Barebones Mudlet

Kresslack

Am I the only one who still uses just a plain textwall these days? I see pictures of the GUI's people post and they're pretty cool.  Presently I don't have the time to mess around with trying to learn how to make them. Does anyone have a GUI system they use for sailing and limb counting? Just thought I'd ask, considering how convenient they seem to be. Thanks.

Dragonknight

Still waiting for Ship prompt in GMCP to even bother attempting it. Here's looking at you, @Cardan! 

Athrax

I have just a very generic label-based (not fancy at all) gui I use for limb counting (opponent and my own), toggling on and off certain groups of classes, etc..   It's nothing fancy at all though.  If you just want a simple gui for a limb counter, it's really not that hard to do with labels.

Synbios

I have a textwall constructed out of noun girders, verb scaffolding and adjective bricks, painted over with a nice coat of preposition. It is a nice wall.

Antonius

I have my output window on the left side and the Mudlet Mapper window on the right side. Vital information I might be interested in - such as current target, whether or not they have shield and rebounding, and their limb status - is added to Svo's custom prompt. I have timers for tracking target rebounding and salve (restoration) applies, but they just output coloured warnings to the main output.

I installed the old Achaea Fancy GUI (I think it was called), but all of the functionality is turned off (I disabled the triggers and aliases); it's just an image/compass graphic that I barely notice in a border at the very left of my screen; I could get the same thing from just having a blank border of equivalent width there. I always think I should build a GUI, but then I remember that I'm lazy and don't like change.

Strata

Tabbed chat on the bottom, mapper on the right, main window on the left. I have a small translucent grey bar with different shades of yellow text at the top of my main window for target affliction tracking. Many of the major afflictions also go into my prompt and are represented by letters that spell out "LOCK!?" (paralysis asthma anorexia slickness impatience weariness) as well as other variables such as ginseng/kelp/goldenseal scores, target's tree balance, sileris, etc.

For some, GUI's are very pretty, enhancing their game, and making things easier to see. For me it's easier to have a lot of important information compressed into one spot (the prompt, or the grey bar) so I don't have to go into epileptic seizure moving my eyes all over the screen.

Trevize

I prefer just basics. Chat window, some bars, and a map.

http://s12.postimg.org/6hfz181b1/gui.png

Kresslack

I need to set up a chat window. I have no add ons or GUI or anything, but that's how I've always played so I've gotten used to it. Gonna try to figure out Geysur soon.

Shadizar

Kresslack said:

I need to set up a chat window. I have no add ons or GUI or anything, but that's how I've always played so I've gotten used to it. Gonna try to figure out Geysur soon.

If your starting from the ground up anyways I personally recommend taking a look at Vyzor. 

http://forums.mudlet.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2647

I've already setup likely all I ever will with geyser but kinda wished I'd started off with Vyzor. People make some really sweet looking stuff with it. 

Xli

Trevize said:

I prefer just basics. Chat window, some bars, and a map.

http://s12.postimg.org/6hfz181b1/gui.png

I would like bars like that... care to share that bit? I'll flutter my eyelashes at you...

Dragonknight

@Xli: @Trevize posted it someplace else before I can't remember where however, I did find the pastebin with it in it: http://pastebin.com/0GU5bMBj  

Xli

@DragonKnight-flutter-

Vadimuses

You aren't the only one. Never really had the time to setup my Achaean UI - it's quite plain. My sea UI looks way nicer than anything, even...

Trevize

Dragonknight said:

@Xli: @Trevize posted it someplace else before I can't remember where however, I did find the pastebin with it in it: http://pastebin.com/0GU5bMBj  

That's it.

Dunn

I run no extra windows or anything. One text wall with no tabbed chat etc. The fanciest thing is my prompt really, but it just has a lot of tags on it that signify important info for combat.

Exelethril

I'm reliant on a compass and health/mana/endurance/willpower bars along with a massive map window that takes 30% of my screen to keep track of things. Plain text is way too dull.

@Kresslack : Check out Vadi's Fancy GUI for Mudlet, might have to tinker around with the SCORE settings for it though. 

Jonathin

I have the mudlet map. Other than that it's just vanilla Mudlet.

Oh, oops. I didn't even look at the date of the last post.

Kresslack

Jonathin said:

I have the mudlet map. Other than that it's just vanilla Mudlet.

Oh, oops. I didn't even look at the date of the last post.

That's what I've been using for years. I've never even considered using GUI but it -does- have it's advantages. For instance, keeping up with tells and says while sailing can be a bit annoying, so even a simple window to track communications such as clt, ct, ht, says, and tell will help a lot. Something I need to get to work on eventually!

Jovolo

I will probably make a GUI for party and city tells soon now that I'm coming back a bit more regularly, but I've never really considered anything else. I hate having rainbows on my screen and it's highly impractical for the way I think and play. Even my system itself is near enough naked. Though it sounds like a really fun thing to experiment with.

Silas

I have a window for the mudlet map, and that leaves a lot of lucrative screen real estate under it that I've always thought I should make use of.

Can never be arsed, tho.

