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Shwick (21 posts) Bio

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Mon 24 May 2010 09:51 PM (UTC)

Amended on Mon 24 May 2010 10:07 PM (UTC) by Shwick

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I have a trigger that I exported as a plugin, but I want to edit the plugin some more. I deleted the trigger from my world, but it remains in the plugin.

I am having trouble loading the plugin to edit and getting the trigger to appear in the trigger window.

I tried saving the world with the trigger. If I delete the trigger and reload the world, the trigger won't appear in the triggers window.

Also tried importing the plugin using Import -> Load/View Plugins but that didn't work.

Trying to import the plugin's xml file using Import from File thew an error,
"Line 9: Plugin not expected here. Use File -> Plugins to load plugins (problem in this file)"

File -> plugins allowed me to enable the plugin, but didn't load the triggers into my current world for editing.

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,133 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #1 on Mon 24 May 2010 10:13 PM (UTC)

Amended on Mon 24 May 2010 10:16 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Once written, a plugin does not have a GUI interface for editing. However you can usually easily add triggers, aliases etc. by simply:

Create one in the normal GUI interface
Click on the "Copy" button

For advice on how to copy aliases, timers or triggers from within MUSHclient, and paste them into a forum message, please see Copying XML.
Edit the plugin file in a normal text editor, like Notepad, Crimson Editor, the MUSHclient internal text editor, or another editor of your choice.
Paste the trigger (or alias/timer) clipboard into your plugin in the appropriate place. This is generally just before
or after other triggers.
Save the plugin file, and do a "Reinstall" of the plugin inside MUSHclient to get it to be reprocessed.

Most plugins will look something like this:


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

<muclient>
<plugin
   name="Plugin_name"
   author="Plugin Author"
   id="d6830bca27e7b6b5089b530a"
   language="Lua"
   purpose="Plugin purpose"
   date_written="2008-10-15 07:35"
   requires="4.30"
   version="2.0"
   >
<description trim="y">
Some description here ...
</description>

</plugin>


<!--  Triggers  -->

<triggers>

... your triggers here ...

The comment line in bold ("") is a suitable place to paste more triggers, aliases and timers.

If you just need to make minor changes to a trigger you can generally just edit it in the plugin. The various fields (eg. match, send) are usually pretty self-explanatory.

- Nick Gammon

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

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Posted by

Shwick (21 posts) Bio

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Reply #2 on Mon 24 May 2010 10:49 PM (UTC)

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thanks for quick reply

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