Help highlighting target and enemies?

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• Elanorwen The White Falconess

  April 2013

  The only way I've discovered is using temporary triggers that will color stuff. So every time I switch target/influence target, it deletes the old temp trigger (if it exists) and creates a new one.
  

  
  
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• Kio

  April 2013 edited April 2013

  Ushaara said:

  Following should work and is flexible, though there may be speedier way of doing it. Your enemies_table would be of form  { "Ushaara", "Rivius", etc. }
  

  trigger pattern: return not isPrompt() <- lua function type
  
  -- highlighting enemies
  enemies_table = enemies_table or {}
  for _,name in pairs(enemies_table) do
      if line:find(name) then selectString(name, 1) fg("red") resetFormat() end
  end
  -- similar for basic target
  target = target or "weevil"
  if line:find(target) then selectString(target, 1) fg("yellow") resetFormat() end

  You will need to watch for case-sensitive things, so string.lower(word) and string.title(word) functions come in handy there.

  I'm afraid I don't understand the trigger pattern.

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• Kio

  April 2013 edited April 2013

  Huzzah!  Learning!  Thank you!

  
  

  BAHAHA!  Everything is working perfectly.  SO MUCH LEARNING.

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• Kio

  April 2013

  When my target is also an enemy, the enemy color is used. How can I change this?

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• Kio

  May 2013

  How can I save the entries of a table so that they're not cleared when I exit Mudlet?

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• Ushaara Schrödinger's Traitor

  May 2013

  Try adding remember("enemies_table") to a logout alias/trigger.
  

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• Kio

  May 2013

  So, I have two tables: one for permanent enemies and one for permanent allies.  I'm trying to highlight my enemies yellow and my allies purple.  I have two triggers for this, both are triggered off:

  
  

  return not isPrompt()
  

  
  

  The ally trigger is:

  allies_table = allies_table or {}

  for _,name in pairs(allies_table) do

  if line:find(name) and target ~= name then selectString(name, 1) fg("purple") resetFormat() end

  end

  
  

  The enemy trigger is:

  enemies_table = enemies_table or {}

  for _,name in pairs(enemies_table) do

  if line:find(name) and target ~= name then selectString(name, 1) fg("yellow") resetFormat() end

  end

  
  

  The problem is that, for some reason, either all the names are yellow or all the names are purple.  Also, once I clear either list, the other list is suddenly highlighted that color (if I empty the purple enemies table, suddenly my yellow allies turn purple).

  
  

  I'm so bad at this.

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• Ciaran

  May 2013

  It sounds like you're adding people to both lists somehow, because the code you shared seems to be fine.

  
  

  Make sure whatever you're doing to add people to enemies_table isn't also adding them to allies_table?

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