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MDK 1.1.0 release: Logging and Command lines and Background Pics OH MY!

To go along with the Mudlet 4.10 release, here is MDK 1.1.0

demontools.lua

collection of useful functions which I use multiple places or do not fit in another class per se. Color converting functions, mkdir_p functionality, getValueAt (used to turn "gmcp.Char.Vitals" into the actual gmcp.Char.Vitals table), and others.

loggingconsole.lua

Do you want your miniconsole to log itself? OF COURSE YOU DO! Put this on your plate and eat it up then.
Supports all the Geyser.MiniConsole goodness you're used to. HELL YEAH!
Adds new templated constraints path and fileName. Allows you to setup automated rotation by replacing |y with year, |m with the month as 2 digits, |d with the day of the month as two digits, |n as the name of the miniconsole, |e as the file extension(base on logFormat) and |h as the output of getMudletHomeDir(). So if your path is "|h/log/consoleLogs/|y/|m|d" and your fileName is "|n.|e" then your logs will daily rotate into new folders without you having to worry about it.
Adds logFormat constraint. "h" logs in html, "l" logs in ansi colored log format, "t" logs in plain text.
generated html verified readable on ada-young (but the html source is ugly, do not recommend looking at the raw text)

Command line, background image, and logging support for EMCO

I added support for the miniconsole command lines and background images to EMCO. I find it best to perhaps show with an example.

After installing the mpackage from github, the following < 50 lines of code create a set of chat tabs in an adjustable container with gmcp message handling in Lusternia, including logging, sending the commandline from CT to the ct channel, the CGT commands to the CGT channel, and a background image. Image used is a joke meme someone posted on the Mudlet discord. Picture below, showing the image and the different 'modes' (same as Mudlet's setBackgroundImage for miniconsoles.). The logging requires you also include loggingconsole.lua and demontools.lua.

Add a trigger for "Password correct. Welcome to Lusternia." which does

sendGMCP([[Core.Supports.Add ["IRE.Target 1"] ]])
sendGMCP([[Core.Supports.Add ["Comm.Channel 1"] ]])

The script itself which drives everything is:

local EMCO = require("MDK-1.EMCO")
emcoContainer = emcoContainer or Adjustable.Container:new({name = "EMCOCon"})
chatEMCO = EMCO:new({
  name = "Chatbox",
  x = 0,
  y = 0,
  height = "100%",
  width = "100%",
  consoles = { "All", "CT", "CGT", "Tells", "Misc", "Map" },
  allTab = true,
  allTabName = "All",
  mapTab = true,
  mapTabName = "Map",
  blankLine = true,
  blink = true,
  timestamp = true,
  fontSize = 12,
  commandLine = true,
  cmdActions = {
    CT = "ct |t",
    CGT = function(txt) send("cgt " .. txt) end,
  },
  backgroundImages = {
    CT = {
      image = "/home/demonnic/Pictures/i-am-the-mud-client-now.png", --edit for your own image
      mode = "center"
    }
  }
}, emcoContainer)

local function chatCapture()
  local info = gmcp.Comm.Channel.Text
  if info.channel:starts("tell ") then
    info.channel = "Tells"
  elseif not table.contains(chatEMCO.consoles, info.channel:upper()) then
    debugc("GMCP channel that isn't in console list: " .. info.channel)
    info.channel = "Misc"
  else
    info.channel = info.channel:upper()
  end
  local txt = ansi2decho(info.text)
  chatEMCO:decho(info.channel,txt)
end
if chatCaptureEventID then
  killAnonymousEventHandler(chatCaptureEventID)
end
chatCaptureEventID = registerAnonymousEventHandler("gmcp.Comm.Channel.Text", chatCapture)

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020142/uploads/editor/8p/9ia5jz2urxi1.gif

demonnic

Re: QUOTES 8: THE QUOTING

(Ironhart Collective): Ashira says, "I'm pretty much the only dwarf around these days..."
(Ironhart Collective): Jolanthe says, "You might say that racial demographic is quite... dwarved by the others."
(Ironhart Collective): Celaphaeia says, "I would like a new alliance, please."
(Ironhart Collective): Eritheyl says, "Targeting Jolanthe."
(Ironhart Collective): You say, "No targeting Jolanthe!"
(Ironhart Collective): Llani says, "They always seem to come up short."
(Ironhart Collective): You say, "...Nn."
(Ironhart Collective): Lysandus says, "Oh boy."
(Ironhart Collective): Sutekh says, "Celaphaeia prefers the *new* clan...goru, it seems."

