Replacing a trigger line

Posted by Shadoweave on Tue 12 Feb 2008 05:42 PM — 5 posts, 23,456 views.

Shadoweave Tue 12 Feb 2008 05:42 PM #0

I have been trying to make a trigger so that it colours the name of my current target in red, and the rest in white. The trigger:


<trigger
   enabled="y"
   group="test"
   match="^(.*)?([A-Z][a-z]+)(.*)?\.$" 
   omit_from_output="y"
   regexp="y"
   script="gagging"
   send_to="14"
   sequence="100"
  >
  </trigger>

Basically, the name of my target can either be the first wildcard from the pattern, or the second. What I am having troubles with is leaving the line as it is if the name of my target isn't in that sentence. Here is the gagging script:


function gagging (sName, sLine, wildcards, tStyle)
if (wildcards [1] == GetVariable ("target")) then
	ColourTell ("red", "", wildcards [1])
	ColourNote ("white", "", wildcards [2]..".")
elseif (wildcards [2] == GetVariable ("target")) then
	ColourTell ("white", "", wildcards [1])
	ColourTell ("red", "", wildcards [2])
	if (wildcards [3]) then
		ColourTell ("white", "", wildcards [3])
	end --if
	ColourNote ("white", "", ".")
else
	for key, value in pairs (tStyle) do
    	if (key ~= #tStyle) then
    		ColourTell (value [textcolour], value [backcolour], value [text])
    	else
    		ColourNote (value.textcolour, value.backcolour, value.text)
    	end --if
    end --for
end --if
end --function

The problems I encounter are here:


ColourTell (value [textcolour], value [backcolour], value [text])

I don't know how to transform the number from the textcolour field into a viable colour name for the ColourTell function. How do I do that? If anyone has a better idea about how to do this, I am more than willing to listen to any suggestions.

Ian Kirker Tue 12 Feb 2008 07:02 PM #1

Do you actually want the rest in white, or do you want it to be left alone? Because matching specific names and just colouring those is better (faster, so much faster) than matching every line as you're doing at the moment and recolouring it as it was supposed to be.

Anyway, if you're just trying to match one thing that's contained in a Variable, you can expand a variable in the match field as this person is doing:
http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=8479&page=999

I think you can, anyway.

Shadoweave Tue 12 Feb 2008 08:08 PM #2

Quote:

Do you actually want the rest in white, or do you want it to be left alone? Because matching specific names and just colouring those is better (faster, so much faster) than matching every line as you're doing at the moment and recolouring it as it was supposed to be.

Anyway, if you're just trying to match one thing that's contained in a Variable, you can expand a variable in the match field as this person is doing:
http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=8479&page=999

I think you can, anyway.

No, I want the name of my current enemy in red, and the rest of the line, no matter if it comes before or after it, in white. The combat spam can overwhelm you in group fights, and I want to be able to see what my enemy is doing.

Ian Kirker Tue 12 Feb 2008 08:55 PM #3

Right, well, nevertheless, the above still holds - if you replace your match attribute with


^(.*)?@target(.*)?\.$

It should expand to match only your target, and not every line containing any sequence of alphanumeric characters, meaning you shouldn't have to handle lines that don't contain the name.

Shadoweave Tue 12 Feb 2008 09:37 PM #4

It works now, thank you very much!