Events window has disappeared Options

[Kaleisha]

Ok, I've just learnt to live with the ongoing random crashings. on average around 4 or 5 in an 8 hour day I've taken to saving things alot more frequently so I don't lose stuff. I begn to notice that one of the instances that causes a crash is when a newbie creates.. I'm still not sure why or how, but I can recall at least 5 times in the last few months when I have crashed and returned to find a newbie in the world. Now for some background, I did set triggers up to watch and check family status of all newbies as they enterred the world. I'm not actually seeing the text that would fire that triggered before I crash but I was wondering if it was perhaps firing from the information the mud was sending and I was crashing before i even saw it? I have no idea how that all works but I'm just trying to make sense of what could just be a very weird coinciddence.

So anyway I decided to check on my triggers and open up my events window GAH! I cannot find it?? The mud window dims to light grey as it does when it is a background window, but I'm not seeing anny evennts window anywhere. I tried dragging things around clearing desktop completely hitting f keys and even looking under the rug (ok joking about the rug) and the window is gone! I've quit everything else, restarted, quit savitar restarted.... no events window to be found anywhere. So now I'm kind of confused about what to try next

[jay]

[Kaleisha and I shared some emails on this subject and here's the solution to the crash Kaleisha was seeing]

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Okay I figured out the crash. Savitar is not gracefully handling the unnamed variables in your trigger. It should generate a warning, but instead barfs. Will fix that in next release. In the meanwhile, edit your trigger to have a named variable.

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Remember, using a wildcard without a variable name after it indicates the wildcard doesn't set a variable. That is to say, doing: "The rain falls mainly on the $$" for a match string will match on anything in the $$ position, but you won't be able to use that as a variable (like replying with "say It's raining on the %%!". Instead, you will have to do a match string like "The rain falls mainly on the $$area" and then you could do a reply string of "say It's raining on the %%area!". Dig?

/Jay