Mudlet Questions

Siam

I just went back to using Mudlet today, and I need your help. I've lost what little I've learned in the past. Basically, I want to capture the amount of esteem I have, and should it be greater than a set amount(for example: 100), I'd like to imbue the captured amount to a figurine. I was thinking of basing it off of QSC. Help, please?

| Siam Star-eyes, Echo of the Wyrd ---------------------------------- #86 |
| Essence: 27,866,684 Power: 10p ( 92%) Karma: 10% Esteem: 156 |
| Health : 4810/4810 Mana : 6175/6300 Ego : 6684/7500 Analytical |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Ciaran

I think the pattern would be...

^\| Essence: .+ Power: \d+p \( \d+\%\) Karma: \d+\% Esteem: (\d+) \|$

if you didn't care about how specific the regex was, you could just do

^\| Essence: .+ Esteem: (\d+) \|$

and you'd just do...
esteem = tonumber(matches[2])


I can't test right now, I put lots of \ in front of characters I wasn't sure about... But I think that should work

Siam

Thanks!

Siam

Another problem:

"Beseeched she, the Night for Beauty, and beauty it was she found," you sing, letting an ebony and moonhart mandolin howl with painful notes.

I want to ignore everything else besides "you sing", see below:

^" * " you sing,* \.$

I suspect I have to use the A-Z thing here, right? I can't find something similar in the new forums, though. I think I could always trigger "you sing" as a substring, but I think that'd be too crude... ) All help would be appreciated!

Ciaran

^.+\" you sing, .+.$

Siam

Thanks!

Siam

Regarding TempTimers, is there a way to cancel all TempTimers triggered by something?

Ciaran

I'm unsure about that.  If there isn't you can do it this way...

for each temptimer you create do...

local timerID

if not timers then timers = {} end

timerID = tempTimer( blah, [[blah]])

table.insert(timers, timerID)

and then you can create a function

function killAllTimers()

for _, id in ipairs(timers) do

killTimer(id)

end

timers = {}

end

note: there may be some errors, I just scribbled that up.

edit:Thinking further, it may be easier for you to do this instead of writing all that for each timer, use customTimer(blah, [[blah]])...

function customTimer(time, action)

local timerID

if not timers then timers = {} end

timerID = tempTimer( time, action)

table.insert(timers, timerID)

end

edit2: bugfix

Siam

Thanks. I would love to know the reason behind the usage of each 'function' and why it's scripted the way it is, though, so I get to learn as well.:)

 For example, why use

if not timers then timers ={} end -- why the blank brackets?

How does one go about using timerID? I hope you get what I mean, or that at least I don't sound stupid! Hahaha.:)

Tacita

For an even simpler option, just trigger the completion messages from influences to attempt to imbue 100 esteem or however much it is you wish. Yes, it means you imbue when you don't need to - but it's also really simple

Akyaevin

Siam said:

if not timers then timers ={} end -- why the blank brackets?

This is initializing timers to ensure it's not null. If timers is not declared, it will return null, so it goes into the if statement and declares it. Thus, after this if check, we always know timers is not null (we don't NECESSARILY know it's a table, as timers having any value (e.g. an integer) will make it not null, but we can assume it as such).

A simpler method is: timers = timers or {} 

In that case, the 'or' means "if timers is null, use {}". It's a nice little thing to use to avoid null errors and check declarations.

Siam

Big help! Thanks a lot @Akyaevin.

Vadi

timers = timers or {} is actually a bit quicker than the if, too. It's a good pattern to use.

Ciaran

Good to know!

Siam

You guys are a helpful bunch.

Siam

^You pat (.*) in a friendly manner\.$ 

 patted =  patted + 1

cecho(string.format("<green>\n\n   We have  patted % persons!\n\n",  patted ))

The above doesn't seem to be working.

Ciaran

I don't really use string.format myself, so I'm not sure about that... but why not just do this?

cecho("<green>\n\n We have patted " .. patted .. " persons!\n\n")

Siam

I actually tried that prior. Didn't work. Both had this for the error:

[ERROR:] object:<test> function:<Trigger3103>

         <[string "function Trigger3103()..."]:2: attempt to perform arithmetic on global 'patted' 

(a nil value)>

I'm guessing we need to declare that the variable patted is a number? I copied the  patted =  patted + 1 from the mudlet manual though, so I'm not sure what's happening.

Lerad

The "patted" variable hasn't been defined yet. You'll need to define it either on login or before doing the patted = patted + 1 line in the trigger.

Siam

How do I define it without logging out?

Ciaran

patted = patted or 0

Lerad

A simple thing you can do is to just stick

if patted == nil then
    patted = 0
end

Before the arithmetic line.

This might mean that the number is not saved across sessions, though. If you want to keep track of how many times you've used the patted emote across sessions. You'll need to use the loadVars() and saveVars() functions.

Siam

 Wonderful, thank you!

Dysolis

Is there an addon to gun in aetherspace?

Nayl

Siam said:

I just went back to using Mudlet today, and I need your help. I've lost what little I've learned in the past. Basically, I want to capture the amount of esteem I have, and should it be greater than a set amount(for example: 100), I'd like to imbue the captured amount to a figurine. I was thinking of basing it off of QSC. Help, please?

| Siam Star-eyes, Echo of the Wyrd ---------------------------------- #86 |
| Essence: 27,866,684 Power: 10p ( 92%) Karma: 10% Esteem: 156 |
| Health : 4810/4810 Mana : 6175/6300 Ego : 6684/7500 Analytical |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

if tonumber(gmcp.Char.Vitals.esteem) > 100 then

send("imbue "..mm.conf.figurine.." with " ..gmcp.Char.Vitals.esteem.. " esteem", false)

end

Lilianna

Hello! How do I highlight:

You have recovered equilibrium.

I want to be able to keep track of my balance

Kio

match: You have recovered equilibrium.  [set it to "exact match"]

Use this to highlight it:

selectCurrentLine() fg("green") bg("white") deselect() resetFormat()

For an even more flashy stuff, you can also use a colour echo:

cecho("\n<white:purple> [[ Equilibrium is back! Dance like a monkey! ]]")

Lilianna

Thank you.

Another question, I want to set up a trigger to pick up corpses of mobs I kill, I guess it would be something along the lines of:

match: You have slain a gnome.

when(You have recovered equilibrium)

 then (get gnome)

end

how far off is this as I dont see a when command?

Xenthos

For things you kill, you're better off getting an acquisitio enchantment.  An avaricehorn will also automatically scoop up the gold for you, too.

Then you just need triggers to scoop up the things that drop out of the bodies.

Rialorm

I am trying to write a thing where I probe a series of items (this I have and works) and would like to do something based on the number of their respective usefulness left (stick it in a table to work with later down the line). This is where I am stuck. I can send("probe item") and then trigger on the usefulness line, but the for loop will keep going and won't wait for the capture to have happened. So I am wondering if anyone has an idea for another approach to this. Yes, I know I can simply learn audit, but I'd like to spend my credits elsewhere plus it is an interesting problem that I'd like to know how to solve :P

Ssaliss

Hmm. The best I can think of would be to stick the IDs in a table, and everytime you get a probe, you use the first item in that table. You might not be able to trigger solely on the "it has x months of usefulness left" though, as that line doesn't exist for certain items (artifacts, etc). I think the weight line is always there though (either as "It weighs x ouces" or "it is strangely weightless"), so you might be able to do something with that.