Highlighting targets?

Erebos

I'm fairly inexperienced in Mudlet coding, beyond very simply basics.

How would I set the system to highlight my target in red, so that I can easily track it?

My variable is 'target', and I'm just trying to make it highlight it in every output, for ease of it all.

Also, is there a very simple curing system (that is free) and up to date (mostly) that I could use for bashing in areas like Shallach Ruins and the like?

Daganev

It has been a while, but I believe there is a trigger type called "highlight" which will highlight the matched words in the trigger.  Should be a drop down menu option.

Erebos

Interesting, that worked, but how do I make it highlight 'target' variable?  Right now, it only highlights the word 'target'

Tarkenton

according to the mudlet wiki, put the following in your target alias, http://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Scripting#How_to_highlight_my_current_target.3F is the page in question.

target = target:title()
if id then killTrigger(id) end
id = tempTrigger(target, [[selectString("]] .. target .. [[", 1) fg("gold") deselect() resetFormat()]])

Edit: Assuming you're targeting players.  If you're targeting denizens by something like fink, snake, etc, then you'd want to get rid of the first line.  Ideally, run a target alias for pvp, one for pve, that way you can highlight both.

Erebos

Man, thanks!  Life saver!

Shaddus

I've probably seen four different ways of doing this, and this is by far the easiest way of doing it. Thank you!

Tarkenton

I take zero credit for this, other than putting "highlight target in mudlet" into Google

Lysistrata

when I do this, my highlighted target seems to stay highlighted, even after I change targets. suggestions?

Deichtine

Not sure if the old code isnt working for some reason but I tried making one based on what that thingy said and this works:

https://pastebin.com/i9uSFcmN

or

target = string.lower(matches[2])

cecho("\n<red>MY TARGET IS: <white>"..string.title(target))

if (colourtarget) then killTrigger(colourtarget) end

colourtarget = tempTrigger(target, [[selectString("]] .. target .. [[", 1) fg("gold") deselect() resetFormat()]])

Deichtine

Hmm this works but  mm name database seems to over write it.

Valysha

Highlights your target red and capitalizes the name for you. The color does go away once you target someone else or target nothing at all. Also, it overrides NDB.  Hope it helps!



ALIAS IS AS FOLLOWS:

pattern is: ^t (.*)

 Big White Box:
                             

setTarget(matches[2]:title())

SCRIPT IS AS FOLLOWS:

function setTarget(tar)

   target = tar

   if id then killTrigger(id) end

   id = tempRegexTrigger("\\b(?i)" .. target .. "\\b", [[colorAllInLine(matches[1], "red")]])

   cecho("<white>=<gold>)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_)_<white>@&lt;red> " .. target:title())

    

   send(" ")

end

--coloring script for targetting

function colorAllInLine(word, color)

   local i = 0

   for _ in string.gmatch(line, word) do

      i = i + 1

      selectString(word, i)

      fg(color)

   end

end

Valysha

Feel free to edit the colors and wand I drew. hehe

Ciaran

I recommend making a little table for this script, just for tidiness.  (Global variables proc my OCD)

So I'd add above the function:

valScript = valScript or {}

and replace all instances of tar or id with valScript.tar and valScript.id!

Nice work

Valysha

Ciaran said:

I recommend making a little table for this script, just for tidiness.  (Global variables proc my OCD)

So I'd add above the function:

valScript = valScript or {}

and replace all instances of tar or id with valScript.tar and valScript.id!

Nice work

Ooohh! Getting fancy on me! Thanks for that.

Ciaran

You can also put the functions within that table if you like. (Just make sure to define your table before trying to define the function!)

So it'd look like this:

valScript = valScript or {}

function valScript.setTarget(tar)

......blah......
end

The more you know!