How can I track the runes required for Death Prophesy?

Kio

Right.  What I want to do is be able to track the runes that come up for Death Prophesy (there will be five of them) and track them via an echo.  The goal is to, after the runes have hit, be able to call an alias which will echo what runes were chosen so I can adapt on the fly.

You sling a nyd rune at Johan, hitting him in the chest.

The ominous image of a rune appears briefly in the air before you.

The rune of ur:

     ______

    /           \

   |     | \     |

   |     | |     |

   |     |       |

    \______/

This is how DP shows the runes selected.  I want to track "The rune of (x):" so that I can watch what afflictions I'm needing to stick.  The problem is, it will by the exact same line, so I don't know how to create different variables for each one.  Basically, when all the runes have hit, I want to be able to show something like:

+----------------------------------------+

|      DEATH PROPHESY:     |

|   rune1         rune2              |

|   rune3         rune4              |

|   rune5                               |

+----------------------------------------+

Any ideas?  

Elanorwen

Trigger the ending of death prophesy (positive or negative) to set the rune variables to false or nil.

On receiving the next rune of the list, do a check of something like: "if not dprune1 then dprune1 = whatever else if not dprune2 then dprune2 = whatever" and so on.

Ushaara

If I understand what you're asking properly, using a table seems easiest. Following is for Mudlet (the matches[2] for wildcard).

^The rune of (\w+)\:$

death_runes = death_runes or {}
local rune = matches[2]
table.insert(death_runes, rune)

Then for your display, you just need to pull the runes from the table, so things like death_runes[1], death_runes[2] etc.

Ciaran

match: ^The rune of (\w+)\:$

script:

local rune = matches[2]

runetable = runetable or {}

table.insert(runetable, rune)

I don't know what it looks like when you hit the last rune of the 5 but I'll show you how to print the table:

echo("+----------------------------------------+")

echo("|      DEATH PROPHESY:     |")

echo("|   " .. runetable[1] .."         " .. runetable[2] .."              |")

echo("|   " .. runetable[3] .."         " .. runetable[4] .."              |")

echo("|   " .. runetable[5] .."                               |")

echo("+----------------------------------------+")

And finally, when you deathprophesy (successfully or unsuccessfully) You'll want to reset your runetable like this:

runetable = {}

Kio

I'll give this a go!  Thank you!

I'll probably have more questions about this later, also.

Akyaevin

You'll get errors using that exact code: you'll get "attempt to concatenate a nil value" errors when the table isn't fully populated (i.e. when you don't know all the runes). If you don't mind them being in one column, you can use 

for _,r in pairs(runetable) do echo(r) end

Alternatively, you could have, at the start, something like

firstRune = runetable[1] or "unknown"

secondRune = runetable[2] or "unknown"

then just do

echo("| "..firstRune.."   "..secondRune.. " |")

(neaten it up first, of course).

Kio

Akyaevin said:

You'll get errors using that exact code: you'll get "attempt to concatenate a nil value" errors when the table isn't fully populated (i.e. when you don't know all the runes). If you don't mind them being in one column, you can use 

for _,r in pairs(runetable) do echo(r) end

Alternatively, you could have, at the start, something like

firstRune = runetable[1] or "unknown"

secondRune = runetable[2] or "unknown"

then just do

echo("| "..firstRune.."   "..secondRune.. " |")

(neaten it up first, of course).

I'll try the second, as I have no idea how to make sense of the first.

Also, I put this in the echo part, correct?  This is saying that if the variable has not been defined, it will show "unknown," but if it is defined in the table, it will show "firstrune," correct?