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Posted by

Jcet USA (25 posts)

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Sun 12 May 2002 08:54 AM (UTC) [ quote ]

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Basicly, the trigger reads:
Name:
you type something and it sets it to a variable and also send it to the world... any ideas how I would go about this?

-Jcet
See no good, hear no good, be no good, kill all good!

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Posted by Vaejor (120 posts) bio

Date Reply #1 on Sun 12 May 2002 03:24 PM (UTC) [ quote ]

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My first thought is to find a general statement on the mud during the login process that displays your name and capture it from there, but from your request, that doesn't seem to be a useful alternative right now.

Here's one way that I've thought of. I've done some minimal testing on it, and it seems to work fine:

Set up a trigger as follows:



Trigger:   Name:

Enabled:   <Checked>

Label:     catch_name

Script:    catch_name

Insert into your script file as follows:



Dim thename  'Note: You can put this inside the Sub if you will pull the variable from the MushClient variable each time using world.GetVariable().



Sub catch_name(ByVal strName, ByVal strLine, ByVal astrParam())

  thename = InputBox(strLine)



  world.Send thename

  world.SetVariable("thename", thename)

End Sub

This will pull up an inputbox, where you can type in the information and it will be pushed to the mud(via the .Send) and stored in a MushClient variable(via the .SetVariable)

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Posted by

Jcet USA (25 posts)

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Reply #2 on Sun 12 May 2002 07:53 PM (UTC) [ quote ]

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I tried that but it says cannont use parentheses when calling a sub.

-Jcet
See no good, hear no good, be no good, kill all good!

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Posted by Vaejor (120 posts) bio

Date Reply #3 on Sun 12 May 2002 07:59 PM (UTC) [ quote ]

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Ahh, my apologies, try the following VBScript instead:


 Dim thename 'Note: You can put this inside the Sub if you will pull the variable from the MushClient variable each time using world.GetVariable().

Sub catch_name(ByVal strName, ByVal strLine, ByVal astrParam())
  thename = InputBox(strLine)

  world.Send thename
  world.SetVariable "thename", thename
End Sub

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (18,770 posts) bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #4 on Sun 12 May 2002 09:42 PM (UTC) [ quote ]

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One problem with triggers is that they don't match until a newline. Thus, if the mud is waiting for you to type in a name, like this:

Name:

The trigger won't match (because no newline has been received).

What I would do here, guessing that you want to remember the name you entered automatically, is to enter the name the usual way, but catch when the MUD echoes it.



Please choose a name for your character: 

Temyr

Did I get that right, Temyr (Y/N)?

In this case, you enter the name "Temyr" in the usual way, but make a trigger to catch it like this:



Trigger: Did I get that right, * (Y/N)?

Send: %1

Send to: Variable (label is name)

Label: character_name

Of course, the exact trigger text would depend on the MUD in question, but many of them will be similar as they are based on the same code.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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