Chat redirection plugin assistance?

Posted by Frosty on Wed 26 Nov 2008 08:45 AM — 26 posts, 104,088 views.

Frosty Wed 26 Nov 2008 08:45 AM #0

Hello everyone.

I'm a long-time shareware user of Mushclient.. and I've gotten years of nice service from it. So first, I want to kiss-up and thank Nick for the awesome client, and the others for some spectacular plugins!

Now that I've sufficiently browned up my carrot nose.. I have a question about the tell window plugin. I play on Lost Wishes and I can't seem to get this to work. I've tried it dozens of times and I still can't seem to even get the plugin to work.

I've installed and enabled the plugin on my main "LW.mcl", and I created LW2 for the chat redirection window. I've resized all of my windows and gotten everything ready...but no dice. It doesn't seem to work at all. I'm using version 4.37... but I don't think that could be the issue... right?

Is there something I'm missing below?

Thanks guys!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE muclient>







<muclient>
<plugin
name="Chat_Redirector"
author="Nick Gammon"
id="cb84a526b476f69f403517da"
language="Lua"
purpose="Redirects chat messages to another world"
date_written="2007-06-30 10:45:35"
requires="4.08"
version="2.0"
>
<description trim="y">
<![CDATA[
Redirects chats to the specified world.

Add or modify "chat" triggers to capture different sorts of message.

Change the variable "chat_world" to be the name of the world chats are to go to.
]]>
</description>

</plugin>



<triggers>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^($.+$: )?[A-Za-z]+ (says|yells|tells you), ".+"
regexp="y"
script="chat_redirect"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^You (tell|whisper) .+, ".+"
regexp="y"
script="chat_redirect"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="n"
match="*"
script="chat_redirect"
name="multi_line_chat"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="10"
>
</trigger>

</triggers>



<script>
<![CDATA[
chat_world = "LW2"
who_world = "Who List"

require "getworld" -- handles finding the world, and sending the line

-- chat redirector
function chat_redirect (name, line, wildcards, styles)

send_to_world (chat_world, styles)

-- if ends with quote, end of multi-line chat
if line:sub (-1) == '"' then
EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", false) -- no more lines to go
else
EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", true) -- capture subsequent lines
end -- if

end -- function chat_redirect

]]>
</script>
</muclient>

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Thu 27 Nov 2008 05:40 AM #1

When you say it doesn't work, do you get an error message, or does nothing seem to happen?

If nothing seems to happen, can you post example output? The triggers need to match exactly for something to happen.

Frosty Thu 27 Nov 2008 08:02 AM #2

Nothing at all is happening. The Chat window just stays blank.

The lines I was trying to redirect are like this:

You say: Cool
Frosty says: Cool
Frosty tells you: test
You tell Frosty: test
You shout: Happy Birthday!
Frosty shouts: Happy Birthday!
[chat] Frosty: woo
{Wayfarer} Frosty exclaims in mock pain.

I apologize in advance for being quite the dimwit when it comes to anything regarding actual code. I barely made it through BASIC about 15 years ago..heh.

I hope this helps? I tried to edit it several different ways and still nothing seems to be transferring over or anything. It's almost as if it's not even installed or enabled. (which it is..I've made sure of that numerous times.)

Thanks in advance for any assistance.. and kudos on the great work with the client!

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Thu 27 Nov 2008 08:23 PM #3

Your problem is the trigger match. In the case of the plugin it is:


match="^(\(.+\): )?[A-Za-z]+ (says|yells|tells you), &quot;.+"

Now that is going to match something like:


(General): Nick says, "hi there"

or

Nick says, "hi there"

Note the comma after "says", and the chat stuff is quoted.

You have said you get:


Frosty tells you: test

So you don't have the comma, you don't have the quotes, but you do have a colon.

You need to rework the trigger a bit until it matches, for example:


match="^(\[.+\] )?[A-Za-z]+ (says|yells|tells you): .+"

Frosty Sat 29 Nov 2008 01:55 AM #4

Thanks for the help. I've re-worked it a few times.. and now text will redirect to the chat window.. however.. now it appears that everything goes over to the new window. I've spend a few hours off and on trying to fix it.. but I'm not sure what else I could be missing.

I've taken a screenshot here and thought maybe I'd see if you could see if there's something else I could do with the original plugin code that I had pasted earlier.

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/2382/mushclientie1.png

Thanks

Worstje Netherlands Sat 29 Nov 2008 03:20 AM #5

Paste the triggers you are using. Nick's trigger should not be causing that for as far I am able to tell.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 29 Nov 2008 03:53 AM #6

This line is probably responsible:


omit_from_output="y"

That omits the matching line from the original window.

Frosty Sat 29 Nov 2008 04:22 AM #7

Thanks for the help guys. I just added an "n" to the omit frmo output and it's letting tells and says go to the other window.

