Must-Have Mux Functions?

Thenomain

Both @Chime and I share a love-hate relationship with Mux Code these days, but she keeps going back to make possible changes to the server to make it more usable, and I keep doing softcode bits for it. Right now my medium-term project with this is bringing the core SGP install up to date.

With that, I present a list of what I have put in as mandatory functions. Input or additions welcome.

(The addition I don't have here and am waffling on is ictime(). Seems like something that would belong to a different system.)

isstaff(): Not just 'is staff?' but levels for 'wizard' and 'admin/royalty' too.
header()/footer()/divider()/wheader()/etc.
msg(): Instead of having multiple ways of formatting '<game> message', we should have one
titlestr(): Makes Text Look a Lot Like This
lmax()/lmin(): max/min with a delimiter
isic(): for a different system?
shortdesc(): for a different system?
vcolumns()/vtable(): Chime and my vertical-column-output code
crumple(): trim() + squish(), I use this a lot
plural()
say(): simple way to format input into say/pose/emit output
lpmatch(): list-pmatch
width(): a replacement to built-in width() that uses a user-definable '&width' attribute

Alzie

Regarding lpmatch, does mux not have namelist()?

Thenomain

It does not.

Chime

For IC vs OOC time, I'd recommend using the code I wrote for DarkSpires there.

QUIT
@va me=#230
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@wipe %va
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@name %va=Time Commands
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&conf_ic_ratio %va=1.5
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&conf_ooc_launch %va=Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 2013
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&conf_ic_launch %va=Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 2002
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&fn_offset %va=
  sub( 
    convtime( get( #230/conf_ooc_launch ), utc ), 
    convtime( get( #230/conf_ic_launch ), utc ))
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&gfn_ictimeof %va=
  add( 
    mul( 
      sub( %0, convtime( get( #230/conf_ooc_launch ), utc )),
      get( #230/conf_ic_ratio )),
    convtime( get( #230/conf_ic_launch ), utc ))
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&gfn_ooctimeof %va=
  add( 
    trunc( fdiget( #230/
      sub( %0, convtime( get( #230/conf_ic_launch ), utc )),
      get( #230/conf_ic_ratio ))),
    convtime( get( #230/conf_ooc_launch ), utc ))
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&gfn_icsecs %va=ictimeof( secs() )
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&cmd_time %va=$+time:
@pemit %#=
  strcat( 
    header( +time )%r, 
    OOC Time:%b, convsecs( secs(), utc ) UTC.%r,
    %bIC Time:%b, convsecs( icsecs(), utc ) UTC.%r,
    %rEventually cool moon and weather stuff will go here.%r,
    %rRemember that this game runs on loose-IC time%;%b,
    feel free to RP with an IC time-setting near the IC time listed above.%r,
    footer())
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isstaff() et all

These should probably change into a more general purpose group membership test system, but in the absence of consensus, isstaff() is a pretty good simple answer. Given more time/energy/giveadamn, I'd recommend something like

hasrole( dbref, rolename )

were rolename might be staff, etc.

header() ...

I regret the existence of wheader() as a separate things. Most newer games using my base code just have header() and it is wide. That looks bad with certain older crufty mushcode. It might be good to have a more general api for visual-form construction, but header/divider/footer is the basic minimum.

msg() ...

Yes.

titlestr()

I know you're proud of how very clever it is, but... is it really used that much?

lmax/lmin()

Brazil added hardcode for these in the 2.12 tree in January. Otherwise yes.

isic()

Hmmmmmm. I want to say that a more general concept of "situational context" should be articulated here, but isic is reasonable.

shortdesc()

is an approach to permissions. Really it should just be @attribute short-desc=visual or something, but people never seem to remember that.

vcolumns()/vtable()

Yeah.

crumple()

Never heard of it, but sounds handy.

plural()

Only if it is per-object overridable, like MOOs tend to do.

say()

Yes!

lpmatch()

How is this different than iter( ...,pmatch(%i0))?

width()

Hrm. Yeah, I guess. Might be wise to call it uwidth() or the like. Along these lines it might also be good to have header/divider/footer take an optional width argument, so that they can be used in the construction of more complex form combinators.

Thenomain

@Chime said:

header() ...
I regret the existence of wheader() as a separate things.

And so, my header is really:

header( <text>[, <width>] )

And:

wheader( <text>) -> header( <text>, width( %# ))

TAH-DAH!

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