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Resilio-Sync-Without-A-Screen-Reader

2023-01-12T20:50:00Z

Valiant8086: moved all the extra tidbits to be next to each other and formed them into a section of their own on the toc. Fixed some spelling errors, gave the controlling folders section a link to the screen reader shortcuts for mouse hovering

=Introduction=

After switching to Resilio Sync from the older Bit Torrent Sync, screen reader users are sometimes having difficulties making the switch and continue running the old version. BT Sync does still work even when connected to instances of Resilio Sync, but it does have some issues that can cause lots of extra internet traffic in some somewhat obscure situations. Still, for basic use, BT Sync is probably good enough. Resilio Sync is very stable however, and has gotten about as close to set it and forget it that any file collaboration platform I've any experience with has managed to do.

If you sync multiple folders, have people sharing with you who have Resilio Sync instead, want extra features like selective sync and account id's that come as part of the paid account, then you're looking at Resilio Sync as the old BT Sync can't do much of that. It's more efficient on resources and internet traffic, faster to move content and has more features. The downside is that Resilio's interface does not work with a screen reader. Not to dispare just yet, Resilio has a solution to the problem. The Web UI works fairly well with screen readers. Even the normal installation of Resilio is actually capable of being managed via the Web UI, but we'll focus on installing Resilio as a service, whereapon the only method to configure it is the web UI.

=Download=
Downloading Resilio isn't the simplest. Resilio has grown and is now sporting a variety of options catering to companies needing to keep data managed among many employees in a scalable fassion, but they haven't forgot about the normal end users quite yet. At the time of writing you can get it from
https://www.resilio.com/individuals/

I went there and at this time the price is $59 one-time for a pro license, going up from there for family and onto a subscription plan for around $35 monthly. However Resilio is perfectly usable for huge amounts of data with the free version. I found a link on the above page to download Sync Home. That immediately downloaded it with no extra fuss. I note that Resiliio rarely updates, just a couple of times in the last 3 or 4 years. When it does have an update, by default the web UI will mention it at the top of the page. By the way, while Resilio is fairly cross platform, I'm focusing on Windows.

=Installing=
Installing Resilio is not too complicated although eventually setting it up is most of the reason writing this article has merit. Run the downloaded .exe file. It'll have a load of checkboxes. We can choose whether it starts with Windows, adds firewall exception to Windows firewall, etc. The important one I always change (the only one I change) is the "install sync as a service" option. Enabling this will do what it sounds like, install it as a non-interactive background service. Accessing it will be done via a web interface. Those of you familiar with Sync Thing might feel familiar with this idea. Ditto Own Cloud. So we checked this install as service option and continue on. During the install we get a prompt for a username and password. This is configuring how the service is logged in, as in which account is it ran under. You technically can put your account's username and password here, and you should do that if you have multiple accounts on the computer, and you want separate Resilio installs for them. I have not actually tried this so can't tell if it actually works. For me, I always install as system, just type system as the username and leave the password blank. This is going to allow Resilio to run even if nobody is actually logged into the computer. It'll start at boot before you log into a user account for the first time. Once we hit ok here it should finish the install and open a web browser since we have installed it as a service and thus a web browser is required in order to actually set it up.

Setting up is a bit messy to be honest, but it's not impossible to do from a screen reader user's point of view. You first land on a username and password prompt. As a webpage, you should be able to arrow up and down and examine the forms but tabbing and shift+tabbing works here if that doesn't or you prefer it. This user and password pair is for the web admin. You can require a username and password pair to be entered into the browser before you'd be able to view the UI. If you do this, you'll be prompted in a dialogue box for that info when you attempt to navigate to the Resilio UI. Autofilling passwords does work in some browsers and generally will just fill out the fields when you get the prompt but you still have to ok it. By default, Resilio is bound to internal localhost only, meaning other machines, even on the same network, should not be able to access the UI even if the port isn't firewalled out for it. That being the case, if you aren't too concerned about keeping the UI secure to people able to access the computer, or you can bypass login prompt altogether for most browsers by specifying "admin" as the username and leaving the passwords empty. I'm not sure why this is a bad thing as the normal installed version of Resilio would certainly let you view the interface with a simple click on the desktop icon or the tray item. However, if you would rather be able to access the UI from other machines, then I do think a password is critical. You can change it later in settings easily if needed. Once we have the web login pair typed in there should be an ok button of some sort.

==Creating sync identity==
Next we are prompted for the name of the sync identity. However this prompt is the biggest hiccup as the whole page generally won't render at all with any screen reader's virtual cursor or similar in nearly any browser. The solution is to turn it off by using insert+space or caps lock+space (NVDA, insert+z or caps lock+z (JAWS). It may also work to focus the edit field and then attempt to tab from it. We do need to tab here as there are two checkboxes as per the license agreement and a declaration that you're using this sync home edition for home use. Tab and listen carefully as the checkboxes have a lot to say before your screen reader might inform you that it's a checkbox. The first one is just two presses of tab from the edit box and the other one is 6 or so from it. They both have to be checked. Then shift+tab back to the edit box and give a desired id name. This is not able to be changed but it's also not used particularly often in a user visible way. Just put something short and call it a day. By default it probably will suggest the name under with the service has been installed, which if you follow my suggestions is "system". Once you're done tab once from the edit box and choose the continue button or equivilent. This button cannot be focused unless you successfully checked both of the check boxes.

