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Video showing how to make a targetting alias

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Fri 24 Jul 2009 12:55 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 26 Nov 2013 12:39 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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I have made a video showing how to make a targetting alias. This covers a lot of the material in the Making Aliases part of the forum.

http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=8084

It can be watched at: How to make a targeting alias in MUSHclient. An imbedded copy is below on this page.

Constructive comments are welcome, for example is it too fast, too slow, not enough detail, and so on.




- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Hanaisse   Canada  (114 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #1 on Fri 24 Jul 2009 03:47 AM (UTC)
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Wow, this was great Nick! It was like being in a classroom with the teacher right there looking over your shoulder helping you along. I'm a very visual learner, and while the original post had screen shots this was much easier to follow and actually see the immediate results.

I also watched the plugin video. Again, excellent. I found them just the right speed to follow. I haven't yet created my own plugin but I did learn from this video to be careful with existing aliases/triggers/etc and to get rid of them if they aren't necessary for the specific plugin (I guarantee I would have left them in and posted "Why is this...")

I hope there will be more. There's lots of tips and tricks I'm sure you can teach us. :)

aka: Hana
Owner in Training of: Fury of the Gods
alm-dev.org:4000
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #2 on Fri 24 Jul 2009 04:18 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 01 Sep 2009 09:17 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Thank you for the supportive comments. Glad you liked it.

Just for the record, the aliases used in the tutorial appear below:


<aliases>
 
  <alias
   match="t *"
   enabled="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>

SetVariable ("target", "%1")

ColourNote ("white", "blue", "Target is now: %1")

SetStatus ("Target: %1")

</send>
  </alias>


 <alias
   match="k"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>kill @target</send>
  </alias>


  <alias
   match="p"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>punch @target</send>
  </alias>


  <alias
   match="bs"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>backstab @target</send>
  </alias>


</aliases>



Template:pasting For advice on how to copy the above, and paste it into MUSHclient, please see Pasting XML.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Teapot   Australia  (9 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #3 on Fri 24 Jul 2009 06:24 AM (UTC)
Message
These videos are a great idea. I think they'll make learning to use MUSHclient much easier for new users.
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #4 on Sat 25 Jul 2009 01:07 AM (UTC)
Message
If you didn't add CC or Annotations, that would help too for those who are deaf.

Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #5 on Sat 25 Jul 2009 04:05 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 26 Nov 2013 12:41 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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I've added CC to the targetting video - it is pretty time-consuming to do, but at least I have learnt a new trick ... how to closed caption my own video.

In case anyone is wondering, I had to make a file with the timecode on it, what the caption line is, and a blank line, once every few seconds, like this:


00:00:00.00
I'm going to show today how to make a targeting alias

00:00:03.63
which lets you target mobs in MUSHclient

00:00:06.86
and that lets you just type in the name once to target them

00:00:10.86
and then do other actions such as kicking them, punching them

00:00:14.83
without having to type their name all the time

00:00:17.38
like, for example, "minotaur" is  a fairly lengthy name to have to type

00:00:22.66
on every command


Supposedly it gets translated into other languages automatically, it would be interesting to hear if it comes out reasonably, or as complete gibberish.

[EDIT] The video has been moved to Vimeo which does not currently support closed-captioning.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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