wxDuris Alpha Version 1
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wxDuris is a client for Duris MUD. If you don't know what Duris MUD is, visit www.durismud.com to find out. To summarize briefly:
Duris is by far the best text-based Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) on the internet.
wxDuris is meant to be a 2-D graphical Duris client. It processes prompts into meters displaying health and moves along with populating status indicators. It will also show graphics tiles for the world map and map images for known zones.
This is an alpha version of wxDuris. It is very likely to contain bugs, problems, and inconvenient quirks. You can help by reporting any observations to jchampion (at) zetacentauri.com or visiting http://www.zetacentauri.com/board and posting on the forum (which requires registration). In the case of a bug, the most helpful thing you can do when reporting it is tell us how to reproduce it reliably.
wxDuris is freeware. This version only runs on Windows, but a we are also working on a Linux version (it builds and runs, but we have some quirks related to OS differences to work out). A MacOS version may also be made available in the future. The cool thing about the wxWidgets and SDL libraries that this application is based on is that they are cross-platform.
To connect to Duris, select File->Connect. Once connected, type "tog term" in order to switch from ANSI to MSP terminal mode. This will cause Duris to send the extra data needed by wxDuris. If you are not in MSP mode, you will see everything as if you were using a regular terminal program.
wxDuris supports basic aliases.
It does not support the inclusion of variables within aliases. An alias
can be created by typing:
#alias <keyword> <expansion>
For instance, to create an alias to cast the Magic Missile spell every time you type "mag", you would enter:
#alias mag cast 'magic missile'
After this, every time you type mag, the phrase "cast 'magic missile'" will be sent to Duris.
In order to save your aliases, select File->Save Aliases. These aliases can later be loaded by choosing File->Load Aliases
By selecting View->Settings you can make changes to font, logging, color, and parsing.
By selecting View->Group you will be able to see the group window, which displays information about characters in your party. If you are not grouped this window will contain no information.
Updates:
2-4-2007:
Added the ability to use semicolons in input and aliases to separate multiple
commands (Vesion 1 Alpha 2).
1-13-2007: Initial release (Version 1 Alpha 1).
Known problems and bugs to be resolved in future releases:
1. Does not support changing
background color for text.
2. Cannot tell difference between few scratches and few wounds on status
display.
3. Cannot differentiate mobs and mountains on map.
4. Get garbage characters in certain places because we don't process compression
tags (i.e. login screen).
Features we expect to add in future releases:
1. Life and movement
meters for group window.
2. MCCP (compression to save bandwidth).
3. Super-Awesome (tm) logging.
Features we may or may not add anytime soon:
1. Actions. (like the tintin
#action command)
2. Variable substitution for aliases.
3. More and/or better maps (this will depend upon whether anyone gives
us maps to add).