Video showing how to highlight your friends

Posted by Nick Gammon on Mon 24 May 2010 04:16 AM — 4 posts, 26,569 views.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Mon 24 May 2010 04:16 AM #0

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 Australia Forum Administrator Mon 24 May 2010 04:17 AM #1

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 Australia Forum Administrator Mon 24 May 2010 04:24 AM #2

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/

Tsunami USA Tue 25 May 2010 02:57 AM #3

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

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*Accent: Australian :)