Odd Echoing Issues

[Skylark]

I am using the excellent tabbed chat widget by Thylacine, and have stumbled across an oddity. I have added a few things to the specific triggers that fire when a channel is spoken on, specifically a short notification. When this happens, a prompt appears (as it should), but the notification does not. At least, not until I highlight it, at which point it appears, and remains everafter even if I cease to highlight it. Furthermore, if I have another window opened while the notification is sent (say this web browser) then the notification will appear correctly. Any idea what's causing this and how to fix it? The notification code is below.

selectString(line,1)
copy()
setBgColor(25,25,25)
appendBuffer("chatall")
appendBuffer("chatcity")
deleteLine()
resetFormat()

setBgColor(0,0,0)
setFgColor(255,255,255)
echo("[")
setFgColor(85,0,127)
echo("City")
setFgColor(255,255,255)
echo("]")
resetFormat()

[Heiko]

Version? OS?

The function deleteLine() should only be used when you want to gag the entire line.
If you want to replace the text of the line with something else use replace() e.g.

Code: Select all

selectString(line,1)
setBgColor(25,25,25)
copy()
appendBuffer("chatall")
appendBuffer("chatcity")
resetFormat()
setBgColor(0,0,0)
setFgColor(255,255,255)
replace("[City]")
resetFormat()

[Skylark]

I'm using Mudlet 1.0.5 on Vista.

I want to use deleteline() and echo() instead of substitution, because I don't want the tiny notification message wasting space on its own line.

Original:
Prompt
(City): (Message)
Prompt

Substitution:
Prompt
[city]
Prompt

With Delete and notification:
Prompt
Prompt [City}