Note  60  Mathias      (03/29/10 13:13)  MXP Support

Hello Ardans!
 
The Two Towers has begun to offer server-side MXP support -
the MUD eXtension Protocol.
 
What does MXP mean for you?
The Two Towers MUD supports a subset of the protocol, which allows
us to do the following:
 - the MUD output can be now displayed with all range of HTML 
   colors, rather than being limited to ANSI's 16 colors.
   Zmud and Cmud can also change font face and font size.
   Use the "color" command to change any message class to use any
   color/font you want!
 - Some handy hyperlinks are provided for parts of the MUD
   output, for those who perfer to play games with mouse rather
   than keyboard.  These include:
    - door exits - clicking on the exit links will move you around.
      This includes "go" for land exits, "swim" for water exits
      and "launch" / "land" for when you are in a boat.  Right-clicking
      on an exit link will also allow you to "look" through that exit.
    - objects - objects listed in room's contents will appear
      as hyperlinks; right-clicking on the link brings up a
      popup menu for some command shortcuts.  The popup menu
      is different for different types of objects (NPCs, locked
      chests, items, etc.).
      This category also includes links on travelto destinations
      within signpost descriptions.
    - doors - A popup menu is available on hyperlink for each 
      door listed in room's detailed description, allowing you
      to quickly manipulate it.
    - board posts - When you look at a board (or at a gossiper NPC),
      each post will be a hyperlink so that you can read it with a 
      single click.
 - HP and EP graphical gauges are available in Zmud and Cmud. They
   usually appear above the main MUD window.
 
As a note, MXP support is still a work in progress and because it
is an open standard, some features may appear differently between
different clients (and even different versions of the same client!).
 
For those of you who don't wish to utilize MXP, you may disable it
entirely with 'set mxp off'.  Otherwise, there is a new MXP Settings
menu in the 'settings' command which will allow you to selectively
turn off certain features.
 
For more information, see 'help mxp' and 'help settings'