enemy highlighter

[Heiko]

This script parses the output of a comma seperated enemy list and highlights all names on this list.

The alias "update enemies" sends the command to get the MUD to display the enemy list and then adds its content to the internal highlighter list.
Change the command to get the list to what you need.

Caveats: This highlighter is just a demo. Thus, it is not fool proof. Never ever click on the script item "enemy highlighter" after you have updated the list. Otherwise the internal enemy list gets cleared, but the triggers are not deleted, resulting in adding another 1600 or so triggers each time you update the list again. To do this properly, you'd need to store the trigger ids of the associated enemy temp triggers somewhere and delete the triggers, when you clear the enemy list. Anyways, this package works well if you don't click on the script.

[eraldo]

Is this still the way to go?
Or is this deprecated due to newer version of mudlet?

[Heiko]

This package is still valid. Of course there are other ways of achieving the same goals. This package is a special purpose package meant for IRE MUDs where players can have several thousand enemies due to clans, houses, cities and whatnot. It's optimized for a large amount of enemies.

[rolly]

This works very well as written but i think it could have other uses. Can you show a simple alias to remove a name from the list? I tried listRemove( hl.enemyList_ids, matches[2] ) with the proper alias and it didn't work. Often times city enemies help each other raid a 3rd party and its annoying to keep seeing your temporary ally as an enemy. Then simply rechecking your city enemies could restore the list after the raid is done.

[Vadi]

Code: [show] | [select all] lua

killTrigger(hl.enemyList_ids[matches[2]])
hl.enemyList_ids[matches[2]] = nil

Should do it off the top of my head

[rolly]

It certainly did. Thanks.

If it isn't too much trouble is there an easy way to insert a name manually?