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Posted by

Lawlimnatorization (2 posts)

Date

Reply #60 on Thu 24 Dec 2009 07:33 AM (UTC)

Message

>.>

You just linked me back to the start of this post. I don't really know how to go about changing it to only end on punctuation. I tried just throwing everything except ' into the script and I just got errors, so now I've got it sitting on a period.

Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (22,982 posts) bio Forum Administrator

Date

Reply #61 on Thu 24 Dec 2009 07:40 AM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 24 Dec 2009 07:42 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

Message

Oh yeah, I thought it looked familiar. :P

Well, this part on page 1 looks for the end of a multi-line chat:


 -- if ends with quote, end of multi-line chat
  if line:sub (-1) == '"' then
    EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", false)  -- no more lines to go
  else
    EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", true)  -- capture subsequent lines
  end -- if

That is testing the last character of each line for the double-quote character. Now if you say a multi-line chat ends on a period or question-mark or something, you change it to:


 -- if ends with period or question-mark, end of multi-line chat
  if line:sub (-1) == '.' or line:sub (-1) == '?' then
    EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", false)  -- no more lines to go
  else
    EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", true)  -- capture subsequent lines
  end -- if

Now if that doesn't work, can you post what you did exactly, and what the lines from the MUD are?

And if you get errors, rather than saying "I got errors" can you post the exact error message, and what your code was that caused it?

- Nick Gammon

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

Posted by

Cerxi Canada (1 post)

Date

Reply #62 on Mon 25 Jan 2010 08:30 PM (UTC)

Amended on Mon 25 Jan 2010 08:51 PM (UTC) by Cerxi

Message

Sighh.. I'm really new at this. All I want it to do is match (<the name of any of the various guilds, cities, or clans>): <someone> says, "<something>" and pipe it to a new window. Also not to match regular <person> says, only group ones. But I can't figure out how because this is rather too complicated for my tiny brain.

Posted by

Basyiel (10 posts)

Date

Reply #63 on Mon 08 Feb 2010 10:50 PM (UTC)

Message

Ive followed the directions to a tee, I play midkemia, I cannot get anything to send from the main world to the chat window.. I'm copyin and pastin, enabling the plug in and nothing.. I dunno what to say.. past frustrated.. i like the client but nothing seems to work for me. Any help would be great.

Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,982 posts)

bio Forum Administrator

Date

Reply #64 on Mon 08 Feb 2010 11:52 PM (UTC)

Message

To help both of you we need to see, copied and pasted (not just described) the exact output from the MUD you want to match (and any similar output you want to not match).

Also, if you changed the plugin can you at least post the changed lines (or all of it?).

Regular expression matching can be fiddly to get right, an extra space somewhere and it won't match.

- Nick Gammon

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

Posted by

Basyiel (10 posts)

Date

Reply #65 on Thu 11 Feb 2010 10:31 AM (UTC)

Message

I've toying with it here n there, found out the says are working in town and guild chats such as this:

(Sar-Sargoth): Raki says, "Thank you everyone for the hunt."
(Sar-Sargoth): Dhaed says, "Yes, thank you very much for the hunt."

But nothing I say in any kind of chat goes to the chat window, everything stays in in the main window:

(Clan Raven): You say, "Mhm."

You say in Moredhel, "Uhh."

(Sar-Sargoth): You say, "K."

And heres the plug in as it is loaded into the main window.

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







<muclient>
<plugin
name="Chat_Redirector"
author="Nick Gammon"
id="cb84a526b476f69f403517da"
language="Lua"
purpose="Redirects chat messages to another world"
date_written="2007-06-30 10:45:35"
requires="4.08"
version="1.0"
>
<description trim="y">
<![CDATA[
Redirects chats to the specified world.

Add or modify "chat" triggers to capture different sorts of message.

Change the variable "chat_world" to be the name of the world chats are to go to.
]]>
</description>

</plugin>



<triggers>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^(\(.+\): )?[A-Za-z]+ (says|yells|tells you), ".+"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^You (say|tell|whisper) .+, ".+"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="n"
match="*"
script="redirect"
name="multi_line_chat"
sequence="10"
>
</trigger>

</triggers>



<script>
<![CDATA[
chat_world = "RoD chats"
local first_time = true

function redirect (name, line, wildcards, styles)

-- try to find "chat" world
local w = GetWorld (chat_world) -- get "chat" world

-- if not found, try to open it
if first_time and not w then
local filename = GetInfo (67) .. chat_world .. ".mcl"
Open (filename)
w = GetWorld (chat_world) -- try again
if not w then
ColourNote ("white", "red", "Can't open chat world file: " .. filename)
first_time = false -- don't repeatedly show failure message
end -- can't find world
end -- can't find world first time around

if w then -- if present
for _, v in ipairs (styles) do
w:ColourTell (RGBColourToName (v.textcolour),
RGBColourToName (v.backcolour),
v.text)
end -- for each style run
w:Note ("") -- wrap up line

end -- world found

-- if ends with quote, end of multi-line chat
if line:sub (-1) == '"' then
EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", false) -- no more lines to go
else
EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", true) -- capture subsequent lines
end -- if

end -- function redirect

]]>
</script>
</muclient>

Posted by Worstje Netherlands (899 posts) bio

Date Reply #66 on Thu 11 Feb 2010 10:53 AM (UTC)

