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Posted by Eloge   (20 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sun 24 Oct 2010 08:18 AM (UTC)
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I have been thinking about creating a window that keeps an up-to-date track on stuff, namely potions,
which I, btw. call internally my 'life insurence'. Yes, they are so important in my play. I want to know - all the
time - how many I am left with at that moment.

Probably a mini-window would be the solution? Then, howto get the appropriate text into that mini-window. I get
from the mud 'You have bought a potion of...' and 'You quaff a potion'. I can also give the command 'look in bag' (where I store my potions. I can have up to 100 potions.

I have created a mini-window and have it placed where i want it to go on my screen. But now???

So, what should I do next. Thanks for any advice?

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Posted by LezChap   (36 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #1 on Sun 24 Oct 2010 05:07 PM (UTC)
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Have a trigger that detects the number of potions in your bag, and sets that to a potion_count variable:

look in bag
You look in your bag.
You see:
a lantern
some potions[55]
lots of coins [35943]
a pair of dirty socks

Trigger on "some potions\[(\d)+\]" or something like that, regex, and set %1 to the variable.

Trigger on "you quaff a potion" to remove one from potion_count.

Trigger on "you buy..." to add one to potion_count.

I'd do it all in a plug-in. Then it's a matter of every time you change the potion_count variable, redrawing the number in the miniwindow.
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Posted by Eloge   (20 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Sun 24 Oct 2010 06:53 PM (UTC)
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LezChap finished the answer to my question where my question starts:

Quote:
Then it's a matter of every time you change the potion_count variable, redrawing the number in the miniwindow.


Yes, of course. Perhaps I am asking too elementary questions. This is however quite clear.

What I am asking, is howto draw the number of potions
(with some text) in the miniwindow.

My question begins where the answer finished. How do you put the contents of a variable (and text) in a mini-window, not how to calculate what to put into the window?
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Posted by Twisol   USA  (2,257 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #3 on Sun 24 Oct 2010 06:58 PM (UTC)
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Eloge said:
My question begins where the answer finished. How do you put the contents of a variable (and text) in a mini-window, not how to calculate what to put into the window?

The variable must first be a string or a number (some languages, like Lua, will coerce a number into a string when it's needed as a string). Then you can use WindowText() to draw the text to some point on the screen.
'Soludra' on Achaea

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GitHub: http://github.com/Twisol
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (22,975 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #4 on Sun 24 Oct 2010 08:03 PM (UTC)
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This video (and small script underneath) show drawing text into a miniwindow:

http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=9626
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Eloge   (20 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #5 on Tue 26 Oct 2010 12:38 AM (UTC)
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Thanks!

Now I am on my way, not stuck any more, as I was.

Though I will need a lot of experimenting with the command line (from the video):

WindowText (win, font, "%0", 5, 5, 0, 0, ColourNameToRGB ("yellow"))

Especially the "%0" seems cryptical. How can it be replaced?

Thanks!

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Posted by Twisol   USA  (2,257 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #6 on Tue 26 Oct 2010 12:45 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 26 Oct 2010 12:47 AM (UTC) by Twisol

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%0 is a wildcard from a trigger or alias line. In fact, %0 means "all of the matched text", whether there were any wildcards in the pattern or not. If you want to test it outside a trigger or alias, just use whatever text you want to display, instead of %0.
'Soludra' on Achaea

Blog: http://jonathan.com/
GitHub: http://github.com/Twisol
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