==Last step! newsletter==
Next, you can use the virtual cursor again, so insert+space or caps lock+space with NVDA to turn browse mode back on (if not already done automatically) or insert+z or caps lock+z to turn virtual pc cursor back on in JUAWS if not already done automatically. Arrowing up and down in here we do have an email prompt for a newsletter. You can spoof it with something that's meaningless if you want to. I always put my actual address in and it never actually has sent me anything and I've been using it for many years. From what I can tell, you have to do this in order to use it unfortunately.

=general screen layout=
Once you've done that, you land on the folders page generally. If not, there's a folders button near the top of the page that will put it into this view.

==Folders View==
Folders displays all the sync folders Resilio is managing. As we arrow down from the top, we eventually get to an interesting section that says something like all, connected, disconnected. These are actually items you can press space on and they control whether the soon to be discussed table shows all folders, only connected ones or only disconnected ones. By default it shows all. This is more useful if you have Sync Pro and have anywhere near as many disconnected folders as I do that don't mean anything the majority of the time and just make it harder to navigate among the actual working connected ones. It's probably super obvious now, but I would hit the connected option and thereby filter out all the dozens of disconnected folders from the table.

===Columns Table===
It actually weirdly uses two tables to do this. The first table just has one row and is the headers for the columns actually displayed in the second table. Name, status, peers online, etc. You can customize these some. The most obvious thing is to press the space bar on one to sort the folders by that column, and doing so again will invert the sorting. You can emulate a click on a column to get a load of checkboxes at the bottom of the page whereby you can choose which columns to display, including many that are not already on by default. If you have the check boxes up, you can be rid of them by reloading the page, usually pressing f5 will do the trick.

===Folders Table===
Below this columns table is another table. It displays every folder that you have added. Depending whether this is a paid account, this can mean different things. For paid users, once you have added folders, any instance of Resilio will show all folders associated with that account or id. You can add all the folders to new installations of Resilio on other devices to gain them access to all folders in one swoop. You do this by linking the new installation to your existing id by sharing the fingerprint, more on that later.

===Status Line===
At the very bottom of the page when in most views, especially folders view, a status line shows in total how fast you're downloading and uploading just now.

=Adding A New Folder=
Right now, we have no folders having just installed it. Let's talk about the basic ways to start adding folders. This is kind of a rich interface with many options, but in my mind, the basic folder is just a folder with either read only access or read and write access that is shared using a link or a secret "key". For reference, let's note that the key is litterally the identity of the folder. It is how each device can find the folder. Every folder gets a unique key. The key is not the name of the folder, but the name of the folder is loosely associated with the key. Think key is my home address combined with my social security number. My name is well, my name. I could rename myself but my ssn would probably stay the same. In resilio the key is the only way folders are recognized for what they are. You can share me a key to one of your folders and I can use that at any time to gain access to your folder. Not all types of folders work this way, but the one I'm covering here is just the key alone.

If I want a new folder that would come with a new key, I can use the dropdown menu button at the top of the page and go down to standard folder. It will then go to the choose a folder page. It features an edit box for the path to this folder and some controls for browsing your filesystem. I never use these. Instead I manually browse the computer in file explorer to where I will place this folder, create the folder if it is a new one in file explorer as normal, go inside of it and then use alt+d to visit the address bar within file explorer and then ctrl+c to copy the full path to the current folder. Then I go back over to Resilio and paste into that edit box using ctrl+v keystroke. While you certainly can browse using the web UI, it honestly seems easier as a screen reader user to do it the other way.

Once the path is displayed, we move down to the open button and hit that. I'm not interested in making a new key right now, but presumably it generates the key on the fly at this point and you land in the folders page. You can examine the table to confirm the new folder is displayed. If it isn't an empty folder, the second column may inform you the folder is indexing. You may want to use the column check boxes I described above to turn on some other columns like for instance the remote size and size ones. This would let you readily examine the total known size of the folder as understood by all other devices with access to it, and additionally the size as stored locally on your machine. This can also be accomplished as a file count both remotely and locally. These numbers allow you to immediately know if you are up to date with your instance of Resilio's understanding of the total size of the folder. If it is a large folder, the remote size or remote count will be climbing as handshakes among all available peers and indexing allows your instance of Resilio to learn about all the content in the folder. At some point, you would probably have a constant, unchanging remote size but your local size would be smaller than that and climbing only if you download content.