Kresslack

Silas said:

I have a window for the mudlet map, and that leaves a lot of lucrative screen real estate under it that I've always thought I should make use of.

Can never be arsed, tho.

I think last time I tried, I messed things up so badly and got so frustrated because at that point I wanted to play the game and not fiddle with it anymore.

Kresslack

Dragonknight said:

@Xli: @Trevize posted it someplace else before I can't remember where however, I did find the pastebin with it in it: http://pastebin.com/0GU5bMBj  

I put this in and it set the containers, but didn't seem to capture communications or adjust the bars appropriately. 

Trevize

@kresslack

If you mean the health/mana/etc bars - you have to send the % to them. Instructions are below the script for the bars:

-- let's set some base values

-- this is also your example of how to update them

-- just copy to a trigger and replace the 50 with your health percent

moonlightUI.hpbar:setValue (50, 100)

moonlightUI.mpbar:setValue (50, 100)

moonlightUI.edbar:setValue (50, 100)

moonlightUI.wpbar:setValue (50, 100)

moonlightUI.xpbar:setValue (50, 100)

You'd use perhaps an event with a system you're using, or a prompt trigger, whatever.

 

As for capturing communications - need a trigger for that too. Needs to match the communication (or whatever the tab is for - I actually used one tab to capture/shorten relevant combat text I wanted to keep an eye out for) and have the appropriate script. Script is at the bottom for that.

-- the following comment is how to send a trigger match to the a window

--   moonlightUI.sendChat ("Order")

(minus the comment of course)

Then there's more below that explaining how to change text or change colors.

Colors:

-- the following comment is how to send it with colors specified: foreground

-- is declared first, anything missing is assumed, and "nochange" means don't

-- change the colors

--   moonlightUI.sendChat ("Order", {255,255,255})

--   moonlightUI.sendChat ("Order", {255,255,255}, {0,0,0})

--   moonlightUI.sendChat ("Order", "nochange", {0,0,0})

And shortening text:

-- the following comment is how to replace long text with a shorter version

-- (this will replace it in the main window as well as the miniconsole)

--[[

selectString("(this is a very long clan name)", 1)

setBgColor(getBgColor())

setFgColor(getFgColor())

replace("(shortclanname)")

resetFormat ()

--]]

Kresslack

Thank you! Going to do that now.

Also, I ended up adding a tab for Market:

moonlightUI.createchat ("Market", "blue")

Edit:

Communications seem to be sending to the chat window twice. Any ideas?

Trevize

Kresslack said:

Communications seem to be sending to the chat window twice. Any ideas?

Weird. Never had that one happen. Paste the script of your trigger? Sendchat should definitely not be sending it twice.

moonlightUI.sendChat

should be doing:

appendBuffer ("ChatBox" .. chatwindow)

and

appendBuffer ("ChatBoxAll")

which sends it once to the specified chat window, and once to the 'all' window - so I'm wondering if you're calling the function twice for some reason? You should only have one "moonlightUI.sendChat" function in your capture trigger.

Another possibility is two triggers, for some reason, both doing that?

Kresslack

[spoiler][/spoider]

Vastus

Perhaps because you are sending it to the 'All' tab while everything already gets sent there in addition to the one you specify? (I had this with my own chat window first)

Kresslack

Vastus said:

Perhaps because you are sending it to the 'All' tab while everything already gets sent there in addition to the one you specify? (I had this with my own chat window first)

Nothing gets sent to all if I don't have the trigger, so not really sure what to do.

Vastus

The thing is you have a trigger, I believe that whenever you sent something to a tab it gets sent to the all tab too. I am not entirely sure, but just try to replace "All" in your trigger with any of the other tab names like "Guild". Just try it, it looks a lot like the tabbed chat I got, it will work.

Trevize

Vastus said:

Perhaps because you are sending it to the 'All' tab while everything already gets sent there in addition to the one you specify? (I had this with my own chat window first)

That is precisely the issue. An easy fix would be to create a function to send to All only.

Try putting this in the script:

moonlightUI.sendChatAll = function ()

  selectCurrentLine ()

  copy ()

  appendBuffer ("ChatBoxAll")

end -- func

Then just call moonlightUI.sendChatAll () in the trigger.

Trevize

Kresslack said:

Vastus said:

Perhaps because you are sending it to the 'All' tab while everything already gets sent there in addition to the one you specify? (I had this with my own chat window first)

Nothing gets sent to all if I don't have the trigger, so not really sure what to do.

The above fix is the solution. What it's actually doing is this:

  appendBuffer ("ChatBox" .. chatwindow)

  appendBuffer ("ChatBoxAll")

Which since chatwindow is "All" is turning into:

  appendBuffer ("ChatBox" .. "All")

  appendBuffer ("ChatBoxAll")

With the end result of:

  appendBuffer ("ChatBoxAll")

  appendBuffer ("ChatBoxAll")

The reasoning behind the 'All' window is so I can send City/Order/House stuff to their own windows for when I'm having conversations there specifically, but have the All window capture everything for when I just want to keep an eye on any chats with say, bashing/fighting. Never considered sending something to just that window.