Xiran

Re: Letters of Note

Gurashi,

Who you are friends with, especially a contemptible bug one is not my

concern or really worth the dirt on my boot as a reason for entry.

That said, your request seems harmless enough. Your access within the

borders of the Engine of Transformation is granted for 15 months with a

few basic stipulations. Keep your buggy buffoonery away from the

Megalith of Doom or other public spaces. There is to be no gnawing on or

otherwise disturbing city property. Beyond that, common sense applies to

respect from a visitor.

-- Kalas @Zagreus, Minister of Security

Gurashi

Re: Announce Post #3069: Action Line Customisation

To assist in selecting which gnomeweapon you would like to customise, and because we've just dug all these out for someone via email and might as well - here are all of the death lines (i.e. the unchangeable lines) for gnomeweapons.

Parasol:

TARGET dies from the discharge of OBJECT.

Cane:

TARGET expires from the impact of OBJECT.

Gloves:

TARGET has been shot down by OBJECT.

Pen:

The final moments of TARGET have been written by OBJECT.

Clock:

OBJECT has counted the remaining seconds of the life of TARGET.

Cat/Dog:

TARGET has been killed by the laser death stare of OBJECT.

Spider:

TARGET has met their end in the deadly web of OBJECT.

Top Hat:

TARGET has been slapped into oblivion by OBJECT.

Goggles:

TARGET has succumbed to the death stare of OBJECT.

Apron:

The contents of OBJECT have battered TARGET to a pulp.

Aonia

Re: Real World Raves

I've just had a really good day. Went bouldering with my ex at some local crags, then at a nearby climbing wall when that was too wet and cold. Got some good footage of me going up a kinda fiddly problem. It was good. Got news my new bass guitar is finally arriving tomorrow, and now I'm having some stir fry with some devastatingly good fried tofu before dnd in a couple of hours, and it's just been a hecking awesome day.

Faelorna

Mudlet 4.10 – extra command lines, background images, and more

This release has been a long time coming, thanks to the vagaries of obtaining a new code signing certificate for our Windows builds. Consequently there are a lot of changes which made it into Mudlet 4.10. Let’s go over some of the highlights!

Extra command lines

You’ve been asking for it, you waited patiently, now thanks to Edru you can have… multiple command lines! Whenever you want a second one for role-playing, your chat window to have configuration, or anything else, this is now possible:

extra command line

To turn on a commandline in a miniconsole, see here. To create a stand-alone, free floating command line, see here.

Background images for miniconsoles

You know what else you’ve been waiting and asking for? Background images on miniconsoles! Edru has been on a roll!

This also means that the usual c/d/heho color formatting functions now accept transparency as a parameter. See here on how to set a background image.

This also means that you can try setting a background image for the main window as well – but you might find that games often hardcode the black background, so it’s not ideal.

Math in Geyser

Have you been struggling to get your Geyser elements lined up just right and wished you could nudge it over just a few pixels? Been avoiding Geyser and using another option so you could have math in your constraints? Well, now you can use Geyser and receive all of its updates and use math in your constraints.

This means for example if you have a 32×32 label you want to center you can do so by using Label1:move(“50%-16px“,“50%+10px“), or using “50%-16px” for both the x and y when making the label.

Other Geyser Improvements

Geyser.Label also allows you to use “nocolor” as the text color, which will then allow for coloring the text via CSS. It also picked up the Geyser.Label:rawEcho(txt) function, which skips over all the formatting assistance normally provided by Geyser.Label:echo().