=Joining An Existing Folder=
While making new folders is important, it's probably also going to come up that someone has given you a key or a link to a folder with the expectation that you can join in and download and possibly collaborate with them. The key is a long series of numbers. Have this number on the clipboard and open the Resilio interface. We do have multiple ways to do this next part. The normal way might be to use the dropdown menu at the top. press Space on this and then use heading navigation or just arrow to the "enter a key or link" option. It's a button, hit space on this. We should land in the "manual connection" dialogue. It has an edit box requesting your key or link. Either option works. Paste your key or your link here. A next button just below the edit box does what it sounds like, but if you have a paid license, you have the selective sync option just below that. Selective sync allows placeholder files that are 0 bytes in size to represent the content of the folder. You can see it but if you want it you have to download it on-demand. The placeholders have a .rsls extension. If you are joining a big folder you just want to be able to grab certain things out of, or just view and/or manipulate/organize content in without needing it to be taking up local disk space, you'd want to experiment with this. There is a checkbox here for on and one that is for off. They're labled correctly but pressing them doesn't change anything from the screen reader perspective. It seems that selective sync will be disabled as default, meaning the entire folder will download. If you want selective sync to be on, press the space bar on the check box that says on and then we just have to have faith that it worked because there is no confirmation. We then choose the next button.

Now we are right back in the "choose a folder" page exactly as demonstrated above. I recommend again going to file explorer as you would normally browse your computer's filesystem, creating the folder if not already created, and going to the address bar while already inside the folder and use ctrl+c keystroke to copy it. Go back to Resilio and paste (ctrl+v) the address into that edit field.. Now we can tab or arrow to the ok button at the bottom and activate it.

In theory, you have now joined this folder. Use the folders button at the top of the page to go to the folders view if not already, and then examine the table to see if the folder is syncing or what. Refer to brief discussion above on the columns and some of the useful info they can provide. Note that any folders that have selective sync actually proclaim "selective sync off" before the folder name according to your screen reader, at time of writing. Folders that do not have selective sync on just don't mention anything about it.

=Controlling Existing Folders=
If you have the checkboxes open, use f5 to go back to the normal view. If you're not on the folders view, use the folders button at the top to go to it. Now let's talk about controlling the folders. If you have a pro account especially, you'll have all the folders linked to your identity displayed by default, even if they aren't connected. I did mention above how to change this. But the important thing I'm trying to get across here is that when you introduce a new instalation of Resilio to your pro identity the folders are displaying, but they are not linked, at least not usually and definitely not according to my recommendation. That said, in order to download a folder onto this new computer, you'd have to link it with a local folder for it to download into. Interestingly enough, this is not a particularly nice portion of the Resilio Sync web UI. We have to emulate a mouse hover over the folder name which causes a couple of buttons to appear on the far right of the table. These are different depending on the folder's situation e.g. if it's not connected, one of the buttons is connect.
[[#mousehover|Review here how to perform mouse hover with NVDA or JAWS screen reader]]

Now that you hopefully did a successful hover over the folder name, Navigate right across the table, usually ctrl+alt+right arrow will do the trick, until you hopefully find the buttons that resulted. You may also be able to press b to get to it although beware that it could be the buttons are appearing for a different folder so you may want to arrow around to check which row they're on. You can press space on the connect button. It will place you on the edit box where you need to paste the path to the folder. See above for tips on that. Note that you again have the option to make this a selective sync folder, and the same rules apply as discussed above. If you are reconnecting an existing folder, Resilio will then ask you if you intend to merge your local folder against the content of the folder on all other devices. Beware that if your folder is significantly out of date, you may cause problems by doing this and perhaps would rather delete your local folder and create it and then point Resilio at it while empty to get it to just download everything fresh. Note that sometimes these prompts are recognized as dialogues and may not get screen reader focus. In general, if this happens the dialogue will be at the very bottom of the page. You may be able to press enter on the dialogue to gain access to the controls in it or perhaps just pressing the tab key.

Disconnecting a folder is similar to above. navigate to the folder's name and move your mouse pointer to it. Now attempt to find the disconnect button. (Warning: if you are already disconnected, this is a remove button and that will clear the folder from all devices on your Sync Pro Identity, even other machines that had it downloaded and all synced up will disconnect and lose the key to sync it). Note also, disconnecting a folder does not delete it from disk, it only stops synchronizing it with other devices having been associated with that key.

The peers column, by default third one over, is generally a link that might say something like 1 of 1. This is telling you how many peers are available right now out of how many total seen in recent time of a few days. It's a link, hitting plain old space on that will bring up a peers page showing every peer in the folder. If it's not obvious, we mean every device that has this folder linked, be that with selective sync on or not. The device name is given and any information about the state of sync. Note that selective sync machines that don't have the whole folder downloaded always show as needing x number of files sent to them for probably obvious reasons. You can hit space on the name of a device and then go to the very bottom of the page to find out how many files along with the total size needs to be synced to or from that device. You can press escape a few times to get out of this.

