While there are many uses for an EMCO, the most requested one is by far tabbed chat display. This package takes the EMCO object available as part of the MDK and builds a basic, generic chat tabs package out of it.
It's built using an adjustable container, so it can be moved, resized, etc right out of the box. There are range of aliases with the package which make adding/removing tabs and changing some of the basic themes of the EMCO easier.
You can leverage the entire EMCO API by targeting demonnic.chat , as that is the actual underlying EMCO object.
You can use the following command in Mudlet to install the latest version:
lua installPackage("https://github.com/demonnic/EMCO/releases/latest/download/EMCOChat.mpackage")
Once you have it installed you can update by using the emco update alias.
If you want to copy a line from the game and send it to EMCO, make a trigger to match the line, and use demonnic.chat:append("tabName") to copy the line to the EMCO. For instance, to send a line to the "Tells" tab, you would use
demonnic.chat:append("Tells")If you want to send lines to the EMCO in code yourself, you can use demonnic.chat:cecho("OOC", "This is an OOC message\n"). There is also decho and hecho available the same way.
emco addtab <tabname>- adds a tab to your EMCO
emco blankLine <true|false>- turn inserting a blank line between messages on/off
emco blink <true|false>- turn blinking on/off
emco color <option> <value>- used to change the colors for the active/inactive tab, and the background color for the consoles. 'emco color' with no options will print out available options
emco font- set the font to use for the consoles
emco fontSize- set the font size for the consoles
emco gag <pattern>- add a gag pattern
emco gaglist- prints out the list of gag patterns
emco hide- hide the EMCO
emco load- loads your config from disk
emco lock- locks the EMCO in place
emco notify <tabName>- turn on OS notifications for tabName
emco remtab <tabname>- removes a tab from your EMCO
emco save- saves your config to disk
emco show- show the EMCO
emco timestamp <true|false>- turn timestamps on/off
emco title <new title>- Set the title at the top of the EMCO Chat window. "Tabbed Chat" is the default starting title.
emco unlock- Unlocks the EMCO window so you can move and resize it again
emco ungag <pattern>- remove a gag pattern
emco unnotify <tabName>- turn off OS notifications for tabName
emco update- (re)install the latest version of the package