Newbie Help with Buttons

[Daarknes]

Ok, I am a complete noob to Mudlet, coming over from Cmud, and I wasn't even good at scripting on there, so bear with me and my noobness please.

I have two problems that I think are related. I have tried to make keybindings for my numpad to get the walking functions back(i.e. 1-SW, 2-S,3-SE, etc etc) never was able to make it work. I also tried making buttons for the same thing, thinking that there is more than one way to skin a gnome. For my buttons I was using

Button name:South and Command on button down: send("south")(I also tried, south, send(south), send('south'))

So far, nothing has worked. Unfortunately, at least for me, the section on buttons and key bindings in the manual made no sense.

Do I have to set up aliases or something for these before I can use them? I didn't think I would need to because I am not substituting any text or anything. Thanks in advance for your help.

[kakku]

you want to use the Keys option.

click on the Keys icon.
click Add Item.
give it a name.
give it a command, ex. north
click on the blue key binding block.
then click and hold on the Grab New Key and enter the desired key on your numpad or whatever.
click Save Item.
click Activate.

voila!
rince and repeat.

[Heiko]

1. "command on button down" is a clear text command for the MUD, no Lua script. If you want to run a Lua script use the large Lua script box below.
If you have an older version of Mudlet it is possible that the clear text command boxes are not working. There have been bugs in the past. In this case put send("south") in the Lua script box. This always works.

2. Don't forget to activate the buttons/keys

[Daarknes]

That's what I had done the first time. Apparently, I needed to close and reopen Mudlet in order for the changes to take effect. Thanks for your help, I was really starting to get frustrated.