Resilio has many settings. The global settings are available by pressing the options button which is found quickly if you arrow down from the top, but ctrl+, (comma) will do the trick as well. Navigating down the page after opening settings (options) will eventually find a bunch of tabs that may not call themselves as much. (General, identity, advanced, web UI, license). You can press space on these and that will change the content below to completely different screens of options. General might be useful to change the default sync folder location or check for updates. Identity is how you can introduce other Resilio installations with your Sync Pro identity. Advanced allows to do some connection settings including bandwidth limitations, and also has a power user preferences link that when activated loads up a whole new world of configurability that's somewhat into the "mess with it if you dare" category. Web UI lets you change your web UI's username and password pair, and the default port it uses as well as whether to allow incoming connections from other computers. That last one is handy if this is a server and or someone else's computer you need to be able to help with, but it does require that the port be opened (forwarded etc) if you will access it from outside of your Local Area Network. License is how you start the process of buying Sync Pro or activating a Resilio Sync installation to be part of your Sync Pro identity. Note that the last time I activated my Sync Pro identity I had to use the in-page browser to select the .btskey file as coppying the path to it wouldn't work for some reason.

=Some Extra notes - general tidbits and tricks=
==You Don't Have to Keep Resilio Opened On-Screen==
This is probably super obvious, but Resilio doesn't need the web UI open to function once it's set up. You can happily close out the browser and it'll do the syncing thing in the background. It's also super good at resuming where it left off. There's no concern if you lose internet, your battery dies, or you otherwise interrupt transfers. It'll pick up where it left off whenever it is able.

==You Can Put Folders Pretty Much Anywhere==
One concept it's probably good to have is that you can just put synced folders willie-Nillie. This does give better flexibility than many of the cloud file sharing and collaborating services offer. I personally sync my music folder right in the music folder on my user account for instance. You can sync a part of a synced folder using a different key in theory to for instance let someone else have access to just a subfolder only of such a folder that is already otherwise synced with yet other people, but last time I tried it, it actually caused weird problems that I couldn't quantify, so perhaps do it at your own risk only.

Resilio will let you put synced folders on your network, sd card, flash drive, ssd, internal or external, mapped network drives, folders stored in Dropbox and One Drive and such.

==Unplugging External Drives With Synced Folders on Them==
If it's an external drive that you can unplug and you do just that, Resilio will quietly let you know on the folders page that a folder cannot be found and in general will otherwise not give any headache about it. Although obviously any changes can't be synced to your drive until it's available again. In theory you can introduce changes to that folder with another computer that has the drive connected to it and when you give it back to Resilio it will sync those changes to the peers while also trying to sync any changes the peers made which you missed out on to this drive.

==Cross Syncing Folders that are Synced by Other Applications like Dropbox==
As I mentioned above, Resilio can let you point it at a folder that is otherwise synced with another program like One Drive, Sync Thing etc. This allows for what I'd call Cross Syncing. Say I have Resilio and I drop something in my sync folder. Your Resilio downloads it into Dropbox. Dropbox then sees that you put a new file in it, and then uploads that file to Dropbox. Now, person 3 because that's really their name puts something else in that same folder on Dropbox. Dropbox downloads it, Resilio notices the new file and transmits it to me whenever I am online to get it. I have used this extensively with One Drive folders am actually unsure of scenarios where it just plain won't work properly e.g. does it actually work right with Dropbox? No idea. I do want to point out that Sync-On-Demand (One Drive) and Smart Sync (Dropbox) in conjunction with cross-syncing via Resilio sounds like a very, very bad idea. Also, don't let two or more instances of the same Resilio folder on different devices cross sync that same folder to the same cloud location that would already sync to both locations. For instance, say we both have a music folder in One Drive. We also have a music folder in Resilio. We both point Resilio at our music folder in One Drive. Not only is that pointless because One Drive is already syncing that for us thank you very much, but it has the potential to break things super bad because both Resilio and One Drive will be attempting to move the same files simultaneously and we'll have conflicts. When the conflict files get created by Resilio, One Drive will sync the conflicts too, which will probably make Resilio cry. Meanwhile One Drive will probably be notifying you in its main interface about conflicted conflict files and what ever other lovely things. With One Drive specifically however, pointing one specific instance of Resilio at a One Drive folder has made it so that people accessing that folder via other instances of Resilio have no trouble as long as they don't try to point it at their own One Drive folder too, and people accessing it on One Drive don't know anything different. However, it might not have been too obvious, but there's nothing wrong with using Resilio to cross-sync two different other cloud services e.g. your music folder that Resilio is pointed at is in your One Drive. I pointed at my music in my Dropbox. Weird perhaps, but Resilio is happy to please. It would also work just fine with cross syncing into a one drive folder on both ends provided it is not the same folder, even if it would be alright doing so with the same account, although that is most likely rather redundant.

==Understanding a Little more About Selective Sync==
The selective Sync option, available with Sync Pro accounts, has two important factors.
#Files not downloaded are displayed using 0 byte placeholder files as representations of them. These representation files have a .rsls extension.
*You can hit enter on an .rsls placeholder to download it although that's a little hit and miss.
*Deleting an .rsls placeholder will remove the content it represents from all peers.
*Moving or renaming .rsls placeholders will duplicate that action faithfully to the content it represents. If I move a .rsls placeholder to another place within the shared folder it will move the content it represents to that location on all peers.
*Coppying or cutting (moving) .rsls placeholders from within a sync folder out of it probably does not faithfully download the content it represents to the new location. In order to do that, you likely have to sync it into the sync folder and then copy or cut (move) the actual content out of the sync folder once it has fully downloaded.
*We can hit the context key or shift+f10 while focused on one in file explorer to get some extra options,
#sync to this device
#remove from this device
#remove from all devices (possibly)
You can do this on entire folder, subfolders of a synced folder, etc. For instance, the entire folder one could choose remove from this device after hitting shift+f10 while focused on the folder in file explorer (but don't open it) and that will delete all locally downloaded content from the folder and turn the files back into .rsls placeholders.