Geyser.MiniConsole gains Geyser.MiniConsole:display() which works just like regular display(), but outputs in the miniconsole instead of your main display.

Tired of copying things to a miniconsole and not being able to click them? Wish you could keep your MXP links intact in a miniconsole? Well, now you can! Edru once again stepped up to the plate for this one.

New color functions for feedTriggers

Have you struggled to test your color triggers? Tired of hand-crafting escape sequences when using feedTriggers()? Well, Demonnic was even if you weren’t, so he added some new functions for working with feedTriggers. decho2ansi() and hecho2ansi() will take any decho or hecho string and return an ansi colored string. The functions are used by the new feedTriggers variants, dfeedTriggers and hfeedTriggers which allow for you to send colored text to the trigger engine for testing your color triggers. Also added is cfeedTriggers, which uses color names but uses a limited color table which corresponds to the ansi standard colors, IE black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, and lightBlack, lightRed, etc. You can also use a number from 0-255 to get the ansi 256 color equivalent.

Multi-view forever!

Now you can open ALL THE PROFILES! and move between them with your mouse and keyboard shortcuts without it turning multiview off. Have fun multiplaying!

Telnet CHARSET support

Game admins will be happy about this feature – it is now possible to automatically set Mudlet’s text encoding – for example, to be utf8 in case your game supports emojis – using the CHARSET protocol. Big thanks to Tamarindo from StickMUD for pulling that one in.

Music/sound in MXP

Tamarindo also went ahead and added sound/music support to Mudlet’s MXP implementation. That said, there’s a much more modern Mud Client Media Protocol that you should aim to use

Scrollbar improvements

You’ll not be surprised to hear this one is Edru as well. Had you noticed Mudlet’s scrollbars behaving a bit… oddly? Jumping around, not resizing itself, stuff like that? Well, Edru’s put a lot of work into this and it should all work much more smoothly now.

macOS 10.13 High Sierra

Apple will stop supporting 10.13 High Sierra in November 2020, and Mudlet will have to follow suit. Thus Mudlet 4.10 will be the last version to support 10.13, which had a good run of 3 years!

Credits

Thanks to all coders that have contributed to this massive release: Andre Castellanos, Damian Monogue, Eraene, Fae, Gustavo Sousa, Ian Adkins, Jonathan Mohrbacher, Kebap, keneanung, Manuel Wegmann, Matthias Urlichs, Mike Conley, Stack, Stephen Lyons, and Vadim Peretokin.

Thanks to all translators to translated Mudlet into their language: Alan Sneath (alsneath), Anubisa, emeraldboy, Hsin Hsiang Peng (Hsins), Kae (itsTheFae), Leris, Marco “M0lid3us” Tironi (wiploo), rodeos, rodeos, Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin), vingi, and 王AQ (Anselmus).

This massive piece of work would not be possible without all of you

Changelog

added:

ability to display room names on the map (no auto-align them yet)
an event to catch all events – `*`
background image for miniconsoles is now possible, same as labels
background image for the main window is now possible
English spellchecking dictionaries are now included
game admins can now set encoding via telnet CHARSET (so utf8 for emojis)
miniconsoles can now have commandlines in them
music is now supported in MXP
option not to highlight text (history) when pressing the ↑ button
option to use your own pathfinding algorithm instead of the built-in one
you can now create standalone commandlines now allow you to ask the player for info
transparency in now supported by cecho/decho/hecho
you can now use math in Geyser constraints, ie “50% + 3px”

added & improved functions:

