Hello!
Here's a tricky one for you:

Is there any way to have a trigger place output -before- the line that fired the trigger?

Like, a silly example:
You have mud output like this...



And a trigger that fires on any digit, and outputs some text before the firing pattern, so you'd end up with your modified mud output looking like...



As far as I can see so far, it's simply impossible with zmud. Any ideas?

hmm.. that's a weird request.. *chin* I don't think its possible without being really anal with coding.

What do you want it for?

I can't think of a way you could do it in ZMUD, but you could code a proxy to sit between the server and ZMUD that did your triggering for you, then it would just pass the output you wanted to see to ZMUD.

That'd be rather overkill for the kind of purpose I'm looking for that trigger...
Though, if anyone knows a scriptable mud proxy, I'm looking for that too. PM me or something *grin*


It's more a general thing I'm wondering about.
Mostly cosmetic uses... might be neat if you could do it.

You could make a substitution trigger that would replace the trigger text with something and perhaps add a modified form of the line you triggered on. It would appear to be outputting before the trigger fired, so it might have the effect you want. Look into the #SUB and #PSUB commands and play around. Use %crlf to insert a line feed, if you want to break up your added text and the trigger firing text.

aye, thats's how I do that sort of thing usually *ponder* hoped one of you had come up with a more elegant way to do it

For your example, you could do:


I'm not entirely sure if that'd work though.

That's pretty much exactly what I had already suggested, just in source code form.

That's why I said "for example", as an example of what you mentioned .