Message

Try:


<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^(\(.+\): )?[A-Za-z]+ (says|yells|tells you), &quot;.+"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^(\(.+\): )?You (say|tell|whisper)(?: .+)?, &quot;.+"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

Should fix your issues. I don't think I changed the first trigger, but just to make sure I kept both in my post. :)

Posted by

Basyiel (10 posts)

Date

Reply #67 on Thu 11 Feb 2010 12:09 PM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 11 Feb 2010 07:30 PM (UTC) by Basyiel

Message

I dunno, its like these triggers take a minute to warm up :-) started workin normally the way i wanted after changed that line in the trigger, and played for 5-10min. Thanks Worstje

Posted by

Verdilak (6 posts)

Date

Reply #68 on Mon 24 Jan 2011 09:49 PM (UTC)

Message

Okay, somethings are carrying over, and some are not.

You say 'bah'

is carrying over, while

[OOC] Valasha says 'test'

[OOC] Volkar says 'but I did not study I hope its open book'

are not.

Any suggestions on how to make these work?

Posted by

Slowreflex (3 posts)

Date

Reply #69 on Mon 24 Jan 2011 11:08 PM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 25 Jan 2011 09:21 AM (UTC) by Slowreflex

Message

I've really been trying to get this to work, but I can't. Basically, I want to match any line that has something surrounded by ' ' regardless of where it comes in the line. I tried '*' but it seems to pickup any line with a ' in it, even if there's only one. Can someone please help?

This is what is picking up anything with a ' instead of surrounded by them, as I would expect.

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="'*'"
regexp="n"
script="chat_redirect"
omit_from_output="n"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

Thanks for your help.

Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (22,982 posts) bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #70 on Tue 25 Jan 2011 10:26 AM (UTC)

Message

Modifying your trigger slightly to colour the line but not call a script gives this:



<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="2"
   enabled="y"
   match="'*'"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>
</triggers>

That does not match this line:


[OOC] Volkar says 'but I did not study I hope its open book'

Nor would I expect it to, as the line doesn't start with a quote.

I doubt you actually copied the trigger as advised here:

Template:copying

For advice on how to copy aliases, timers or triggers from within MUSHclient, and paste them into a forum message, please see Copying XML.

If you did, it wouldn't have this in it:


regexp="n"

That is because not being a regexp is the default, and it doesn't normally put defaults in.

So to assist you, I need the actual trigger you say doesn't work, not a modified version.

- Nick Gammon

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

Posted by

Slowreflex (3 posts)

Date

Reply #71 on Tue 25 Jan 2011 02:14 PM (UTC)

Message

Hi Nick, you answered Verdilak, but not me. Did you miss my post?

Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,982 posts)

bio Forum Administrator

Date

Reply #72 on Tue 25 Jan 2011 08:40 PM (UTC)

Message

Oops. I saw two posts an hour apart on an old thread last posted to in February 2010, and just assumed they were from the same person, particularly as they were both about quote symbols. You notice my reply actually quotes Slowreflex's trigger but uses Verdilak's test data. So it was sort-of a "combined reply".

Slowreflex : can you please post the actual trigger you used?

Template:copying

For advice on how to copy aliases, timers or triggers from within MUSHclient, and paste them into a forum message, please see Copying XML.

Also the actual line from the MUD you are trying to trigger on?

Verdilak : can you please post the trigger you used as well? (See copying advice above).

This is a 5-page thread, and there are a few variations on the plugin and suggested trigger in those pages, so it is hard to give advice without seeing what you are actually using.

- Nick Gammon

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

Posted by

Verdilak (6 posts)

Date

Reply #73 on Tue 25 Jan 2011 09:11 PM (UTC)

Message

Nick, I used the trigger/script as listed from the first post on this thread.

Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (22,982 posts) bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #74 on Wed 26 Jan 2011 03:54 AM (UTC)

Message

So this trigger?


  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   match="^[A-Za-z]+ (says|chats|yells) \'(.*?)\'$"
   regexp="y"
   script="redirect"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>

That won't match on lines starting with "[OOC] " so you need to add that as an option:


  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   match="^(\[OOC\] )?[A-Za-z]+ (says|chats|yells) \'(.*?)\'$"
   regexp="y"
   script="redirect"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>

The question mark means that "[OOC] " is an optional prefix.

- Nick Gammon

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

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