I was thinking bout like a command, so that you can clear the history of channels. Any channel you want.
Like clear "tells" would remove all thats been said, all. giving you a nice, empty history buffer again..

Just a idea

ToadVile said:

I was thinking bout like a command, so that you can clear the history of channels. Any channel you want.
Like clear "tells" would remove all thats been said, all. giving you a nice, empty history buffer again..

Just a idea

I realize that this is an old post but it got me thinking, so I whipped up a short function to do just what was suggested.

Not sure if it's allowed so Samson feel free to remove the code if you don't want it posted. It was just easy and I wanted it for my mud and thought I'd share.

void do_clearhist ( CHAR_DATA *ch, char *argument )
{
    MUD_CHANNEL *channel;
    int loopa;

    if ( !argument || argument[0] == '\0' )
    {
        send_to_char( "&GSyntax: clearhist <name>\n\r", ch );
        return;
    }

    if ( !(channel = find_channel( argument ) ) )
    {
        send_to_char( "&RNo channel with that name exists.\n\r", ch );
        return;
    }

    for( loopa = 0; loopa < MAX_CHANHISTORY; loopa++ )
    {
        if ( channel->history[loopa][0] )
            DISPOSE( channel->history[loopa][0] );
        if ( channel->history[loopa][1] )
            DISPOSE( channel->history[loopa][1] );
    }
    ch_printf( ch, "History for channel %s cleared.\n\r", channel->name );
    return;
}

-Moridian

    for( loopa = 0; loopa < MAX_CHANHISTORY; loopa++ )
    {
        if ( channel->history[loopa][0] )
            DISPOSE( channel->history[loopa][0] );
        if ( channel->history[loopa][1] )
            DISPOSE( channel->history[loopa][1] );
    }

IIRC DISPOSE checks for NULL so you can remove the ifchecks.

We added this in the code for send_tochannel because I was lazy and didn't feel like adding a new command. If you want to use this, it's up to you to backport the C++

   if( !argument || argument[0] == '\0' || !str_cmp( argument, "hpurge" ) )
   {
      if( !channel->flags.test( CHAN_KEEPHISTORY ) )
      {
         ch->printf( "%s what?\r\n", capitalize( channel->name ) );
         return;
      }

      if( !str_cmp( argument, "hpurge" ) )
      {
         for( int x = 0; x < MAX_CHANHISTORY; ++x )
         {
            DISPOSE( channel->history[x][0] );
            DISPOSE( channel->history[x][1] );
         }
         ch->printf( "The %s channel history has been purged.\r\n", channel->name );
         return;
      }
      show_channel_history( ch, channel );
      return;
   }