a really pointless little alias I wrote

Reyl

So this isn't exactly a work of staggering genius but I wanted to make an alias list for when I forget my aliases (which is always!), only I wanted it to be elegant, so I wasted like an hour of my life making this: 

I know it's nothing remarkable, but since I spent so long on something nobody else is ever going to see I thought I'd share the "code" here, so that someone else can adapt it for themselves:

<p style="margin: 0px;"><!--StartFragment-->echo("\n\n")</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">cecho(string.format([[<antique_white>.------------------------------------------------------------------------------.</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| <orange_red>So you forgot your aliases again? <antique_white>|</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">|<a_darkmagenta> GEOMANCY <antique_white>|</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tuning - tune poison/cutting/asphyx |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| twirl - twirl staff duh |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| demup - demesne the slow way |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| fexup - works outside demesne too! |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| quake - the quick way! |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| ccc - chasm! |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">|<dark_orchid> PSIONICS <antique_white>|</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tb1 - choke/throatlock/burst |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tb2 - trip/burst/throatlock |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tc1 - choke/burst/clot/throatlock |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tbs - burst/bodyscan - trigger for heartburst! |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tkl - burst/fistleg/fistleg |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tka - burst/fistarm/fistarm |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tkb - burst/fisthead/fistchest |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| tkf - alteraura/fisthead/fling! |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| dcb - dagger/choke/barrier |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">|<MediumPurple> PHANTASMS <antique_white>|</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| phantom - weave phantom |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| claws - weave claws |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| redmask - weave redmask |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">| |</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">'------------------------------------------------------------------------------']]))</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">echo("\n\n")<!--EndFragment--></p>

Please do let me know if I've done anything particularly dumb, or if there's a better way and I totally wasted my time! Maybe if I feel the need to waste more time I'll play around with it some more.

Reyl

Eep! Just realised the spaces are out in the first section - I fixed it on mine, but when I tried to edit the post to fix it there it broke the code tag ;-;

Apologies for the double post!

Reyl

Here is a ~teaser~ for my next pointless alias...... stay tuned

or not

P.S: Anybody know how to get colour working properly with echoLink? Tried setting formatting with setBg() or w/e then specifying to use the main window, like the manual says, but it didn't work. This is why I hate scripting!

Estwald

Cool.

Reyl

I'm too shy to make a thread for this, but I was looking for a way to capture a comma seperated value, like the amount of power in a nexus, and I found this perfect little function (at http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Strip_a_set_of_characters_from_a_string#Lua) :

function stripchars( str, chr )<br>local s = ""<br>for g in str:gmatch( "[^"..chr.."]" ) do<br>s = s .. g<br>end<br>return s<br>end<br>

For novices like me, what you do is paste this into a new script in mudlet, and call it something sensible, then save it. Then when you want to work with a number that's all messed up by commas, ie capturing it and doing maths with it, you do something like

<br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">Trigger line:</span></font><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">^The power of the nexus is at (.+).</span></font><br><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">Script:</span></font><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">if nexuspower == "" then</span></font><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;"> nexuspower = stripchars(matches[2], ",")</span></font><br><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;= tonumber(</span></font><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">)</span></font><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">cecho("<SpringGreen>\n Didn't find an existing value for nexus power! Resetting from capture.")</span></font><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">else</span></font><br><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">new</span></font><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;= stripchars(matches[2], ",")</span></font><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">new</span></font><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;= tonumber(new</span></font><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">)</span></font><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">powerchange = new</span></font><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;-&nbsp;</span></font><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><br><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;= new</span></font><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">nexuspower</span><br><font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal;">cecho("<SpringGreen></span></font><springgreen style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">\n The Megalith is at " ..<span style="font-size: medium;">nexuspower</span>.. " power")<br>cecho("<SpringGreen><springgreen>\n You added " ..powerchange.. " power")<br>permittedlinks = permittedlinks + powerchange / 2<br>cecho("<SpringGreen><springgreen>\n You may draw " ..permittedlinks.. " links")<br><br>end<br></springgreen></springgreen></springgreen>
There are a few more things needed to make this script work properly - a way to reset those variables, and a way to deduct a link each time you draw one. I added simple lines for that to the power management script I found floating around (a credit to its mysterious creator!)

BUT

What I couldn't do is find a way to factor in my ration allowed by the city each weave regardless of donation - how can I make something happen when the date changes? And what exactly IS a 'weave' anyway? Is it the same 25 hour period as a lusternian day, or is it a server reset time that's totally OOC, or what? Help ;-;

Aeral

Reyl - I didn't do it for all of my aliases, but I do have it for all of my main combat ones.

Can be useful especially since I've changed a lot of the aliases.

Dys

A weave is a real life day, it changes at midnight GMT. So an IC explanation for one OOC day.

Neos

Did you use one of the example custom prompts in the m&m docs? If so, that one was my original custom prompt, before I changed it around. /random statement/observation

Reyl

I did, hehe. Fairly happy with it as is, I used to have my target there but I got rid of it again. I deleted a few things from the example to save clutter too, ie why does it have both xp so far and xp remaining?

Vadi

Reyl said:

P.S: Anybody know how to get colour working properly with echoLink? Tried setting formatting with setBg() or w/e then specifying to use the main window, like the manual says, but it didn't work. This is why I hate scripting!

You need to add 'true' at the end of echoLink so it knows to use your formatting and not the default... computers aren't always clever

Reyl

Figured I'd resurrect this dumb thread rather than make a new one: here's a sloppy five-minute trigger that non-americans might find useful? It just gives you the US east/west times when you type TIME. It doesn't account for daylight time, but that doesn't really concern me as I only made it so i could have a quick way to check why nobody seemed to be online!

PATTERN:

^In your world, it is \d{4}\/\d{2}\/\d{2} (\d{2})\:(\d{2})\:\d{2} GMT.$

SCRIPT:

local hour = matches[2]

local minute = matches[3]

--[[ if you wanted to change this, ie to account for daylight time or adapt it for a

different timezone obviously you would just change it to (hour +/- x)]]

cecho("\n<dodger_blue> US EAST | WEST: "..((hour - 5) % 12)..":"..minute.."|"..((hour - 8) % 12)..":"..minute)

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IF YOU CBF USING YR IMAGINATION: