openUrl() nonfunctional?

[Akaxi]

Hi,

I tried a simple alias using one of the examples from the manual:

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openUrl("http://google.com")

The following message from the "errors" console was output:

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[ERROR:] object:<test> function:<Alias7>
<[string "function Alias7()..."]:3: attempt to call global 'openUrl' (a nil value)>

I'm guessing the function was deleted from the latest release and the manual wasn't updated to reflect that. OR! I could be missing something stupid.

If the function is indeed removed/bugged, is there some other way to open a browser or otherwise do web-interactive tasks from w/in mudlet?

Thanks!

[Yetzederixx]

Not sure what you are going for here, but this is how I got clickable URL's:

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Trigger: Clickable URL's
Pattern: \b(((https?|ftp|telnet)://[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+\-=&]+|www|ftp)(\.[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+\-=&]+)+)\b
Pattern: \b([\w\d._%+\-]+@[\w\d.\-]+\.[\w]{2,4})\b

Code:
     selectString(matches[2],1)
     replace("")
     echoLink(matches[2], "", matches[2])

Hope that helps

[Akaxi]

Hmm, thanks! My MUD has a little reminder that pops up occasionally, requesting that you vote for them on topmudsites.com. My plan was to partially (not totally! that is against the rules!) automate doing that by triggering off of that phrase such that the web browser automatically pops up, so I can just click on the "vote" button and be done.

Not a big deal; it'd just save me a few keystrokes, and I could use echoLink() similar to what you suggest to give me a url to click on when the message pops up.

[Vadi]

Latest Mudlet uses openURL, which is implemented differently and works better

[Akaxi]

Thanks as always for the quick reply. Is there any documentation for openURL()?

[Vadi]

It's the same usage

[Akaxi]

Hrm, when I did the same example from above but with openURL() instead of openUrl(), I got a blank command prompt to open up (running WinXP).

[Yetzederixx]

I tried making clickable links and can't get it to work either.

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selectString(matches[2],1)
replace(" ")

echoLink(matches[2], [[ echoUrl(matches[2]) ]], matches[2])

This is what I get when I click the link in the MUD:

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Lua error:[string " echoUrl(url) "]:1: attempt to call global 'echoUrl' (a nil value)

I've tried echoUrl and echoURL.

Win XP, 1.2.0 pre6

[Denarii]

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echoLink(matches[2], [[openURL(]]..matches[2]..[[)]], matches[2])

[Yetzederixx]

Thanks Denarii, you were almost right:

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-- need the double quotes to make it work
echoLink(matches[2], [[openURL("]]..matches[2]..[[")]], matches[2])