help please - Scala to Lua?

Hi everyone. I am not a coder nor do I understand it at all.

That said, please work with me. I payed a player that used to(until real life issues arose) actively play. He happened to be a close friend of mine and I was saddened to hear that he no longer would be around.

He mostly finished a Scala Lang program to log the wilderness(VMap) of materiamagica so that I could find crystals rapidly by referencing the "treasure map" to the data bank.

The program ran fine with his tintin++. When he was in the process of making an adapter or communicator program for the Scala Lang files to mushclient his real life called him away.

I would be willing to share these files(as I payed dearly for them in game) with a trustable third party.

They break no rules. It simply logs the wilderness maps and searches them.

Could someone please help me with this? I have no idea what it is going to require though, he said it would not be too difficult.

I wish I could explain more. From memory, he said that mushclient needed a way to send and retrieve data from the Scala program. I downloaded the Scala Lang as he directed. Though, again being I am not savvy to all this I am unsure how to make it all work properly.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Also, hopefully this is in the proper sub forum. If not, could a moderator move it appropriately?

Thank you!

I don't know anything about Scala so I can't comment on how hard that would be.

Are you aware there is a mapper for Materia Magica, that runs on MUSHclient?

http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=10667

This isn't as complex as what your system sounds but it might be a start. Otherwise maybe someone will contact you and offer more help.

Nick, the ASCII art is the vmap or visual map. The link with the mapper you gave is a "zone mapper".

I want to compile a map of the art. I already use the zone mapper.

The "wilderness" or "vmap" is used when travelling. The compiled data bank when searched will spit out coordinants to find a crystal. Taking it to the specific NPC will result in rewards. The program does work.

The issue is sending the data to the program and extracting results. Solely communication between the two programs.

I very much appreciate your response.

Bump.

Any ideas? Some way for mushclient to send and retrieve information to a Scala based program.

Please and thank you for any help!

I've been programming for 40 years and hadn't heard of Scala until now. Not that that proves a great deal, there are lots of languages these days I haven't heard of.

However it seems that I may not be the only one.

MUSHclient can use the COM interface (Component Object Model) to "talk" to other code, maybe that will work, maybe not.

It might be quicker (it often can be) to simply rewrite what the code did in Lua. Of course then you have to rediscover where things are (if that is a big issue).

Things are quiet on this web site right now, maybe try asking for help on one of those web sites that "match makes" programmers with people who are prepared to pay.

Scala seems to have a Community, try asking on their forum or whatever they have to see if someone there, who already knows Scala, will help you:

http://www.scala-lang.org/community/