ansi2string() given a string with ANSI codes in it, remove them all
cfeedTriggers(), dfeedTriggers(), and hfeedTriggers() to enable testing color triggers
createCommandLine(), enableCommandLine() for creating custom commandlines
enableHorizontalScrollBar() to show a horizontal scrollbar in miniconsoles as needed
getClipboardText() and setClipboardText() for interacting with the clipboard
getFgColor() and getBgColor() now report how many characters the same color applies to
getHTTP() downloadFile’s cousin and allows you to pass custom headers, joins putHTTP(), postHTTP() family for consistency
Geyser.Label:createRightClickMenu() to create menus in labels
Geyser.MiniConsole:display() to display straight into a miniconsole
Geyser.UserWindow:setStyleSheet(), setUserWindowStyleSheet() to adjust the userwindow title and borders – great for dark themes
hecho() can now set the background color only, without affecting foreground
isActive() and exists() now work with buttons
keepcolor parameter to replaceWildcard() and replaceAll() functions
purgeMediaCache() to remove MCMP & MSP media files
setCmdLineStyleSheet() to customize the font, colors, position of the command line
setMapBackgroundColor() to change background color of the map from the usual black
setMapRoomExitsColor() to customize the color of room exits drawn on the map
spairs() which iterates over a table in a sorted way
tempAlias() and tempKey() now can take Lua functions and not just text
tempAnsiColor() trigger now works as it should

improved:

‘errors’ button text is now capitalized
a message is now shown when a replay ends
Client.Media – package messages themselves are no longer case sensitive
compact input line option is now per-profile
errors console now shows a horizontal scrollbar when needed
exit line in generic mapper is now case-insensitive, and a few other triggers improved
in case of compiling Mudlet yourself without TTS support, TTS functions won’t error anymore
links at the end of the line now won’t be clickable in the empty space
more accurate row and column reporting through NAWS protocol
Mudlet logo artwork, now sharper and better-looking. Dev and PTB builds are now clearly distinguishable
Mudlet’s savefiles are now saved with a more sorting-friendly name
Mudlet’s usual, development and PTB icons got improved
multiview tabbars aren’t re-arrangeable anymore, as doing so didn’t re-arrange the views anyhow
profile history in connection dialog now translates dates
scrolling now uses the upper pane’s height, so you aren’t missing text when scrolling, or getting too much of it
shrinking rooms in the mapper will keep everything in its place
string.split() now works with many more characters
stylesheets can now manipulate color of Geyser Labels
tabs and tab stops in profile preferences now make sense, which is a bit friendlier for a11y
upped the limit of regex capture groups in aliases and triggers to 33
zooming the mouse in and out in 2D mapper will keep the position more stable

fixed:

‘map config’ alias in generic mapper now works
appendBuffer() now keeps links, so copying text with links in it to miniconsoles works
crash when closing a profile with toolbars
crash when selecting/copying text
crash trying to move too many rooms at once via right-click
fixed MXP with values containing =
Materia Magica’s MXP now works better with Mudlet
multiview now stays when you change focus between profiles
resetProfile() to work again
static items in HBox/VBoxes won’t be resized anymore when the box changes size
sysDataSendEvent will no longer reveal the password
vertical scrollbar now moves when you scroll with PgUp/PgDown
vertical scrollbar now shrinks in size as you get more text

infrastructure:

added some useful defaults for Visual Studio Code’s C++ integration
building with libzip 1.70.0 that lacks version numbers now works
cleaned up IRC code
debug output now spams a bit less for unprintable codepoints
deleted Github Action for clearing whitespace (more spam than help)
enabled Github’s new CodeQL security code scanning
fixed crash importing map with custom exit lines on Qt 5.14+ (macOS)
internal code that only works with the main window is now in a separate class of its own, making the programmers happier
Lua binding code cleaned up and improved for consistency and code style, now more fresh!
Mudlet can now be built & run remotely in the browser with Github Codespaces
Mudlet can now be built in MSYS2 on Windows
Mudlet’s wiki is now upgraded to latest and greatest
new PTBs are only built on days where there are new changes
updated Linux builds to use Qt 5.12.9

Vadi2

Re: Absence Thread

Terentia said:

I am a little behind on things out of game, so I am a bit sparse this week. Hopefully getting everything in order soon!

So, the things that I tried to finish last week got finished; however, other things took their place (and the looming threat of an examination at the end of the month awaits me too). This isn't to say I am gone, but my presence is far more piecemeal than it has been!

Terentia