I have a solution. Use ATCP to get your experience updates in the background and stop using auto-score! 
QUOTE(Zarquan @ Aug 5 2007, 05:18 PM) 431610
1. Fixed positions are less flexible and portable. I tried that and wasn't happy with the results when moving to different machines with different resolutions. It's also just painful to align a couple dozen buttons by hand.
2. When writing text scripts to create buttons, always use 0 as the button's number (unless maybe you just want to overwrite the existing versions of the buttons and you know their numbers already). Using 0 tells zMUD to increment starting with your current highest button number. Just another way to make buttons more portable.
3. It doesn't look like you included variables in your buttons for updating the gauges... ?
2. When writing text scripts to create buttons, always use 0 as the button's number (unless maybe you just want to overwrite the existing versions of the buttons and you know their numbers already). Using 0 tells zMUD to increment starting with your current highest button number. Just another way to make buttons more portable.
3. It doesn't look like you included variables in your buttons for updating the gauges... ?
1) True. But I play with the window maximized on one computer. So it doesn't matter to me
And I've found manual buttons to be easier, and you can make it look nicer.2) Dunno. Portability doesn't matter to me, I just do it fast as I can, and thats what doing ctrl+b gave me in the settings editor.
3) Right, just did the formatting in the right place, he obviously has update code already. I don't use gauges, so I would have had to write up the code and remember how to use them
Zarquan... can you tell me what ATCP is? ^.^;;; I is clueless! xD
And how do you use it? xD Then again, I'd still need to capture auto-score on level gains to get my new max numbers and my new rank.
And how do you use it? xD Then again, I'd still need to capture auto-score on level gains to get my new max numbers and my new rank.
Achaea Telnet Client Protocol (though all IRE games use it, so the name is a bit of a misnomer now, really). Nexus uses it to keep the GUI updated and you can use it, too, if you have the right software. I use LMTS, which is a modified form of IMTS (Imperian to Lusternia conversion). There are threads on it under the Project L forum, and you can do a search for more info. I use a custom Lua script with LMTS to put the percent-to-next-level right in my prompt. It's very convenient. 
LMTS replaces the GA/EOR with a CR/LF, so your client can still trigger prompts with CR/LF. If you play from somewhere that you don't have LMTS, for whatever reason, you just need to add the linebreak for that session and remove it later. I even put a trigger in Palisade that auto-adds the linebreak for people, just to avoid the dozens of people that would inevitably not read the documentation and complain that the system did nothing.
Yes, they're all buttons. Yes, the little buttons you see on the pictures are using absolute alignment. Personally, I don't find them all that useful, and they're more trouble than they're worth. Here's an older screenshot of my GUI. It's all built from a text script and is very easily re-loaded. The only thing a user has to do is put it on the right or left side to make it all line up nicely.
Yes, they're all buttons. Yes, the little buttons you see on the pictures are using absolute alignment. Personally, I don't find them all that useful, and they're more trouble than they're worth. Here's an older screenshot of my GUI. It's all built from a text script and is very easily re-loaded. The only thing a user has to do is put it on the right or left side to make it all line up nicely.
