %char(126)'

'%char(126)
(IC) You speaks with a soft celtic accent in common '%char(126)'

%char(126)
Huh?

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

looks like he has parsing turned off...

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:21 am

I'm a she :P and I'm only use ~ for ascii other people can use it and sadly show off that fact to me. :P So far I've had to do the work in note pad, then give it to someone else to copy paste, the area is an 90 room castle in all ascii art so doing it this way is a slow pain.

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:07 pm

You need to turn on command-line parsing. The Ctrl-R key will toggle command line parsing on and off.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Or clicking the icon that looks like a PC next to the icon for triggers... which looks like a gun... in the lower right hand corner above your command line. Though, if you mud without a mouse like I do you'll find things like ctrl-R are very nice :D

And sorry for the sexual confusion... it is text after all Wink

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 11:05 pm

I tried those, still can't get it to work :( sadly it looks like I'm doomed to ever get to do it.