A few more notes about this:
*If you use One Drive and Sync-on-Demand, this is similar.
*Note that Sync-On-Demand does not work on certain filesystems mostly fat32. I can't remember if XFat works or not. I always format sd cards and external flash drives that I think I will want Resilio to sync things onto as NTFS and call it a day. This is just Sync-On-Demand mostly, it does actually sync to them just fine just you don't get full Sync-On-Demand functionality.
*Note that I do have the impression Resilio uses more CPU time and more internet for Sync-On-Demand folders. I'm yet to prove it.

==Folder Polling==
While Resilio supports filesystem watcher events so will know immediately when you change a local file and can sync it right away, it also polls the folders at regular intervals. By default this is every 600 seconds. You can change that in the power user section of the advanced settings I mentioned above. It is possible that an external drive or an internal one with power disable functionality that can spin down (obviously I'm talking about spinning hard drives haha) may spool up every time Resilio does the manual polling. This could make it desirable to slow this interval down a fair bit.

==Time Mismatch==
Note that Resilio won't like syncing on a device that has the current time out of whack. It can be radically different due to a different time zone and that will be fine. The UTC time is what we need to have correct. It'll generate some errors and may not sync in full or might otherwise cause weird conflicts.

==Resilio Web UI Shortcuts==
Some keyboard shortcuts I use often are:
*ctrl+u to get to the "add a key or link" dialogue
*ctrl+, (comma) to go to settings
*ctrl+/ (forward slash) to access a list of keyboard shortcuts.
*Note that escape will often times close something out and land you back on the main page.
*Finally, F5 is your friend in Resilio. If you can't get things to cooperate, f5 to refresh the page may help.

=Screen Reader Keystrokes=
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==Mouse Hover: as Needed on Folders View to Make Change Them==
It feels like the most important thing to get across here is the ability to move the mouse to the folder name as discussed before. The goal here is to hover the mouse pointer over top of the folder name to cause some options like disconnect or connect and options to appear next to the folder name.

*NVDA Generally caps lock+shift+m.
*JAWS: route JAWS to the virtual pc cursor and then switch back to the virtual pc cursor. Generally that would be caps lock+shift+[ (left bracket) and then caps lock ; (semi colon) for laptop users or insert+numpad - (minus) and then numpad++ (plus) for desktop users.

==Table Navigation==
Second most important is how to navigate the table. For JAWS users, having smart navigation on and/or screen layout mode enabled introduces a whole new and interesting can of worms but in general, for both screen readers, holding down the ctrl and alt keys and using the arrows lets you navigate the table structure of the folder view.
*Ctrl+alt+left will go left across the columns, to the far left being the name of the folder.
*Ctrl+alt+right goes back to the right again, and, if displayed, the far right will be the disconnect or connect button and the options button.
*Ctrl+alt+up and down arrow go up and down between the rows respectively.

For example, you can go to the far left to the folder names and then use ctrl+alt+down arrow to quickly scroll down the list of folders hearing their names and only their names as you go.

'''Note that JAWS also has this nifty alt+windows+up and down and left and right thing that reads the whole row or column as you go. For instance ctrl+alt+down would go down the table reading all the contents of the table's row (all of the columns) in one fell swoop each time you press it. Of course, you get that automagically with smart table navigation turned on in JAWS or just having JAWS set to use screen layout for web views. I'm feeling a little too lazy to laboriously document the whole procedure for enabling that, so if you wanna try it, it's your very own adventure.'''

Resilio-Sync-Without-A-Screen-Reader

2023-01-12T20:01:32Z

Valiant8086: first draft with many typos and poor grammer.

=Introduction=

After switching to Resilio Sync from the older Bit Torrent Sync, screen reader users are sometimes having difficulties making the switch and continue running the old version. BT Sync does still work even when connected to instances of Resilio Sync, but it does have some issues that can cause lots of extra internet traffic in some somewhat obscure situations. Still, for basic use, BT Sync is probably good enough. Resilio Sync is very stable however, and has gotten about as close to set it and forget it that any file collaboration platform I've any experience with has managed to do.

If you sync multiple folders, have people sharing with you who have Resilio Sync instead, want extra features like selective sync and account id's that come as part of the paid account, then you're looking at Resilio Sync as the old BT Sync can't do much of that. It's more efficient on resources and internet traffic, faster to move content and has more features. The downside is that Resilio's interface does not work with a screen reader. Not to dispare just yet, Resilio has a solution to the problem. The Web UI works fairly well with screen readers. Even the normal installation of Resilio is actually capable of being managed via the Web UI, but we'll focus on installing Resilio as a service, whereapon the only method to configure it is the web UI.

