Getting started, some questions

Zeno wrote: My MUD (BIYG) is fairly niche, so my goal has always been to aim outside the MUD community for players. At one point I had a Facebook app pointing to a webpage on my server that hosted FMud, which connected to the MUD. It brought in chunks of new mudders, but Facebook's API changes too much for me to keep up.

I'm definitely hoping to move to MudPortal as the main point of contact for non-mudders, so I'll probably have some questions as I begin to roll this out.

Zeno wrote: 1) I'm implementing MSSP soon, any thoughts if MudPortal can interact/benefit there?

Zeno wrote: 2) Is it possible to disable triggers on my client for BIYG?

Config.notriggers = 1;

Zeno wrote: 3) Can we set a default window size? Would it be bad to default it maximized which overwrites the MudPortal MUD list?

Config.width = 900;

Config.width = '100%';

Zeno wrote: 4) Is it possible to setup chat windows? Maybe this is a good example for me to follow?

Zeno wrote: 5) Can we personalize the client/play window? Add some text or images?

j('#page').css({
        background: 'url("/images/Bedlam_Bg.png") no-repeat fixed 0 0 #000000',
        width: '100%',
        margin: '0px auto'
    });

Event.listen('scrollview_ready', function() { 
//customize
});

Zeno wrote: Interesting. Is there a way to ignore or strip the color? My chat looks like:

<GREEN>Zeno chats '<CYAN>Hello there<GREEN>'

But sometimes players personalize their chats, and can make it like:

<GREEN>Zeno chats '<CYAN><WHITE>Hello there<GREEN>'

So matching colors is pretty hard when players can control their own colors sent.

Zeno wrote:

but then you lose the ability to display those lines in the colors the author intended.

I think I'd actually prefer this. So what would I be stripping, the raw ANSI color tags from the output? I'll play around with before_process.

Event.listen('before_process', function(d) {
var lines = d.split('\n');
//for each line in lines
//if line is communication
line = Colorize.stripANSI(line);
return lines.join('\n');
});

Zeno wrote: On the subject of questions, is there a way to pass the original IP address of the user?

Zeno wrote: ...I can't seem to load my MUD page under my user.

www.mudportal.com/play?host=biyg.org&port=1801

This will take me to the raw MUD, with none of my JS loaded. It works as a guest. In the JS console, there's an error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '' of undefined on MacroPane.js?v=62:26