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RyslingofBloodfin
Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:25 pm
#1
Ok I have a very large text file I made to make traveling around alot easier and ive hit a little snag. here is an example of what im doing..
yavmin-cortyr: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport single
yavmin-corcor: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Coronet_Starport single
yavmin-corkor: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Kor_Vella_Starport single
yavmin-cordoa: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Doaba_Guerfel_Starport single
yavlab-cortyr: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport single
yavlab-corcor: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Coronet_Starport single
yavlab-corkor: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Kor_Vella_Starport single
yavlab-cordoa: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Doaba_Guerfel_Starport single
Now this works fine until I add the second group in the text file in case I want a round trip ticket which reads like this...
yavmin-cortyr2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport
yavmin-corcor2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Coronet_Starport
yavmin-corkor2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Kor_Vella_Starport
yavmin-cordoa2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Doaba_Guerfel_Starport
yavlab-cortyr2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport
yavlab-corcor2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Coronet_Starport
yavlab-corkor2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Kor_Vella_Starport
yavlab-cordoa2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Doaba_Guerfel_Starport
Now here is the problem, when I type /yavmin-cortyr to buy a one way ticket to Tyrena it does the yavmin-cortyr2 command instead. Any suggestions on how to get this working right? Thanks in advance.
yavmin-cortyr: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport single
yavmin-corcor: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Coronet_Starport single
yavmin-corkor: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Kor_Vella_Starport single
yavmin-cordoa: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Doaba_Guerfel_Starport single
yavlab-cortyr: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport single
yavlab-corcor: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Coronet_Starport single
yavlab-corkor: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Kor_Vella_Starport single
yavlab-cordoa: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Doaba_Guerfel_Starport single
Now this works fine until I add the second group in the text file in case I want a round trip ticket which reads like this...
yavmin-cortyr2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport
yavmin-corcor2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Coronet_Starport
yavmin-corkor2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Kor_Vella_Starport
yavmin-cordoa2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Doaba_Guerfel_Starport
yavlab-cortyr2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport
yavlab-corcor2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Coronet_Starport
yavlab-corkor2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Kor_Vella_Starport
yavlab-cordoa2: /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Labor_Outpost corellia Doaba_Guerfel_Starport
Now here is the problem, when I type /yavmin-cortyr to buy a one way ticket to Tyrena it does the yavmin-cortyr2 command instead. Any suggestions on how to get this working right? Thanks in advance.
SirRafaelBH
Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:56 pm
#2
To create an alias, type '/alias aliasname aliascommands'
So to create an alias for that, you would type (ingame):
/alias yavmin-cortyr /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport single
After this, you can type '/yavmin-cortyr' to type out that block of text.
It may be that alias names don't read numbers, try just an alternate alias name.
Message Edited by SirRafaelBH on 10-05-2004 11:58 PM
RyslingofBloodfin
Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:09 am
#3
This is part of a large text file that I have in my star wars directory. I can type /load easy.txt In game to get all of these alias's available to me in one shot. easy.txt is the name of my text file. Maybe the number is the problem ill have to mess around with this after work. I just need it to be something realtivly easy to type and remeber to keep inline with my nameing convention that I used throughout the whole file.
quite_explorer
Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:16 pm
#4
SirRafaelBH wrote:
To create an alias, type '/alias aliasname aliascommands'
So to create an alias for that, you would type (ingame):
/alias yavmin-cortyr /purchaseticket yavin4 Yavin_IV_Mining_Outpost corellia Tyrena_Starport single
After this, you can type '/yavmin-cortyr' to type out that block of text.
It may be that alias names don't read numbers, try just an alternate alias name.
Message Edited by SirRafaelBH on 10-05-2004 11:58 PM
You are very right. I have a somewhat similiar problem. I use aliases for my pets, and being a Master Creature Handler I have the maximum number of pets, which is 22.
To have all my pets attack I use a macro: /pet1at;/pet2at;/pet3at;
Then for different pets I change the value of the alias for pet1at or pet2 etc.
One alias is: /alias pet2at /tellpet right attack;
What I have noticed is that these work just fine but then I can't use the game command to pet a pet: /pet
So numbers aren't a problem it seems, but there does seem to be a problem with it finding the first that matches and uses that. It must do a search through the aliases before the commands. That would explain the problem I have having with the command "/pet" not being able to be used.
groovysplat101
Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:22 pm
#5
In the second case, its to do with how the game searches for commands. with a command such as /fire1, it would refine its search to all commands beginning with f. Then, it goes for fi. Then fir. fire. fire1. It does it letter by letter. Its how most MMOs work...even the text-based ones. I had the same sort of problem when I did a TBG ages ago...a programmer guy tried to explain it in lamens terms for me. Lol.
I set up an alias for "/up" as "/up" (it was different, but you get the idea). It ended up so that "/up" triggered the "/up" alias...it got into a loop. With "/pet", its probably to do with the fact that the game is searching for the next letter - it knows that there is a /pet1at command, but there's nothing after /pet to show its unique. It finds /pet, and waits for the next letter. If you changed your commands to /p1at, it'd solve the problem.
I think.
To fix the first problem...shove a 1 on the end of the 1-way tickets. Then, when it gets to that point, it will know that one command is 1, and another is 2. You need to have a point in one of the aliases where its different to the other...the game is effectively waiting for the 2 to get typed, and will continue to do so until it gets a 1 or something.
Message Edited by groovysplat101 on 10-09-2004 01:25 AM
RyslingofBloodfin
Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:52 pm
#6
Thanks a ton that makes alot of sense now. I didnt realise that anyone had replied to this as it got buried pretty bad the day I posted. Ill try this out tonight.
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