Loading Triggers and Aliases Question

1. I have a lot of triggers and aliases from ZMUD that I would like to import to MushClient. What format do they need to be in, and how would I go about doing this?
I tried looking up Load and Import in the help, but no luck there.

2. In ZMUD I could export my settings, work on them with notepad and import them again. Can I do the same thing with MushClient?

Thank you for your help on my first post, syntax is everything :)

Boca (who is now has some aliases and triggers working)

There is no import facility right now, although you could do it with a script that did a whole lot of "addtrigger"s.

However I am a bit doubtful how useful that would be, as zMUD and MUSHclient use different regular expressions for one thing, and zMUD has inline scripting, whereas MUSHclient calls scripts in a script file.

If they were simple triggers/aliases, which were not regular expressions, and did no scripting, then it could probably be done quite easily.

Perhaps if you export the triggers/aliases you are interested in, and post them here, or email them to me, I'll see if it could be done. If so, I'll do a script that would import them, and you could use that.

I can copy and paste most of my triggers/aliases over with no problem. However, I have some complicated triggers that I would not know how to do in MushClient. Following is one of them which is very important to me - it takes a TEST emote from the leader and automatically creates a trigger to pick up the target. So if the leader is Ohio and he emotes this: Ohio will send the TEST to the moon!
this trigger is created: ^Ohio will send the (%w)

then the mob is loaded to the variable target and
I show the target (only to myself) on the screen.

How would this be done in MushClient?

Here is the ZMUD trigger
Pattern: ^@leader (*)TEST(*)
Value: #UNTR {^@leader %1(%w)}
#TR {^<@leader> %1(%w)} {
#var target %%1
#show Target is ~>~> @target ~<~<
}

I decided to go ahead and register my copy of MushClient, I am very impressed by your responsiveness.
Thank you for your continued support.
Boca

OK - I have worked out a replacement for that, I think. :)

MUSHclient doesn't let you put variable names into the trigger match text (however you can use them in the trigger response), so as I see it you have three steps here:

1. Define who the leader is, so the first trigger matches properly.
2. Make a trigger that matches on the leader sending the TEST line
3. Make a trigger that matches when the leader changes targets

First, I made an alias to detect the name of the leader changing:


Alias: LEADER *
Enabled: checked
Label: Leader
Script: OnLeader


Then add the following lines to your script file, or make a new script file with them in it. Language: VBscript.

---

There are three subroutines (subs) here, which I have made in bold, although in practice you would not use bold.

OnLeader is called from the alias, and adds the trigger "LeaderEmote" which matches on the name of the leader (wildcard 1) saying (.*)TEST(.*). It also displays the leader name on the output window as confirmation that it matched. Note the alias is case-sensitive.

Thus, you might type:

LEADER Ohio

Then when the leader emotes his line "Ohio will send the TEST to the moon!" this calls the trigger labelled LeaderEmote which calls the sub OnAddTarget.

This sub generates the third trigger, that matches on the target's name.

Have fun with it. :)

When I look over my answer I think it might be too complicated, but let me know if I have misunderstood the question. :)

You answered my question, but I don't understand this syntax for the line starting with strWildcardsArray (1):

world.AddTrigger "PickUpTarget", _
"^" + leader + " " + _
strWildcardsArray (1) + "(.+)", _
"", 1 + 32 + 1024, -1, 0, "",
Could you explain it please?

Also, you very nicely commented in the script what the flags 1, 32, and 1024 meant - is there a list of them somewhere?
What is the -1 and 0?

Sorry to be so dense, but this stuff reads like a foreign language to me.

One more question - I will be picking up the leaders name from a trigger: ^You now follow (*)
could I send something like this to the mud to load the variable leader?

/world.setvariable "Leader", %1

Thanks,
Boca

It is all documented in the functions page:


http://www.gammon.com.au/mushclient/functions.htm




You only use the slash when typing a script function into the command window. In a script itself it isn't needed. To get the first wildcard you would do this:


world.setvariable "Leader", strWildcardsArray (1)


I loaded the alias and script which set the leader and created the target emote (exactly as you described below in the message dated Fri 20 Jul 2001 10:21 PM).

The trigger being created is picking up everything from the TEST on as part of the target. Here is a real example:

The alias to set leader (Leader Solace) works fine and I get:
Leader is >> Solace <<

and it called a script which created this trigger:
Solace (.*)TEST(.*)

When the TEST emote was given (Solace will send the fido to the moon!), it called another script and created this trigger:
^Solace will send the (.+)

then when Solace emoted a target next (Solace will send the fido to the moon!), this is what I got:
Target is >> fido to the moon! <<

So it picked up everthing from the TEST on as the target. How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Boca

In the trigger that matches on TEST you need to change the trigger it generates slightly.

It needs to match on: (\w+) .*

This will match on one word, and then discard whatever follows that word.

In other words, change the AddTrigger slightly, the changed part is in bold: