[MudWalker] Feature Request

[Michael Beatty]

On Sep 23, 2004, at 5:16 PM, Tim burke wrote:

> Trigger groups, with the ability to enable and disable groups of
> triggers.  Also, control clicking of triggers with an edit option from
> the Triggers window.

It definitely would be nice to group triggers by group.

> Also, speedwalking would be nice, this is a zMud
> feature, example:

Here's one of the speedwalk aliases I use.  You'll need to modify it a 
little to work with your mud if it uses more than the six cardinal 
directions, or if you need to open / close doors in between.

Make sure the alias is type Lua.

alias: &

-- script start
-- current direction
local dir
-- hold number of steps, eg '9s'
local num = 0
-- current character
local cur
-- swalk is our speedwalk string, eg "9s3e12w"
local swalk

-- set up a list of direction names
dirname[ "n" ] = "north"
dirname[ "s" ] = "south"
dirname[ "w" ] = "west"
dirname[ "e" ] = "east"
dirname[ "u" ] = "up"
dirname[ "d" ] = "down"


-- if we're not standing or floating, get up
if stance ~= "stand" and stance ~= "float" then
   send( "stand" )
end

-- sw is global map of speedwalks - for instance, sw[ "ju2dm" ] = 
"8w8n2e3n4w3n2w2n5w"
-- the sw map is initialized in the connection script
-- if we input something like "& ju2dm" then execute the stored 
speedwalk otherwise treat as literal
if sw[ arg[1] ] then
   swalk = sw[ arg[1] ]
else
   swalk = arg[1]
end

-- continue executing as long as swalk is not empty
while swalk and swalk ~= "" do
   -- store first character in cur
   cur   = string.sub( swalk, 1, 1 )
   -- store all but first character back into swalk
   swalk = string.sub( swalk, 2,
             string.len( swalk ) )

   if tonumber( cur ) then
     num = num * 10 + tonumber( cur )
   else
     dir = cur
     if num == 0 then
       send( dirname[dir] )
     else
       for i = 1, num do
         send( dirname[dir] )
       end
       num = 0
     end
   end
end
-- script end

To use this, just type "& 2e4s5u3w" into the mudwalker window.  The 
script would send:
east
east
south
south
south
south
up
up
up
up
up
west
west
west

Note that the script sends the entire speedwalk at once - this can 
cause you to lag or possibly only execute part of the speedwalk for 
very long speedwalks.  I don't think Mudwalker currently has any way to 
pause between messages.

-- 
Michael Beatty | proto at beattys.us