Hi.

thanks Maloc.

Sadly, stil didn't work.

the trigger seemed to take, ---- ie vip mud accepted it without errors, but the game stil refuses to read that text.

I'm now wondering if it's a sapi issue.

I'll try reading a similar stream of text with jim kitchin's sapi text reader and see how they come out.

Eddit: okay after a quick comparison with a friend of mine, also trying vip mud, materia magica, sapi, windows xp and scansoft daniel, and the status line read without any hastle. #

therefore, it's a sapi config problem on my end.

If anyone has any suggestions on fixing this I'd very much appreciate it.

The only thing I thought to try was the deluserlex.exe file from Jim kitchin's site, ----- but that did no good.

Can I get an example of what's troubling you?

Well, this might be long, but bare with me.

#trigger {~<* hp * mp * st~>} {#gagline all;#var hp %1;#var mp %2;#var stamina %3}

#key f2 {#say{@hp hp, @mp mp, #stamina st}}

Then you could hit f2 for your info?

sorry dark.  that was my error:

#key f2 {#say {@hp hp, @mp mp, #stamina st}}

aaaaagh! this is getting complex.

I'm at my parents' now on my laptop, ---- so won't be able to try any of these scripting suggestions until next week.

I like the idea of specifically ordering vip mud to say the numbers in the brackits, sinse if it is the case that the less than greater than is acting as a silencing prompt, that should hopefully get around it.

I will however also download a fresh copy of Vip mud and see how it works out with my laptop, ----- eventually I would've wanted a copy of the program and an access key for my laptop anyway so this isn't anything out of the ordinary.

Okay, I downloaded a fresh copy of vip mud today and tried it on my laptop, ---- also running xp, sapi and scansoft daniel.

Same thing happened again, that bloody status line isn't being read.

I'll try the scripting you suggest and see how that works.

Eddit: Okay, I coppied Malloc's script commands with the new version of the f2 command line.

The script took okay, however sapi stil refused to speak the actual values. it simply said "hp, mp, staminer, with no values described, even when the appropriate line was indeed on screen (I checked with Hal).

I'm now wondering if there is a way to actually stop the display of those less than greater than signs, and thus have that text read by sapi normally?

As one of the features listed was hide Aski art, I'd assume there was a way of doing this, ---- but my mucking about with the options haven't yielded any results, so something perhaps in the scripting would help, ---- though i'm afraid I have no idea how to do that either.

appologies for being such a pest, but any further assistance here would help a lot.

I did wonder that myself, but trying with microsoft Mike and Sam didn't yield any better results.

While I know the less than and greater than signs aren't actually aski art, sinse it's their display which seems to be causing the issues with sapi reading that line, I was wondering if there was a basic scripting method to simply have them not displayed in Vip mud?

Afterall, their not exactly commonly used symbols. I assumed if Vip mud is able to hide aski art, ---- it miht be scripted to hide other symbols as well, ---- hence my logic, though i'm again not sure how to do this I'm afraid.

As I said, I have played with that option, but setting it at the three ways it can be set doesn't do any good for the reading of said status line, ----- sinse as you sai, less than and greater than are here used as brackits, not as aski art, ---- which is why I wondered if it might take a script to physically hide them.

Your suggestion did sound good, but I'm afraid I have no idea how to even start adding the various commands you mentioned as I have litle idea yet how scripting works, ----- when i can get the muds in a playable state, then I will worry about scripting.

would you mind please either typing the scripting commands here so I can copy and paste, or giving a step by step guide?

Much appologies, ---- as I said I'm incredibly new at this.

Hi.

I tried this as well, ---- but once more I could tell no difference.

I added it as a new trigger, and coppied the code into the commands box, okayed it, ---- but nada!

Furthermore, when reading the screen with Hal, it did seem that the less than greater than signs were stil being displayed, ----- grrrr!

this is really! annoying me.

I'll send Gma games another E-mail, sinse this situation is absolutely dire, ---- particularly as I bought vip mud expressly because! it was sapi compatible.

Sometimes it can be a pain in the backside triggering on prompts. Sadly muds don't always terminate the prompt properly, so it appears as part of the same line as some other output.

Maybe try changing it to trigger on :
<*>*
And have it say:
%1, %2

This is very awkward sometimes though.

As an alternative, does the mud permit you to change your prompt? Some allow you to completely redefien the prompt, including the use of < and >.