Help highlighting target and enemies?

Kio

One day, I will run out of questions about Mudlet.

1. How can I highlight my target variable?  No matter what I try, I can't seem to get it work.

2. How can I highlight those people on my enemies list?  I just recently learned how to sort of use tables, and I'm assuming you'd use a table for this.  I just can't figure out how

Thanks!

Ushaara

Following should work and is flexible, though there may be speedier way of doing it. Your enemies_table would be of form  { "Ushaara", "Rivius", etc. }

trigger pattern: return not isPrompt() <- lua function type

-- highlighting enemies
enemies_table = enemies_table or {}
for _,name in pairs(enemies_table) do
    if line:find(name) then selectString(name, 1) fg("red") resetFormat() end
end
-- similar for basic target
target = target or "weevil"
if line:find(target) then selectString(target, 1) fg("yellow") resetFormat() end

You will need to watch for case-sensitive things, so string.lower(word) and string.title(word) functions come in handy there.

Lerad

It'll trigger on anything that isn't a prompt. Basically, if it's a prompt, then it won't bother searching for matches with your enemy table. For all others, it will.

Ciaran

change the code to this:

    if line:find(name) and target ~= name then selectString(name, 1) fg("red") resetFormat() end

Elanorwen

The only way I've discovered is using temporary triggers that will color stuff. So every time I switch target/influence target, it deletes the old temp trigger (if it exists) and creates a new one.

Kio

Ushaara said:

Following should work and is flexible, though there may be speedier way of doing it. Your enemies_table would be of form  { "Ushaara", "Rivius", etc. }

trigger pattern: return not isPrompt() <- lua function type

-- highlighting enemies
enemies_table = enemies_table or {}
for _,name in pairs(enemies_table) do
    if line:find(name) then selectString(name, 1) fg("red") resetFormat() end
end
-- similar for basic target
target = target or "weevil"
if line:find(target) then selectString(target, 1) fg("yellow") resetFormat() end

You will need to watch for case-sensitive things, so string.lower(word) and string.title(word) functions come in handy there.

I'm afraid I don't understand the trigger pattern.

Kio

Huzzah!  Learning!  Thank you!

BAHAHA!  Everything is working perfectly.  SO MUCH LEARNING.

Kio

When my target is also an enemy, the enemy color is used. How can I change this?

Kio

How can I save the entries of a table so that they're not cleared when I exit Mudlet?

Ushaara

Try adding remember("enemies_table") to a logout alias/trigger.

Kio

So, I have two tables: one for permanent enemies and one for permanent allies.  I'm trying to highlight my enemies yellow and my allies purple.  I have two triggers for this, both are triggered off:

return not isPrompt()

The ally trigger is:

allies_table = allies_table or {}

for _,name in pairs(allies_table) do

if line:find(name) and target ~= name then selectString(name, 1) fg("purple") resetFormat() end

end

The enemy trigger is:

enemies_table = enemies_table or {}

for _,name in pairs(enemies_table) do

if line:find(name) and target ~= name then selectString(name, 1) fg("yellow") resetFormat() end

end

The problem is that, for some reason, either all the names are yellow or all the names are purple.  Also, once I clear either list, the other list is suddenly highlighted that color (if I empty the purple enemies table, suddenly my yellow allies turn purple).

I'm so bad at this.

Ciaran

It sounds like you're adding people to both lists somehow, because the code you shared seems to be fine.

Make sure whatever you're doing to add people to enemies_table isn't also adding them to allies_table?