=Download=
Downloading Resilio isn't the simplest. Resilio has grown and is now sporting a variety of options catering to companies needing to keep data managed among many employees in a scalable fassion, but they haven't forgot about the normal end users quite yet. At the time of writing you can get it from
https://www.resilio.com/individuals/

I went there and at this time the price is $59 one-time for a pro license, going up from there for family and onto a subscription plan for around $35 monthly. However Resilio is perfectly usable for huge amounts of data with the free version. I found a link on the above page to download Sync Home. That immediately downloaded it with no extra fuss. I note that Resiliio rarely updates, just a couple of times in the last 3 or 4 years. When it does have an update, by default the web UI will mention it at the top of the page. By the way, while Resilio is fairly cross platform, I'm focusing on Windows.

=Installing=
Installing Resilio is not too complicated although eventually setting it up is most of the reason writing this article has merit. Run the downloaded .exe file. It'll have a load of checkboxes. We can choose whether it starts with Windows, adds firewall exception to Windows firewall, etc. The important one I always change (the only one I change) is the "install sync as a service" option. Enabling this will do what it sounds like, install it as a non-interactive background service. Accessing it will be done via a web interface. Those of you familiar with Sync Thing might feel familiar with this idea. Ditto Own Cloud. So we checked this install as service option and continue on. During the install we get a prompt for a username and password. This is configuring how the service is logged in, as in which account is it ran under. You technically can put your account's username and password here, and you should do that if you have multiple accounts on the computer, and you want separate Resilio installs for them. I have not actually tried this so can't tell if it actually works. For me, I always install as system, just type system as the username and leave the password blank. This is going to allow Resilio to run even if nobody is actually logged into the computer. It'll start at boot before you log into a user account for the first time. Once we hit ok here it should finish the install and open a web browser since we have installed it as a service and thus a web browser is required in order to actually set it up.

Setting up is a bit messy to be honest, but it's not impossible to do from a screen reader user's point of view. You first land on a username and password prompt. As a webpage, you should be able to arrow up and down and examine the forms but tabbing and shift+tabbing works here if that doesn't or you prefer it. This user and password pair is for the web admin. You can require a username and password pair to be entered into the browser before you'd be able to view the UI. If you do this, you'll be prompted in a dialogue box for that info when you attempt to navigate to the Resilio UI. Autofilling passwords does work in some browsers and generally will just fill out the fields when you get the prompt but you still have to ok it. By default, Resilio is bound to internal localhost only, meaning other machines, even on the same network, should not be able to access the UI even if the port isn't firewalled out for it. That being the case, if you aren't too concerned about keeping the UI secure to people able to access the computer, or you can bypass login prompt altogether for most browsers by specifying "admin" as the username and leaving the passwords empty. I'm not sure why this is a bad thing as the normal installed version of Resilio would certainly let you view the interface with a simple click on the desktop icon or the tray item. However, if you would rather be able to access the UI from other machines, then I do think a password is critical. You can change it later in settings easily if needed. Once we have the web login pair typed in there should be an ok button of some sort.

==Creating sync identity==
Next we are prompted for the name of the sync identity. However this prompt is the biggest hiccup as the whole page generally won't render at all with any screen reader's virtual cursor or similar in nearly any browser. The solution is to turn it off by using insert+space or caps lock+space (NVDA, insert+z or caps lock+z (JAWS). It may also work to focus the edit field and then attempt to tab from it. We do need to tab here as there are two checkboxes as per the license agreement and a declaration that you're using this sync home edition for home use. Tab and listen carefully as the checkboxes have a lot to say before your screen reader might inform you that it's a checkbox. The first one is just two presses of tab from the edit box and the other one is 6 or so from it. They both have to be checked. Then shift+tab back to the edit box and give a desired id name. This is not able to be changed but it's also not used particularly often in a user visible way. Just put something short and call it a day. By default it probably will suggest the name under with the service has been installed, which if you follow my suggestions is "system". Once you're done tab once from the edit box and choose the continue button or equivilent. This button cannot be focused unless you successfully checked both of the check boxes.

==Last step! newsletter==
Next, you can use the virtual cursor again, so insert+space or caps lock+space with NVDA to turn browse mode back on (if not already done automatically) or insert+z or caps lock+z to turn virtual pc cursor back on in JUAWS if not already done automatically. Arrowing up and down in here we do have an email prompt for a newsletter. You can spoof it with something that's meaningless if you want to. I always put my actual address in and it never actually has sent me anything and I've been using it for many years. From what I can tell, you have to do this in order to use it unfortunately.

=general screen layout=
Once you've done that, you land on the folders page generally. If not, there's a folders button near the top of the page that will put it into this view.

