Gammon Forum : MUSHclient : Getting Started : Video showing how to highlight your friends

Entire forum ➜ MUSHclient ➜ Getting Started ➜ Video showing how to highlight your friends

Video showing how to highlight your friends

It is now over 60 days since the last post. This thread is closed. Refresh page

Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (23,140 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date

Mon 24 May 2010 04:16 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 26 Nov 2013 03:43 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

Message

I have made a video illustrating keeping track of your friends, in particular if you have a "special" friend or two, who you want to know when they page you, even if a lot of stuff is scrolling by quickly on the screen.

This video illustrates:

Using the "Highlight" feature to quickly highlight their name
Editing the trigger created by the above, and changing the colour
Playing a sound when that word appears
Modifying the trigger to only play the sound once a minute rather than every time they say something, which can get quite annoying
Using the "recall" feature to recall a conversation with your friend.

The video is available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uiBj6wat9s

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

Top

Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (23,140 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date

Reply #1 on Mon 24 May 2010 04:17 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 26 Nov 2013 12:25 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

Message

The imbedded video is below (you can watch it on this page):

Or click How to highlight friends in MUSHclient to go to Vimeo to watch it there, and any related videos you might find of interest.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

Top

Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,140 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date

Reply #2 on Mon 24 May 2010 04:24 AM (UTC)

Amended on Mon 24 May 2010 04:27 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

Message

The trigger I used in the video is here:


<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="17"
   enabled="y"
   group="Highlighted Words"
   ignore_case="y"
   keep_evaluating="y"
   match="\bAciratha\b"
   regexp="y"
   repeat="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="90"
   other_text_colour="deepskyblue"
   other_back_colour="darkolivegreen"
  >
  <send>

if os.time () &gt; ((last_friend_notify or 0) + 60) then
  Sound (GetInfo (74) .. "Cartoon Timpani.wav")
end -- if

last_friend_notify = os.time ()

</send>
  </trigger>
</triggers>

For advice on how to copy the above, and paste it into MUSHclient, please see Pasting XML.

As I explain in the video, you would change the name "Aciratha" to be the name of your friend, and the sound file name "Cartoon Timpani.wav" to a suitable sound file that you choose to have played when your friend's name appears.

The sound file should have the properties:

"Wave" file (ie. ending in .wav)
Audio sample size: 16 bit
Channels: 2
Audio sample rate: 22 kHz
Audio format: PCM

You can use programs like Audacity (which is free) to convert sound files from one format to another.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

Top

Posted by

Tsunami USA (204 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #3 on Tue 25 May 2010 02:57 AM (UTC)

Message

Nick Gammon said:

The sound file should have the properties:

*"Wave" file (ie. ending in .wav)
*Audio sample size: 16 bit
*Channels: 2
*Audio sample rate: 22 kHz
*Audio format: PCM

+

*Accent: Australian :)

Top

The dates and times for posts above are shown in Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC).

To show them in your local time you can join the forum, and then set the 'time correction' field in your profile to the number of hours difference between your location and UTC time.

20,982 views.

It is now over 60 days since the last post. This thread is closed. Refresh page

Go to topic: Search the forum

top