FMud Scripting Tutorial – Aliases and Targetting

I found this video pretty well done. Although quite basic it provides a good starting point for those who wish to begin creating aliases. Perhaps an advanced alias, trigger, and macro series could come out showing some of the trickier programming syntaxes such as ‘if’ conditions and setting delays in execution.

great video. i did exactly what you did. now if only i was using fmud instead of flash :( can you made a video or point me to a video of targeting in flash?

I’m trying to make the targeting system like you have here. I can target the creature just fine, but when I got to SMITE it, using the alias S and the pattern send(‘smite’ + target) it’s not recognizing it. Any ideas?

Hi, I’m using your client on the Achaea MUD. I set up a simple three line code that worked when I first set it up, then later, it doesn’t work.

Alias: cfa *

execute:
echo(this[1]);
send(“cast firelash at “+this[1]);
send(“st kill “+this[1]);

The first time I ran it, this[1] became the proper target. Then later, I found that this[1] was null, and this[0] was cfa.

I’m sure I didn’t switch anything–all that happened was I quit and came back later. Any idea what is going on–if there is any work-around?

Oh, and I also noticed that the system doesn’t store backslashes between runs. This actually happens in your demonstration video when you quietly type them in after they disappeared.

Matt,
Thanks for your prompt reply. I tried a couple of things to work around this problem.

First, I upgraded from Flash 10,0,22,87 to Flash 10,0,42,34. This did NOT seem to have the desired effect. The problem continued.

Next, I tried copying the code, deleting the alias, and re-creating the alias from scratch (pasting in the old code.) THIS WORKED! However, it looks like I will have to do this copying and pasting every time I log in to the game.

I’m curious if you log off and log back on again, and try the alias again, does it still work? If not, maybe it is another issue on the IRE server side? Are they storing unseen character strings? Or are there two separate compilers depending on whether it compiles the code when you log in, or if it compiles the code when you type it into the alias box?

My sense is that if I edit an old alias, I can’t get the this[1] keyword to work, but if I create a new alias, the this[1] keyword works just fine. (I’m not 100% sure about this, though)

I like using your client, and I hope that this is helpful to you–I guess if you’re not having these issues there’s not much you can do. But I still appreciate your prompt reply.

Thanks,
Jonathan

I’ve tried everything I can think of. I’ve changed browsers, updated Java version, and flash version,
I did my best to clear out the browser cache. Finally, I ran CCleaner to clear out everything.

Same story in Internet Explorer and in Firefox. I’ve loaded the FMudClient from scratch several times now.

If you’re using a different browser, I could try that one. But I’m getting somewhat consistent results.

When I create a new alias, and use an asterisk for pattern matching, it works as expected. But if I export and import, it doesn’t work. If I go back in and edit the Alias *Pattern* box, (even if I type in exactly the same thing) it doesn’t work, and if I quit out, and log back in, it doesn’t work.

Maybe, even if you can’t duplicate the problem, you could still see if there is any difference in the subroutines for reading in a new alias (which seems to work well) vs. {modifying an old alias, importing an alias, loading an alias}. Just to see if it is exactly the same subroutine or not.

Thanks,
Jonathan

I’m having the same problems, just haven’t posted, been reading to see how you guys are trying to fix em :-)

I can’t get the echo to work. Could you type the exact code out for me please?