Bolding a Captured Variable for Echo?

Exelethril

Hello,

Looking for help in regards to capturing a wildcard via a trigger and bolding that particular wildcard in an echo.

Zahan

Are you having trouble capturing the wildcard?  If so, let's see the pattern.

Capturing it already?  Is it safe to assume you're on mudlet?

There is a pretty easy way to do bold echos in mush, by setting a note style before the note.  Not sure about mid-line though, I haven't tried that yet.  Definitely not sure about mudlet.

I usually just change the colour of the word in the sentence, but bolding stuff sounds fun.  I might try it myself.

Ahmet

selectCaptureGroup (2) setBold (true) deselect ()

Exelethril

I don't have any trouble with capturing it. It's the bolding in the echo part that I'm having trouble with.

@Ahmet : Oh, what does selectCaptureGroup(2) do?

Ahmet

selectCaptureGroup selects whatever text is in the matches group for your current trigger. 1 for the whole line, 2 for your first capture group, etc.

Exelethril

I tried this, still doesn't seem to work HMMM

^(\w+) leaves to the (\w+).   (perl regex)

if target == matches[2] then

direction = matches[3]:upper()

selectCaptureGroup (3) setBold (true) deselect ()

cecho("\n <GreenYellow> MOVED ::::::> [ >> " ..direction.. " << ]")

cecho("\n <GreenYellow> MOVED ::::::> [ >> " ..direction.. " << ]")

cecho("\n <GreenYellow> MOVED ::::::> [ >> " ..direction.. " << ]")

cecho("\n <GreenYellow> MOVED ::::::> [ >> " ..direction.. " << ]")

end

Atalkez

You have the beginning anchor but not the end. Also you're not escaping your period at the end.

^(\w+) leaves to the (\w+)\.$

Also, when you select the capture group, you may need to use matches[3] instead of just 3. I could be wrong on this one though.

Exelethril

Thanks but capturing isn't the problem though. It captures both variables without the anchor.

Atalkez

Try to select direction too?

selectCaptureGroup(direction)
setBold(true)
deselect()

no idea if you can do that or not 

Ahmet

Cant do that, no.

Ryzeth

If you're trying to bold the echo, I'm pretty sure you can't. Could be wrong, though. Nothing I tried in the past worked at least.

Ahmet

You can bold an echo by using setBold(true) before your echo. It's nearly indistinguishable from regular text unless you highlight it or use a very large font size, though.

Exelethril

Ok well, thanks anyways, guys. I'll just pay more attention to the unbolded stuff.

setBold(true) works on echoes but not on specific variables, I think?

Ahmet

Setbold should work on your trigger as well as long as you've selected the text (which selectCaptureGroup does)

Tydas

The setBold function doesn't work with cecho, only with standard echo or insertText. That's why it's not working.

Exelethril

Is there a way to make it work with cecho?

Tydas

Exelethril said:

Is there a way to make it work with cecho?

There's a workaround. Try this:

cecho("\n <GreenYellow> MOVED ::::::> [ >> ")<br>setBold(true)<br>fg("GreenYellow")<br>echo(direction)<br>resetFormat()<br>cecho("<GreenYellow>&nbsp;<< ]")

You can put it all on one line, like so, for easy reading:

cecho("\n <GreenYellow> MOVED ::::::> [ >> "); setBold(true); fg("GreenYellow");&nbsp;echo(direction); resetFormat();&nbsp;cecho("<GreenYellow>&nbsp;<< ]")

Testing this, it works, and the text definitely bolds, though how easy it is to tell remains dependent on your font and font size.

Exelethril

Awesome, thanks!! That worked.