==Folders View==
Folders displays all the sync folders Resilio is managing. As we arrow down from the top, we eventually get to an interesting section that says something like all, connected, disconnected. These are actually items you can press space on and they control whether the soon to be discussed table shows all folders, only connected ones or only disconnected ones. By default it shows all. This is more useful if you have Sync Pro and have anywhere near as many disconnected folders as I do that don't mean anything the majority of the time and just make it harder to navigate among the actual working connected ones. It's probably super obvious now, but I would hit the connected option and thereby filter out all the dozens of disconnected folders from the table.

===Columns Table===
It actually weirdly uses two tables to do this. The first table just has one row and is the headers for the columns actually displayed in the second table. Name, status, peers online, etc. You can customize these some. The most obvious thing is to press the space bar on one to sort the folders by that column, and doing so again will invert the sorting. You can emulate a click on a column to get a load of checkboxes at the bottom of the page whereby you can choose which columns to display, including many that are not already on by default. If you have the check boxes up, you can be rid of them by reloading the page, usually pressing f5 will do the trick.

===Folders Table===
Below this columns table is another table. It displays every folder that you have added. Depending whether this is a paid account, this can mean different things. For paid users, once you have added folders, any instance of Resilio will show all folders associated with that account or id. You can add all the folders to new installations of Resilio on other devices to gain them access to all folders in one swoop. You do this by linking the new installation to your existing id by sharing the fingerprint, more on that later.

===Status Line===
At the very bottom of the page when in most views, especially folders view, a status line shows in total how fast you're downloading and uploading just now.

=Adding A New Folder=
Right now, we have no folders having just installed it. Let's talk about the basic ways to start adding folders. This is kind of a rich interface with many options, but in my mind, the basic folder is just a folder with either read only access or read and write access that is shared using a link or a secret "key". For reference, let's note that the key is litterally the identity of the folder. It is how each device can find the folder. Every folder gets a unique key. The key is not the name of the folder, but the name of the folder is loosely associated with the key. Think key is my home address combined with my social security number. My name is well, my name. I could rename myself but my ssn would probably stay the same. In resilio the key is the only way folders are recognized for what they are. You can share me a key to one of your folders and I can use that at any time to gain access to your folder. Not all types of folders work this way, but the one I'm covering here is just the key alone.

If I want a new folder that would come with a new key, I can use the dropdown menu button at the top of the page and go down to standard folder. It will then go to the choose a folder page. It features an edit box for the path to this folder and some controls for browsing your filesystem. I never use these. Instead I manually browse the computer in file explorer to where I will place this folder, create the folder if it is a new one in file explorer as normal, go inside of it and then use alt+d to visit the address bar within file explorer and then ctrl+c to copy the full path to the current folder. Then I go back over to Resilio and paste into that edit box using ctrl+v keystroke. While you certainly can browse using the web UI, it honestly seems easier as a screen reader user to do it the other way.

Once the path is displayed, we move down to the open button and hit that. I'm not interested in making a new key right now, but presumably it generates the key on the fly at this point and you land in the folders page. You can examine the table to confirm the new folder is displayed. If it isn't an empty folder, the second column may inform you the folder is indexing. You may want to use the column check boxes I described above to turn on some other columns like for instance the remote size and size ones. This would let you readily examine the total known size of the folder as understood by all other devices with access to it, and additionally the size as stored locally on your machine. This can also be accomplished as a file count both remotely and locally. These numbers allow you to immediately know if you are up to date with your instance of Resilio's understanding of the total size of the folder. If it is a large folder, the remote size or remote count will be climbing as handshakes among all available peers and indexing allows your instance of Resilio to learn about all the content in the folder. At some point, you would probably have a constant, unchanging remote size but your local size would be smaller than that and climbing only if you download content.

=Joining An Existing Folder=
While making new folders is important, it's probably also going to come up that someone has given you a key or a link to a folder with the expectation that you can join in and download and possibly collaborate with them. The key is a long series of numbers. Have this number on the clipboard and open the Resilio interface. We do have multiple ways to do this next part. The normal way might be to use the dropdown menu at the top. press Space on this and then use heading navigation or just arrow to the "enter a key or link" option. It's a button, hit space on this. We should land in the "manual connection" dialogue. It has an edit box requesting your key or link. Either option works. Paste your key or your link here. A next button just below the edit box does what it sounds like, but if you have a paid license, you have the selective sync option just below that. Selective sync allows placeholder files that are 0 bytes in size to represent the content of the folder. You can see it but if you want it you have to download it on-demand. The placeholders have a .rsls extension. If you are joining a big folder you just want to be able to grab certain things out of, or just view and/or manipulate/organize content in without needing it to be taking up local disk space, you'd want to experiment with this. There is a checkbox here for on and one that is for off. They're labled correctly but pressing them doesn't change anything from the screen reader perspective. It seems that selective sync will be disabled as default, meaning the entire folder will download. If you want selective sync to be on, press the space bar on the check box that says on and then we just have to have faith that it worked because there is no confirmation. We then choose the next button.

Now we are right back in the "choose a folder" page exactly as demonstrated above. I recommend again going to file explorer as you would normally browse your computer's filesystem, creating the folder if not already created, and going to the address bar while already inside the folder and use ctrl+c keystroke to copy it. Go back to Resilio and paste (ctrl+v) the address into that edit field.. Now we can tab or arrow to the ok button at the bottom and activate it.

