Mudlet Help Desk

Tirria

Thanks!

Mjoll

So the mudlet manual says that script scripts are initialized when the profile is loaded, this however has not been my experience. For example I have various variable declarations in a script such as

if generalDefs == nil then generalDefs = {} end

But after opening mudlet and logging in I have to go into script scripts and click on every script to get my variables initialized, if I don't, my functions/aliases/trigger scripts that use these variables all error out.

Easy fixes? Preferences checkbox I missed? Halp plz.

Evalyne

Sacrifice a goat to the mudlet gods, and hope that it actually loads all your modules properly. It's been the struggle of people trying to use my UI as well. Mudlet just drops thing sometimes.

Evalyne

More seriously, try doing it like this:

generalDefs = generalDefs or {}

That will initialize it as an empty table ONLY if it has a non-nil value, which I think is what you're trying to do?

Mjoll

That is what I want, yes! The if statement is how the manual suggested it be done, I'll try your suggestion, thanks!


Edit: That seems to have done the trick! Thank you very much

Mykellah

Theres the right way and then theres the mudlet way, unfortunately

Belgarion

Well, long time player, first time poster here..mostly cause I've never used mudlet in the rest of my time playing. I've got a million questions, but right now, my main question is...how would I got about making a button that would sit there, and if I have balance and eq, it would be colored one color, and it would color differently when I didn't. I'd love it if it had 4 colors. 1 for has eq and bal, 1 for has one but not the other, 1 for the other, and 1 for when i have none

pretend my balance variable is Balance and for equilibrium it is EQ

Xenia

Belgarion said:

Well, long time player, first time poster here..mostly cause I've never used mudlet in the rest of my time playing. I've got a million questions, but right now, my main question is...how would I got about making a button that would sit there, and if I have balance and eq, it would be colored one color, and it would color differently when I didn't. I'd love it if it had 4 colors. 1 for has eq and bal, 1 for has one but not the other, 1 for the other, and 1 for when i have none

pretend my balance variable is Balance and for equilibrium it is EQ

Hey, so there are a few ways to tackle this. I don't know how good you are at learning off of examples but after playing around with the following pubilc scripts in Mudlet forums I was able to replicate something similar to what you wanted. If you install the UI package from this and then comb through to study how the healthbars use coloring, you can repurpose it based on a trigger. Additionally, look around on this UI layout and decide where you'd want your own info to be laid aout and play around as you construct your own UI.

https://forums.mudlet.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4098

Good luck!

Toz

Put this in a script, just by itself- it'll create the label for you on profile creation.
baleq = Geyser.Label:new({ name = "baleq", x = "90%", y = "90%", width = "10%", height = "10%", fgColor = "black", color = "SeaGreen", message = [[<center>BALEQ</center>]] })

Feel free to modify as needed- basically it puts it on the bottom right-hand corner of Mudlet.

Then, you just change the background color:
baleq:setColor("red")

So you'd track on prompt (ugh I hate prompt triggers) for the easy mode, and use gmcp:
if gmcp.Char.Vitals.balance == "1" and gmcp.Char.Vitals.equilibrium == "1" then baleq:setColor("red") elseif gmcp.Char.Vitals.balance == "0" and gmcp.Char.Vitals.equilibrium == "1" then baleq:setColor("green") elseif gmcp.Char.Vitals.balance == "1" and gmcp.Char.Vitals.equilibrium == "0" then baleq:setColor("pink") else baleq:setColor("blue") end

Aros

So. I've got a queueing script that fires on my prompt. written in a bit for anti spam, but I've noticed that when my prompt fires multiple commands still get sent. Essentially, this script is firing at the same time, independently, when multiple prompts are given. Any ideas on how I can get around this?

