Can you turn squelch on and off?

[Cuin]

I'm wondering if there is a way to turn certain squelches on and off with a hot key or command line command.

It'd be nice for being in town to turn off most things other than communication or body movement type scroll (in other words keep all the "says, leans, grins, enters, leaves, laughs, etc ...), but get rid of all the spell ups, bundling, spells wearing off, etc .. And then be able to allow everything again for traveling, hunting, etc.

New to lich so still earning it. But for now looks like I'd have to create a squelch string the turn each one on and off to do that.

Thanks,

[Tillmen]

You can squelch things with a Lich script, and you could create hot keys to start or kill the script.

There's a script named squelch on the repository. Apparently, if you start the script before setting it up, it freezes the game/Lich. It looks like it is meant to squelch only the people you specify, which sounds like it may not suit your needs.

Here's the basics of creating a squelching script:



hook_proc = proc { |server_string|
if server_string =~ /put some regex here/
nil
else
server_string
end
}
begin
DownstreamHook.add('arbitrary-name', hook_proc)
loop { sleep 1 }
ensure
DownstreamHook.remove('arbitrary-name')
end


This script creates a DownstreamHook, and removes it when the script exits. Each time a line comes in from the game, Lich sends it through all the DownstreamHooks in some order. The last line executed in the hook_proc is what the DownstreamHook returns (you can't actually use "return" in a proc), and what is sent to the next hook or to the frontend when all the hooks are done. If any hook returns nil then nothing is sent to the remaining hooks or frontend.

So all you need to edit on this script is the part that says /put some regex here/. The tricky part is that you're matching against the xml game stream. So, if you see this in the game window and want to squelch it:

Dargrahraag murmurs a simple, mystical chant...
Dargrahraag concentrates.
Dargrahraag's right eye looks better.
Your hook proc is seeing something more like this:

<a exist="-11054692" noun="Dargrahraag">Dargrahraag</a> murmurs a simple, mystical chant...
<a exist="-11054692" noun="Dargrahraag">Dargrahraag</a> concentrates.
<a exist="-11054692" noun="Dargrahraag">Dargrahraag's</a> right eye looks better.

To squelch these three lines for any name, you could use this for the regex:
/^<.*?>[A-Z][a-z]+<.*?> (?:murmurs a simple, mystical chant\.\.\.|concentrates\.|right eye looks better\.)$/

You can find good info about regular expressions at http://www.regular-expressions.info

You can see what the xml game stream looks like with a script like this:
status_tags; loop { echo get }

Here's another example to show how to squelch only part of a line:

hook_proc = proc { |server_string|
if server_string =~ /^<.*?>[A-Z][a-z]+<.*?> (?:murmurs a simple, mystical chant\.\.\.|concentrates\.|right eye looks better\.)$/
nil
elsif server_string =~ /^(<.*>)You feel more refreshed.$/
$1
else
server_string
end
}
begin
DownstreamHook.add('arbitrary-name', hook_proc)
loop { sleep 1 }
ensure
DownstreamHook.remove('arbitrary-name')
end

In this example, the game line:

<dialogData id='minivitals'><skin id='manaSkin' name='manaBar' controls='mana' left='25%' top='0%' width='25%' height='100%'/><progressBar id='mana' value='100' text='mana 331/331' left='25%' customText='t' top='0%' width='25%' height='100%'/></dialogData>You feel more refreshed.

would be changed to:

<dialogData id='minivitals'><skin id='manaSkin' name='manaBar' controls='mana' left='25%' top='0%' width='25%' height='100%'/><progressBar id='mana' value='100' text='mana 331/331' left='25%' customText='t' top='0%' width='25%' height='100%'/></dialogData>

Which means you don't have to read "You feel more refreshed.", but your mana bar still gets updated.

[Cuin]

oof ... that look like a lot.

Thanks for the reply, I'm gonna have to study it for awhile first before I make an attempt :D