Trying to set up a Mini-Window

Hiya folks!

So I am trying to convert the mini-window plugin written by Fiendish to be able to work with the MUSH I am playing on, as found here: http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?id=10728&page=1

The mush I am playing uses Chat Channels such as:
<General>, <Code>, <+Tech>

I am also trying to capture the Pages that get sent to me, and the ones I send out. All forms of communication have the ability to accept a "pose". Meaning that on the channel a person could do a pose, which would omit the usual: <General> Alfie says, "go Marlins!" and instead would be <General> Alfie cheers on the Marlins.

Pages are similar to that, but don't have the say/s portion for that direct communication.

If you need more examples of the Channels, I can post them.

What have I tried to do? Simple, convert the You say/tell/ooc to the channels. However, I am thinking that the open and close carrots <> are causing a problem with this. :S

Here is an example of the converted trigger:
<trigger
enabled="y"
match="<General>"
script="chats"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
></trigger>

Any help you can give me, would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

You're correct about the <>. Plugins are XML files, so you have to play nice with the quirks of the XML parser.

Replace "<General>" with "&lt;General&gt;"

You'll also either want to throw * on the end of that or convert it to a regular expression match, because otherwise it won't fire if anything comes after the channel tag. MUSHclient's non-regex matching requires that the pattern matches the entire line, not just part of it.

Thank you Fiendish, I thought that was the case, but LUA is vastly different in someways over zScript (zMud, cMud). :) I'll be tinkering with that when I get home and have access to the plugin I set up there. :)

Strictly speaking these are different things. XML is used in MUSHclient to import/save world files, and also for copying things like triggers to the clipboard. Lua (not LUA - it is a name not an acronym) is one of the programming languages used to write scripts in.

Since XML has a special meaning for the characters "< > &" then any XML file needs to change those to &lt; &gt; and &amp; respectively.

There is an action in the inbuilt editor (press Ctrl+Alt+Space to get an editor window) which will do that for you. If you paste some text into an editor window, and then select it and choose Convert -> Convert HTML special, then those characters will be converted for you.

Thank you very much Nick, I'll give that a shot! :D

Now, with a Mush, you can pose into pages, and coming from a MUD, I guess it is similar to a Tell, but with the option for emoting an action. Still can't get the mini window to grab the chat channels, yet. On the subject of the pages though, I have no idea where I'm going wrong with it. I'm basically copying something that I know to work, finger for example, and trying to apply it to the pages like this:

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="* just fingered you."
script="chats"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
></trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="Long distance to * "
script="chats"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
></trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="From afar,"
script="chats"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
></trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="* (*) pages:"
script="chats"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
></trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="pages: *"
script="chats"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
></trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="You page *: * "
script="chats"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
></trigger>

Can you post (copy/paste) examples of what you think should be matching those triggers, and doesn't?

This one, for example:



That is only going to match "From afar," and not anything else, like "From afar, Nick smiles".

For the pages with posing:
From afar, Rannick (Rannick) Test
Long distance to Rannick, Hoshi Test

For vanilla Paging:
Rannick (Rannick) pages: Test
You page Rannick: Test

Some people have an alias with their name set, and that will show up in the parenthesis. Most do not though.

As Nick says, your trigger patterns are set up incorrectly for MUSHclient.
It looks like you hit a common trap for people coming from other clients.

Nick has a page here about how trigger patterns work (among other details):
https://www.mushclient.com/scripts/doc.php?general=triggers

My wiki also has a section specifically describing the conflict between different clients:
https://github.com/fiendish/aardwolfclientpackage/wiki/Writing-Triggers#i-tried-making-a-trigger-but-it-isnt-firing-what-did-i-do-wrong

A simple thing to change for that trigger is to add a wildcard, eg.



That asterisk matches whatever follows "From afar, ". Similarly for other triggers. For example:



Should be: