Greetings everyone, I come before you all with a problem that has been causing me great irritation. Essentially, I am a huge reading guy, and would quite happily read the entire library given the chance, which I plan to do at some point or another, hehe. Coincidentally, I've been assigned a Job much like it for my Librarian Aide posistion, and have been doing my best to finish reading swaths of texts. But on to the problem. Do to much difficulty I have been having, I am forced to play good 'ol Lusty through the flash client, and as a result, reading books becomes a living hell for me. Not to mention my internet access is erratic at best, openly malignant at worst. As such, it is almost impossible for me to read while in game. As you can imagine, this is quite crippling to both my enjoyment and my duties. While ruminating on this problem, I stuck upon a thought only you guys will be able to help me with (Cue mission impossible music here)

To put it quite simply, I need some way to compile these texts in an offline form that I can read at my leisure, with out having to individually copy and paste vast amount of texts, irritating the crap out of me. As such, I was wondering if there is a way something could be made that would quickly copy these things for me, ready to be saved onto a file. I would do it myself, but I have the comparative coding abilities of a cat walking on a keyboard. To be honest, I really could care less if it edited or anything, I just want something that will put a large amount of text down that I can copy into a file and read at my own convenience. Whatever works, really. Functionality is key here. and while bells and whistles are all well and good, I really just care about the books. Also, realize I am on Flash/nexus, so something in the form of a trigger is probably all I can do. At least until I set my computer on fire hoping somehow that will make MUSH work.

So, my question to all of you is.... Can it be done? I also recognize there might be some problem with rights issues, but I'm so desperate I couldn't care less. But yes, thank you all for your time, and wish me luck

Not an expert on the flash client, but I think it has HTML logging somewhere... Might play around with that.

You should be able to make some triggers, which goes through all the books in the library of your choosing and saves all the data into a variable. (I know it was possible on nexus)

Then you can just copy and paste that variable to a webpage or email or something.

Or maybe someone will be kind enough to do that for you and put it up somewhere. (hint new wiki hint)

Oh and have you tried Xiel's website? not sure how much data that has.

Where is documentation on Nexus? That's described as a Java client, so the Flash client is something else? Is there a link to that and any documentation? I've spent quite a bit of time trolling lusternia.com and I haven't found anything of use.

I think the java client help is here - http://www.ironrealms.com/nexus/help.html, and there's some flash client help at http://bc-dev.net/projects/fmud/fmud-scripting/. Maybe, anyway.

Well, as I said before, I have no coding ability outside of HTML, which doesn't help. I mean to learn it, but that isn't happening right now, hehe. So I don't even know what HTML logging really is, other then a wild guess.

As for the variable thing, that is exactly what I am looking for! Only thing now is to find how to do it. I'm perfectly willing to use Nexus to use that if necessary. I checked Xiel's site, but he definitely doesn't have the books there, though that would be cool. And somehow I doubt the New wiki will put up every book ever written on the Wiki..... Although that would be epic if they did. Either way, I guess I'm still at the same point. So any suggestions on how to find out how to do this, even if it means making it myself?

I don't know if this is appropriate, but most clients have some sort of logging feature, where everything is captured and saved to a file. The flash client that IRE offer kind of has this, although you can only take snapshots of what is on the screen.

If that will suffice, all you need to do is find a client with the logging feature for your particular computer, and then spam-read through all the books you need so that all the information is saved to the log file?

Great, thanks.