I'm wondering one other thing: Where can I go to learn about scripting? I usually just luck my way into figuring out some scripting (usually checking out other scripts), but I'd rather just learn how to do them myself..heh.

Thanks again.

Frosty Sat 29 Nov 2008 04:28 AM #8

Well... I thought I had it all sorted out. After I reinstalled and enabled it..the script works until a tell/say/chat is redirected into the other window. then afterwards, all text goes over to the new window as well.

I'm not sure what I'm missing here...heh.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE muclient>







<muclient>
<plugin
name="Chat_Redirector"
author="Nick Gammon"
id="cb84a526b476f69f403517da"
language="Lua"
purpose="Redirects chat messages to another world"
date_written="2007-06-30 10:45:35"
requires="4.08"
version="2.0"
>
<description trim="y">
<![CDATA[
Redirects chats to the specified world.

Add or modify "chat" triggers to capture different sorts of message.

Change the variable "chat_world" to be the name of the world chats are to go to.
]]>
</description>

</plugin>



<triggers>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^(\[.+\] )?[A-Za-z]+ (says|shouts|tells you|chat|wayfarer): .+"
regexp="y"
script="chat_redirect"
omit_from_output="y"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^You (tell|whisper|shout|say|chat|wayfarer): .+"
regexp="y"
script="chat_redirect"
omit_from_output="n"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="n"
match="*"
script="chat_redirect"
name="multi_line_chat"
omit_from_output="n"
sequence="10"
>
</trigger>

</triggers>



<script>
<![CDATA[
chat_world = "Chat LW"
who_world = "Who List"

require "getworld" -- handles finding the world, and sending the line

-- chat redirector
function chat_redirect (name, line, wildcards, styles)

send_to_world (chat_world, styles)

-- if ends with quote, end of multi-line chat
if line:sub (-1) == '"' then
EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", false) -- no more lines to go
else
EnableTrigger ("multi_line_chat", true) -- capture subsequent lines
end -- if

end -- function chat_redirect

]]>
</script>
</muclient>

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 29 Nov 2008 08:06 PM #9

One of those triggers has omit from output as Y and the others as N.

You might want to change all of them.

Jman Thu 12 Mar 2009 08:55 PM #10

Hey guys, I'm also having a minor problem with the chat plugin.

I'm trying to redirect group tells which look like this:

Person (100%) tells the group: 'Hi.'

It doesn't seem to be working because of the (100%) bit, which I tried adding myself but couldn't figure it out.

The numbers also change as it is a representation of the person's HP percentage.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Thu 12 Mar 2009 09:16 PM #11

Can you paste your amended or new trigger?

http://mushclient.com/copying

Jman Sat 14 Mar 2009 04:01 AM #12

These are the triggers that I have, the first one being the problematic one.



<triggers>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^[A-Za-z]+ $[0-9]+\%$ tells \'(.*?)\'$"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^[A-Za-z]+ [A-Za-z]+ gossips \'(.*?)\'$"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^[A-Za-z]+ (says|tells|gossips|shouts|states) \'(.*?)\'$"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^You (say|gossip|tell|reply|shout) \'(.*?)\'$"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^You (tell|reply) [A-Za-z]+ [A-Za-z]+ \'(.*?)\'$"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

</triggers>

$[0-9]+\%$ is what I imagined would work, but doesn't seem to.

Thanks again.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 14 Mar 2009 04:50 AM #13

In your trigger you have "tells" but the example you pasted had "tells the group:". Thus it won't match.

Jman Sat 14 Mar 2009 05:06 AM #14

Haha, that did it!

Thanks!

Calicoxx Mon 18 May 2009 01:28 AM #15

Hello. I am also having a problem. I copied the plug in, and added in the messages for my realm, made sure everything checked up and matched, but there is nothing going from the main window to the redirect window. My plugin looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE muclient>







<muclient>
<plugin
name="Chat_Redirector"
author="Nick Gammon"
id="cb84a526b476f69f403517da"
language="Lua"
purpose="Redirects chat messages to another world"
date_written="2007-06-30 10:45:35"
requires="4.08"
version="1.0"
>
<description trim="y">
<![CDATA[
Redirects chats to the specified world.

Add or modify "chat" triggers to capture different sorts of message.

