TAB COMPLETES WORDS IN MUDLET

Rangor

Hey, did you know you can write a few letters in a word then use tab to complete it? I didn't!

But it sometimes makes me target funny things, could anyone help me change it so it only uses words from my ndb database or enemy list?

Seifur

Tab completion only pulls non-echo text from the main console in descending order.

Mishgul

ye

Rangor

Ah. So i gotta stay away from The mermaids to target merador.

Ernam

Still doesn't work for people using OSX =(.  Fortunately I never used this before I switched, so I don't notice it.

For targeting purposes, you don't actually need to type in an entire name (unless you're using serverside targeting), and spell-check still works just fine, so it's not that big of a deal.

Rangor

Ernam said:

Still doesn't work for people using OSX =(.  Fortunately I never used this before I switched, so I don't notice it.

For targeting purposes, you don't actually need to type in an entire name (unless you're using serverside targeting), and spell-check still works just fine, so it's not that big of a deal.

 Aff tracker don't like it when I don't use full names.

Ernam

Rangor said:

Ernam said:

Still doesn't work for people using OSX =(.  Fortunately I never used this before I switched, so I don't notice it.

For targeting purposes, you don't actually need to type in an entire name (unless you're using serverside targeting), and spell-check still works just fine, so it's not that big of a deal.

 Aff tracker don't like it when I don't use full names.

Mine doesn't mind!

Nemutaur

How about helping him out instead?

function isTarget(p)
  return string.starts(p, string.title(target))
end

Sena

Seifur said:

Tab completion only pulls non-echo text from the main console in descending order.

Is there no way to manipulate it? In zMUD/CMUD there's a command to add/remove words to the list for tab completion. I could also implement my own custom tab completion by just setting tab as a macro that does whatever I want to the text in the command line. Setting it to try and match names from a database would take about 30 seconds.

Seifur

There's no options to modify it in the 'Settings' window and it appears to be hardcoded, but I'm not familiar enough with cpp to be sure.

https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet/blob/development/src/TCommandLine.cpp#L142
https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet/blob/development/src/TCommandLine.cpp#L559

Ernam

Nemutaur said:

How about helping him out instead?

To answer your question literally:  Because the answer is a single, simple function call (as you demonstrated).

However, here's what Gz uses:

gz.startsWith = function (String,Start)  return string.sub(String,1,string.len(Start))==Start end

gz.isTarget = function (name)
	if gz.startsWith(string.lower(name),string.lower(target)) or
		gz.startsWith(string.lower(target),string.lower(name)) 
	then 
		return true
	else 
		return false
	 end 
end

Vadimuses

Ernam said:

Still doesn't work for people using OSX =(.  Fortunately I never used this before I switched, so I don't notice it.

For targeting purposes, you don't actually need to type in an entire name (unless you're using serverside targeting), and spell-check still works just fine, so it's not that big of a deal.

Just had a look and it does work on OSX. Haven't heard anyone mention that it doesn't either.

Kenway

Of course it does! How else would I target people like Szanthax or Caoimhaen?

Nemutaur

The problem I have on OS X is that once you open the script/trigger editor and you try to use TAB completion it will complete the word but select the script/editor window (if its in the background or has already been closed). So you lose focus from mudlet and the input field and have to command tab back or click back.

So all in all its quicker to just type out a name or use short targeting.

Vadimuses

Tested on 10.10 and 10.8 and this didn't happen

Ernam

I have 10.10 and hitting tab moves the focus to somewhere other than the input box.  Not sure where, but it isn't anywhere helpful.

Rangor

Will have to play with this. Thanks!

Nemutaur

Vadimuses said:

Tested on 10.10 and 10.8 and this didn't happen

What version of Qt do you have? I think its a Qt thing.

Vadimuses

The same one you're running. Qt comes with Mudlet, not to be confused with QuickTime.

Here's a screencast - http://ge.tt/2QNhvH92/v/0

Vadimuses

Ernam said:

I have 10.10 and hitting tab moves the focus to somewhere other than the input box.  Not sure where, but it isn't anywhere helpful.

Doesn't do that either for me, see above

Nemutaur

Ok here's an example of it not working, just recorded this
http://ge.tt/2uKY2I92/v/0

Now weird thing is I restarted mudlet, wanted to record it working and then enter the script editor to show it not working. But it continued working. I'm trying to figure out what I did to make it break and cause the lose focus bug. Oh and Merador has the same problem, another OS X user.

Vadimuses

Okay, if you can suss it out that'd be great. Report the issue on https://bugs.launchpad.net/mudlet/+filebug after.

Vadimuses

Test with the 3.0.0-delta as well please. Don't quite recall which version of Qt is 2.1 built with on OSX, but it seems 4.7 had some issues.

Nemutaur

I really can't narrow it down. It's not moving scripts around like I suspected, or making new ones or anything. The only consistent thing is it happens after ~20 mins of play for me.

I'd check with delta if I could stand playing on that client for more than 5 minutes due to the resizing bug. Because as soon as the input wraps around to 2 lines it resizes the whole client to about the same size as the profile selector window again. If you have a fix for that that I could do personally I'll check it out.

Vadimuses

That one is unfortunately a Qt issue, see here.