Broken targeter

Nakarel

Hello

I am not a coder but some time ago people helped me make a targeter and a staff cast alias.
The targeter went with x <something> and it also highlighted the target, while ff was my staffcast.

Unfortunately, I couldn't recover the proper lines (since they had to be edited many times in the process), rather found a copy of them before being fully polished.

And I am afraid my targeter doesn't even work anymore

So I will be more than grateful if someone can help me out ^.^

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I am using Mudlet.

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pattern: ^x (.+)$

Target = matches[2]

sysEcho("info", " target set:" .. string.title(target))

if id then killTrigger(id) end

id = tempTrigger(target, [[selectString("]] .. target .. [[", 1) fg("gold") resetFormat()]])

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pattern: ^ff( \w+)?$

if matches[2] then

send("point staff " .. matches[2])

else

send("point staff " .. target)

end

Ssaliss

How doesn't it work? Does it print the info line when you set a target? Can you staffcast with a specified target, but not with the set target?

With a quick lookthrough, it might be that it says "Target = matches[2]". Not sure if Mudlet is sensitive to capitalisation; if so, it should probably say "target" instead of "Target".

Nakarel

When I x something:
1) It doesn't hightlight it
2) It doesn't target it at all

I can staffcast manualy so I guess the problem is within the targeter itself.

So I did what you suggested - removed the capital "T" - now it targets. Though it still doesn't highlight

Ssaliss

I'm guessing the highlighting comes from this line:

id = tempTrigger(target, [[selectString("]] .. target .. [[", 1) fg("gold") resetFormat()]])

That being said... I've no clue what's wrong with it.

Akyaevin

Depending on what you're targetting, it may not be highlighting due to trying to compare something like "ssaliss" to "Ssaliss", which doesn't actually match due to case differences.

Easiest way is probably to look into making a permanent Mudlet trigger off a variable, and making sure that trigger isn't case sensitive.

Lerad

Try adding

target = target:title()

above the "if id then ..." line. It should then highlight capitalised versions of your target.

Nakarel

Nope. There's simply no highlight at all, regardless of the target

Shedrin

You have 'Target = matches[2]' capitalized, but then you use 'target' uncapitalized later on. Make it consistent. Capitalization matters!

Ssaliss

Shedrin said:

You have 'Target = matches[2]' capitalized, but then you use 'target' uncapitalized later on. Make it consistent. Capitalization matters!

That part was already fixed though, unless I misunderstood something.

Nakarel

It was

Shedrin

Oops, ok.

Ryanne

I think Mudlet targetting was case sensitive last time I checked. Make two temp triggers, one for 'ssaliss' and one for 'Ssaliss'. Alternatively check if your stuff throws an error when executed.