Change the variable "chat_world" to be the name of the world chats are to go to.
]]>
</description>

</plugin>



<triggers>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^[A-Za-z]+ (says|chats|yells|[OOC]s) \'(.*?)\'$"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

<trigger
enabled="y"
match="^You (say|chat|yell|[OOC]) \'(.*?)\'$"
regexp="y"
script="redirect"
sequence="100"
>
</trigger>

</triggers>



<script>
<![CDATA[
chat_world = "DBE Chats"
local first_time = true

function redirect (name, line, wildcards, styles)

-- try to find "chat" world
local w = GetWorld (chat_world) -- get "chat" world

-- if not found, try to open it
if first_time and not w then
local filename = GetInfo (67) .. chat_world .. ".mcl"
Open (filename)
w = GetWorld (chat_world) -- try again
if not w then
ColourNote ("white", "red", "Can't open chat world file: " .. filename)
first_time = false -- don't repeatedly show failure message
end -- can't find world
end -- can't find world first time around

if w then -- if present
for _, v in ipairs (styles) do
w:ColourTell (RGBColourToName (v.textcolour),
RGBColourToName (v.backcolour),
v.text)
end -- for each style run
w:Note ("") -- wrap up line

end -- world found

end -- function redirect

]]>
</script>

</muclient>

Any help would be much appreciated. =)

Worstje Netherlands Mon 18 May 2009 08:37 AM #16

Adjust [OOC] to \[OOC\] in your triggers. [] signifies a character class in regular expressions, and you are basically saying O, O, or C. Which it apparently does not consider an error but in either case, it does not do what you expect it to. :)

Edit: Although the yells and other varieties should still work. Can I assume you only tested with the OOC channel? :)

Calicoxx Mon 18 May 2009 02:00 PM #17

Hmm, well I did that, and I checked other channels as well, but to no avail. It still did not work for the OOC or says, yells, ect.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Mon 18 May 2009 11:09 PM #18

To help you, you need to show us some sample lines that you are trying to match. Triggers are pretty specific, maybe there is a comma there you didn't allow for.

Calicoxx Mon 18 May 2009 11:51 PM #19

Some samples are (I am aware of the tells being transmission instead):

Player [OOC]s, 'ty Volaj... on my way back to recall, lol.'
You [OOC], 'Hello.'
Player says, 'whats goin onnnn uub'
You say, 'Yo'
You send a scouter transmission to Player, 'Heya'
Player sends a scouter transmission to you, 'okay :P'
You (Holler), 'Someone else holler!'
Player (Holler)s, 'why?'
You (Shout), 'Shout like you mean it'
Player (Shout)s, 'shout shout'
You sing, 'Someone sing!'
Player sings, 'why?'
Player (1): homo
You (Roleplay), '-=Test=-'
Player (Roleplay)s, '*kills the human*'
You (Quote), '2 more!'
Player (Quote)s, 'woot helping'
You (Congrat), '1 more!'
Player (Congrat)s, 'yo'
You RP/Quest say, 'That's all!'
Player RP/Quest says, 'you need this one too? >.>'
You tell the group, 'Yo'
Player tells the group, 'sup'

The Number in "Player (1): homo" also changes depending on what frequency it is on.

I believe that is all.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Tue 19 May 2009 01:06 AM #20

That was a good guess by me about the comma. ;)

Your match string was:


match="^[A-Za-z]+ (says|chats|yells|[OOC]s) \'(.*?)\'$"

Even allowing for escaping the brackets, like this:


match="^[A-Za-z]+ (says|chats|yells|\[OOC\]s) \'(.*?)\'$"

That would match, say:


Someone says 'something'

but you have:


Someone says, 'something'

Note the comma after "says".

So at least you need to try:


match="^[A-Za-z]+ (says|chats|yells|\[OOC\]s), \'(.*?)\'$"

Calicoxx Tue 19 May 2009 02:45 AM #21

Thanks Nick! That did the trick! =)

ShanG Mon 14 Sep 2009 12:57 AM #22

I'm using the Chat Redirector/Input Redirector functions with several different worlds, and multiple chat windows.

What I want to know is, how can I set up the Input Redirect to take commands in the chat window, and send those commands to one window or another depending on the command entered.

Would it be possible to set up aliases in the chat window to that effect?

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Mon 14 Sep 2009 10:08 AM #23

Yes, I don't see a problem with that. Where it does:


GetWorld (chat_world)

.. substitute the world name you want instead of a fixed chat_world variable.

ShanG Tue 15 Sep 2009 08:56 PM #24

Allright, so I'm not really all that comfortable with the scripting, I haven't done a lot with it beyond making simple tweaks and edits to a few plugins.

Maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I figure it's probably something extremely basic like 'completely messing up how the script should be written'.


<aliases>
  <alias
   match="^\+(P|Pub|Public) (.*?)$"
   enabled="y"
   regexp="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>world_name = "World1"

  local w = GetWorld (world_name)  -- find world

  -- not found? show error
  if not w then
    ColourNote ("white", "red", "World " .. world_name .. " is not open")
  else
    w:Execute (%0)  -- execute command (handle aliases, etc.)
    PushCommand (%0)  -- save in command history
  end -- if

  return ("\t")  -- clear command</send>
  </alias>
</aliases>

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Tue 15 Sep 2009 10:31 PM #25

Please read the MUSHclient FAQ - point 32.

In particular, you need to quote the %0