Peter says, "Hello, anyone home?"is redisplayed like this:
Jane says, "Yes, I'm here."
Bob says, "Me too!"
`Hello, anyone home?', asks Peter
`Yes,' says Jane. `I'm here'
`Me too!', exclaims Bob
This plugin's behaviour is controlled by the 'Speak weirdly' checkbox
in the Special Forces section of the Preferences Editor.
spell.tcl
As you type into the client's input window, unrecognised words
appear in red. If you think they're ok, then right-click on them
to add them to your personal dictionary. Otherwise you can just
ignore them, or correct those words yourself.
If you're using Windows or Macintosh then download the dictionary.zip as well and unzip it somewhere. The plugin's controls are in the Preferences Editor, under the Special Forces category. Use the [browse] button to make 'Main dictionary' point to the newly unzipped dictionary file. You can also select a file to contain your 'Personal dictionary' (I use a file name like 'personal.txt').
If you're using UNIX then the plugin will try to use either 'ispell'
or 'look'. You won't need use the dictionary.zip dictionary but
you should still select a 'Personal dictionary' file name.
rehash.tcl
The plugin allows the client to interract with servers which
understand the dns-com-awns-rehash
MCP/2.1 package. If you're on a MOO then you'll also need to use
a special Feature Object.
If dns-com-awns-rehash is available then the client will be able to tell which commands are available to be typed. If you're standing in a room containing a $note object then the client will know that the 'read' command is available. If the first word you type into the client's input window is 'read' then it'll be underlined, to show you that the client knows that this is a command.
This is only an indication that the first word on the command line matches a visible command, it's up to you, or a macro to decide if the line should then be sent in the form of a raw command or a spoken phrase.
Some helpful macros are provided by the client by default. If you really mean to 'say' a word then put a double-quote character (") in front of it. Otherwise just hit return and the client will send the command. Why bother? Well you don't need to type (") before each spoken line this way, just type stuff and hit [return].
You can turn the client's smart behaviour off by unchecking the 'Use Rehash Macros' checkbox, under the Special Forces category.
The Feature Object implements 3 commands of its own:
@create $thing named wibbleNow the client now knows about the new 'wobble' command.
@verb wibble:wobble
@rehash
? honda automobilesThe plugin's controls are under the Special Forces category of the Preferences Editor. Uncheck the 'Use Search Engines' checkbox to stop the '?' from causing searches. Or pick aonther search engine from the 'Preferred search-engine' list.
The plugin's controls are under the Special Forces category of the
Preferences Editor. You can turn links off by unchecking 'Hyperlink
URLs'. Choose a link colour from 'Link colour'. Choose an underline
style for the links from the list in 'Underline hyperlinks'.
subwindow.tcl
This plugin adds a procedure 'subwindow.display
$framename $message' to your Triggers environment. You can
write triggers to pick up pages etc and redirect them to a subwindow.
A macro will look at what you type in the subwindow and send it to
the MOO, perhaps converting it to a page etc.
You can add triggers using the local editor, available from Tools->'Edit Triggers'.
Here's a simple example of a trigger and macro that recognises MOO 'page' messages and copies them into a subwindow:
trigger -regexp {^([^ ]*) pages, "(.*)"$} \ -command { subwindow.display $m1 $m2 } macro -regexp {^FROM_SUBWINDOW ([^ ]*) (.*)$} \ -command { io.outgoing "page $m1 with $m2" subwindow.display $m1 "You say, \"$m2\"" }
To help make permanent record-keeping easy, each time you 'scoop'
the HTML page is given a different name, constructed from the
current date. So it'll be easy to find pages you scooped from
yesterday or from last week.
serverinfo.tcl
This plugin supports the MCP/2.1 package dns-com-awns-serverinfo. When
the client connects, and shortly after MCP message negotiation,
it'll send a message requesting some information. The server can
then reply immediately, or perhaps any number of times in the future
with a set of URLs pointing to the server's home-page and help-page.
The client's Help menu contains a couple of new entries 'Server Home Page' and 'Server Help Page' which are normally grayed-out. If a URL is provided then these entries become active and invoking them will cause a webbrowser to open pointing to the relevant URL.