Displaying tabled data from event handlers

Zypher · May 2020

I have a simple question, I'm wanting to display data using gmcp event handlers. There is a lot more to how the mudlet client handles the gmcp data. To explain, what I want to know is how can I store the gmcp tables in my created table each time it's sent from the server?

Here is an example of a table

{
  {
    {
      id = "330116",
      attrib = "t",
      name = "a spiny dogfish",
      icon = "seacreature"
    }
  }
}

My thought is to create a for loop as shown below

--an empty and nil table
myTable = {}
--Im checking for only items in the room with an if statement just before the for loop
itemsInRoom = gmcp.Char.Items.List.items
for k, v in ipairs (itemsInRoom) do
  table.insert(myTable,itemsInRoom)
end --for
--Where I would display the name and id to the Geyser.Label 
 end --if

This is a crude example of lua code

Naruj · May 2020

I tried to pastebin some code, but it's.. long.

Basically, the table has a 'location' key, to tell you where the thing is. 'Room' is things in the room with you, clearly.

Those things also have keys, the 'attrib' flag you listed above. Anything 'm' is a mob, unless it also has 'd' and then it's a corpse. The "gmcp.Char.Items.List" event is sent whenever you move or look, so you can use it to clear your table and start over. For the rest of the events, you're just getting changes to your existing table.

Zypher · May 2020

Thanks for the information I never thought of clearing the table and starting over.

Displaying tabled data from event handlers

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