ok, so there is a lag on mudlet. Someone was trying to instruct me on using GA (go ahead) in the prompt to make it run faster in mudlet.

I was told to use %c and GA as the value at the end of my prompt... Well, I did this but now I just get a diamond with a question mark displaying in my prompt.

Does anyone know what he is talking about and maybe provide a short snip?

ok.. not sure if this is the best way to do this, but this little patch seemed to work...


in comm.c in display_prompt:

I changed this:

            if( pstat != 0x80000000 )
               snprintf( pbuf, MAX_STRING_LENGTH - strlen (buf), "%u", pstat );
            pbuf += strlen( pbuf );
            break;
      }
   }
   *pbuf = '\0';
   send_to_char( buf, ch );
   return;
}

to this:

            if( pstat != 0x80000000 )
               snprintf( pbuf, MAX_STRING_LENGTH - strlen (buf), "%u", pstat );
            pbuf += strlen( pbuf );
            break;
      }
   }
   *pbuf = '\0';
   send_to_char( buf, ch );
   write_to_buffer( d, (const char *)go_ahead_str, 0 );
   return;
}

if anyone has a better way let me know, but this is definitely making mudlet run 10x faster


edit: I found that this causes the create character sequence to not respond right... putting ---->

 write_to_buffer( d, (const char *)go_ahead_str, 0 ); 

after each "write_to_buffer" call in the sequence fixes that. Once in-game, there are no issues

my best guess is because there is no prompt at this point

I probably wouldn't change my output because of 1 mud client's issue. I guess if you have Kavir's MSDP and can detect mudlet being used you can do an ifcheck to do something different, but seems like mudlet should fix their lag issue.

I have spoken with Vadi who says it's not their issue, it's the mud's issue.. I never had any speed issues with gmud, zmud, or any other client....

but since mudlet is widely used, I supposed i needed to optimize for it. Still working out some kinks, such as the writing buffer not returning the ">" for each line...

I am thinking of simply flagging the person AFK while writing and ifchecking the afk flag for the GA