function spamCheck(spam)

	if table.index_of(aros.Spam, spam) == nil then
		return true
	else
		return false
	end

end

function spamAdd(spams)

	if table.index_of(aros.Spam, spams) == nil then
		table.insert(aros.Spam, spams)
		echo("Spam List: " .. spams)
		tempTimer(.5, tempRegexTrigger("^H", table.remove(aros.Spam, table.index_of(aros.Spam, spams)), 1))
	end

function queueCall()
	if aros.CanAct == true then
		
		if aros.Queues.none ~= nil then 
			for i,v in ipairs(aros.Queues.none) do
				if spamCheck("queuenone")and aros.Can.equilibrium == true and aros.Can.balance == true and aros.Can.writhing == false and table.index_of(aros.Afflictions.List, "paralysis") == nil then
					if table.index_of(aros.Defences.Missing, v) ~= nil then
						spamAdd("queuenone")
						send(defenceLists.commands[v])
						table.remove(aros.Queues.none, table.index_of(aros.Defences.Missing, v))
					end
				end
			end
		end
				
	end
end

Haven

@Aros I usually add in another limiter that resets based on a timer before my system is allowed to try again. I'm not sure what the Mudlet equivalent is but for MUSHclient it looks like:

if (limiter.herb == false and herb_bal == true) then limiter.herb = true DoAfterSpecial (.25 + RetardTimer, 'limiter.herb = false', sendto.script) Execute ("outc antipsychotic//eat antipsychotic") end

Evalyne

Best way on TF or mudlet is to timestamp your last command and compare time to the last sent command, if it has not exceeded that time, then queue the action.

Aros

Hrm. How would you go about time stamping your commands? And Haven, I think that's pretty well what I do with my spamCheck function. Thanks for the responses!

Edit: I do recall seeing something recently about Mudlet introducing something like a #wait or #stop but I can't find where I wrote that. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

Evalyne

I'd save the results of date() on each command that goes through. There's probably better ways now than what Im familiar with from years ago, though.

Aros

So I've been delving into databases with mudlet here and I've encountered a curiosity or perhaps an oddity and I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing or a quirk of mudlet. 

In every manner that I've tried for updating, deleting and changing both manually and using the automatic functions I cannot seem to get the database to write over an old line. I'll explain better with this example:

I create a database where I keep track of enemies based on city etc.

Each new person has their own line

1: x
2: y
3: z

however, if I modify in any way, delete and resubmit, etcetera (or when I have the database set as replace), if I try and update x's information it changes it to a new line each time. So I have a database that has 50 items in it yet they're on line 132, 133, 134 etcetera.

Is there a way to get insert information in a database overtop of an existing line or will it forever create new ones?

Legyn

I have a question about databases.

I want to use a database to track afflictions:

db:create("affdb", {afflist = {"curename", "affprio", "affname"}, _unique = { "affname" }})

Curename's the name of the pill/poultice, affprio is the cure priority, and affname is the name of the affliction. The idea is th

at I can pull the curename from a trigger and run through the affprio until I hit an affname that's on the table I use to track my target's afflictions so I can remove it.

The database works fine when I test it out with basic commands like db:get_database, db:fetch, and db:eq. I can't get _unique and _index to work properly, but whatever. I can always use local variables.

The real problem is that I cannot figure out how to get the affname that goes with the curename and affprio variables. As far as I can tell from the Mudlet wiki, I'm supposed to use db:fetch to create a table with the curename and affprio (this part works) and use the table's key to get the affname variable (this part does not work). Is there a better way to do this?

Saidenn

I am pretty sure tables do the same purpose for what you are looking for without the need for databases. You can populate a key/value table in mudlet 

Then you can use table.index_of and table.contains and for statements to check for key value pairs in pairs and ipairs.

From what I have noticed databases in mudlet act wonky and table functions work more accurately and smoothly. 

I will add examples when I get home.

Legyn

I started with lists at first, but I couldn't get Mudlet to recognize a variable as a table reference, so I couldn't successfully create a trigger that would automatically reference the Depressant table, for example. Using variables to reference indexes and values worked fine, so I hoped using a database would give an easier way to do it.

Mjoll

nameSpace.tableReference[thisIsAVariable] will spit out whatever the value of that table reference is.

Legyn

I'll try that and cross my fingers. Thanks!

Benedicto

After Mudlet update, my chat capture UI seems to have stopped capturing Xterm colours but for the life of me I can't figure out why!

Does anyone know what might have caused this/a potential fix for it?