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| Posted by
| Khripunoff
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| Thu 07 May 2020 03:36 PM (UTC) Amended on Thu 07 May 2020 06:08 PM (UTC) by Khripunoff
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| I play Discworld MUD and I decided to make a plugin that will enhance the item lists in shops.
This is an example snippet of a shop list:
The following items are for sale:
A: a large watermelon for DjToon 25.00 (five left).
B: a medium watermelon for DjToon 17.50 (four left).
C: a small watermelon for DjToon 10.00 (seven left).
D: an overripe plum for DjToon 1.87 (four left).
E: a succulent pineapple for DjToon 6.00 (six left).
F: a juicy peach for DjToon 5.00 (five left).
G: an orange for DjToon 3.00 (seven left).
H: a juicy nectarine for DjToon 5.00 (three left).
I: a musk melon for DjToon 18.00 (five left).
J: a small lemon for DjToon 2.50 (four left).
I made a regex that captures the item name, the currency and the price (the last two may be used later for other purpose) like this:
^ [A-Z]{1,2}: ?a?n? (?<Item>.*) for (?<Currency>\w+) (?<Price>[\d.]+) \(\w+ left\)\.$
My idea is to make every item entry a clickable link that can be right-clicked for a pop-up menu with command options such as |buy <Item>|browse <Item>|case <Item>|shoplift <Item>| etc.
I have some basic scripting knowledge but I would like some advise on what would be the best approach for realizing this? mxp? hyperlink? Is there a function dedicated to creating such thing?
Help and advice will be highly appreciated.
[EDIT] The currency and the price are captured in this case, but there are some currencies in the MUD with different formatting. I will have to come up with a better idea for capturing them properly, but for now this is far less important. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
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| Reply #1 on Fri 08 May 2020 05:28 PM (UTC) Amended on Fri 08 May 2020 05:39 PM (UTC) by Fiendish
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the best approach
There are no best approaches, only ones that work and ones that don't.
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right-clicked for a pop-up menu
I don't know much about MXP, but the only function I know of in MUSHclient for that is WindowMenu. It requires creating a temporary miniwindow first, though I'm not sure why that is. But anyway you can make a hyperlink that calls a function that creates a miniwindow and then calls WindowMenu in that miniwindow. You can use the same miniwindow over and over, so you only have to create one once. |
https://github.com/fiendish/aardwolfclientpackage | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #2 on Sun 10 May 2020 06:56 AM (UTC) Amended on Sun 10 May 2020 06:57 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Using MXP (from the server) you can make hyperlinks that have a menu. See Creating a popup menu in this link.
You could conceivably pretend MXP arrived by using the Simulate function — although it was not designed for that — and make a menu that way.
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- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #3 on Sun 10 May 2020 07:00 AM (UTC) Amended on Sun 10 May 2020 07:02 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Another approach would be to make a hyperlink and inside that call a function (see that link). That function could pop up a miniwindow — I think you can find out where the mouse currently is* — and make a menu of things you want to do in that.
* See GetInfo selectors 283 and 284.
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- Nick Gammon
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