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Xvordan (29 posts) Bio

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Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:10 AM (UTC)

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Is there any chance the spam prevention feature of MUSHClient could be expanded upon in future so that it can either call a function, or at least execute an alias which could itself contain scripting? I don't always want to send the same text with spam prevention, and being able to script or call alias would give me a way to vary the response from the client.

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,166 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #1 on Tue 27 Oct 2015 05:59 AM (UTC)

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Most of this sort of thing can be achieved by a simple plugin. Here is one I just wrote to show the idea:

To save and install the Spam_Prevention plugin do this:

Copy between the lines below (to the Clipboard)
Open a text editor (such as Notepad) and paste the plugin into it
Save to disk on your PC, preferably in your plugins directory, as Spam_Prevention.xml
Go to the MUSHclient File menu -> Plugins
Click "Add"
Choose the file Spam_Prevention.xml (which you just saved in step 3) as a plugin
Click "Close"


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE muclient>

<muclient>
<plugin
   name="Spam_Prevention"
   author="Nick Gammon"
   id="45ffbf9a9215cac359817593"
   language="Lua"
   purpose="Script spam prevention"
   date_written="2015-10-27 16:50:12"
   requires="4.90"
   version="1.0"
   >

</plugin>

<!--  Script  -->

<script>
<![CDATA[

MAX_SAME_COMMANDS = 3

lastCommand = ""
commandCount = 0

function OnPluginCommand (sText)

  if sText ~= lastCommand then
    lastCommand = sText
    commandCount = 1
  else
    commandCount = commandCount + 1
  end -- if
  
  if commandCount > MAX_SAME_COMMANDS then
    Send ("emote sighs")
    commandCount = 0
  end -- if
  
  return true -- process it
end -- function OnPluginCommand

]]>
</script>

</muclient>

This uses the OnPluginCommand callback to detect you planning some text to the MUD. There are other callbacks that work slightly differently (for example, to detect a scripted send, rather than a player-typed send).

In that plugin you can count the number of times something identical is sent, and then send something else first. Thus you could modify the count, or choose to send something different if you wanted.

- Nick Gammon

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

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