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So, I'm throwing together a simple Chat Window but having difficulties with positioning it and keeping it at a certain size..

What I have is, The position/size I'm trying to get it at is -

-- x = "-320", y = "13",
-- width = "300",
-- height = "280",

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so my question is, for consoles it is something like createConsole("NAMEOFCONSOLE", "FONTSIZE", "??", "numberoflinestall", "positionX" "Y") ?

createMiniConsole(name,x,y,width,height)

It is generally best to create the console, and then move and resize it, like this:
createMiniConsole(name,0,0,0,0)
resizeWindow(name,width,height)
moveWindow(name,x,y)

Thanks,

Happen to know the best way to capture lines such as
(channel): name says, "this and that"

?

^\((channel)\): (\w+) says, "(.*)"$

If you have non-letter characters allowed in names, you obviously need to be a bit more careful with how you capture their names, but other than that... something like the above should work pretty well.

oh I meant would it be something like

echo("chatname", matches[2])

or stringLine(line, 1) Never tried to make a chat window before and unsure how to 'catch' that line. :/

I been trying to look for just a simple chat window which grabs all the channels into 1 screen and not this tabbed chat (Granted tab chat will be better BUT I only got a small screen so the tables will break the design of it)

Oh, well, once you have a pattern that captures the whole line, just do this:

Thanks

For channel capturing, can just do (Channel Name): as a begin of line substring pattern type.

Or if your MUD supports it (all the IRE games do), just enable GMCP.Comm and completely do away with even needing a trigger!

fetaera wrote:Or if your MUD supports it (all the IRE games do), just enable GMCP.Comm and completely do away with even needing a trigger!

Aye too lazy to mess with that code and try to figure that out