In theory, you have now joined this folder. Use the folders button at the top of the page to go to the folders view if not already, and then examine the table to see if the folder is syncing or what. Refer to brief discussion above on the columns and some of the useful info they can provide. Note that any folders that have selective sync actually proclaim "selective sync off" before the folder name according to your screen reader, at time of writing. Folders that do not have selective sync on just don't mention anything about it.

=Controlling Existing Folders=
If you have the checkboxes open, use f5 to go back to the normal view. If you're not on the folders view, use the folders button at the top to go to it. Now let's talk about controlling the folders. If you have a pro account especially, you'll have all the folders linked to your identity displayed by default, even if they aren't connected. I did mention above how to change this. But the important thing I'm trying to get across here is that when you introduce a new instalation of Resilio to your pro identity the folders are displaying, but they are not linked, at least not usually and definitely not according to my recommendation. That said, in order to download a folder onto this new computer, you'd have to link it with a local folder for it to download into. Interestingly enough, this is not a particularly nice portion of the Resilio Sync web UI. We have to emulate a mouse hover over the folder name which causes a couple of buttons to appear on the far right of the table. These are different depending on the folder's situation e.g. if it's not connected, one of the buttons is connect.

To emulate a mouse hover, generally with NVDA you arrow to the name of the folder and then you press caps lock+shift+m. If you don't use NVDA's laptop layout, you need the numpad equivilent and I have no idea what that is.

For JAWS users, you arrow to the folder name and then route JAWS cursor to PC cursor. Generally with laptop layout that's caps lock+shift+[ (left bracket). With desktop layout it's insert+numpad - (minus). Once you hear "route JAWS to PC" switch back to the virtual pc cursor using caps lock ; (semi colon) on a laptop or just numpad + (plus).

Now that you hopefully did a successful hover over the folder name, Navigate right across the table, usually ctrl+alt+right arrow will do the trick, until you hopefully find the buttons that resulted. You may also be able to press b to get to it although beware that it could be the buttons are appearing for a different folder so you may want to arrow around to check which row they're on. You can press space on the connect button. It will place you on the edit box where you need to paste the path to the folder. See above for tips on that. Note that you again have the option to make this a selective sync folder, and the same rules apply as discussed above. If you are reconnecting an existing folder, Resilio will then ask you if you intend to merge your local folder against the content of the folder on all other devices. Beware that if your folder is significantly out of date, you may cause problems by doing this and perhaps would rather delete your local folder and create it and then point Resilio at it while empty to get it to just download everything fresh. Note that sometimes these prompts are recognized as dialogues and may not get screen reader focus. In general, if this happens the dialogue will be at the very bottom of the page. You may be able to press enter on the dialogue to gain access to the controls in it or perhaps just pressing the tab key.

Disconnecting a folder is similar to above. navigate to the folder's name and move your mouse pointer to it. Now attempt to find the disconnect button. (Warning: if you are already disconnected, this is a remove button and that will clear the folder from all devices on your Sync Pro Identity, even other machines that had it downloaded and all synced up will disconnect and lose the key to sync it). Note also, disconnecting a folder does not delete it from disk, it only stops synchronizing it with other devices having been associated with that key.

The peers column, by default third one over, is generally a link that might say something like 1 of 1. This is telling you how many peers are available right now out of how many total seen in recent time of a few days. It's a link, hitting plain old space on that will bring up a peers page showing every peer in the folder. If it's not obvious, we mean every device that has this folder linked, be that with selective sync on or not. The device name is given and any information about the state of sync. Note that selective sync machines that don't have the whole folder downloaded always show as needing x number of files sent to them for probably obvious reasons. You can hit space on the name of a device and then go to the very bottom of the page to find out how many files along with the total size needs to be synced to or from that device. You can press escape a few times to get out of this.

This is probably super obvious but Resilio doesn't need the web UI open to function once it's set up. You can happily close out the browser and it'll do the syncing thing in the background. It's also super good at resuming where it left off. There's no concern if you lose internet or your battery dies or you otherwise interrupt transfers. It'll pick up where it left off when ever it is able.

Resilio has many settings. The global settings are available by pressing the options button which is found quickly if you arrow down from the top, but ctrl+, (comma) will do the trick as well. Navigating down the page after opening settings (options) will eventually find a bunch of tabs that may not call themselves as much. (General, identity, advanced, web UI, license). You can press space on these and that will change the content below to completely different screens of options. General might be useful to change the default sync folder location or check for updates. Identity is how you can introduce other Resilio installations with your Sync Pro identity. Advanced allows to do some connection settings including bandwidth limitations, and also has a power user preferences link that when activated loads up a whole new world of configurability that's somewhat into the "mess with it if you dare" category. Web UI lets you change your web UI's username and password pair, and the default port it uses as well as whether to allow incoming connections from other computers. That last one is handy if this is a server and or someone else's computer you need to be able to help with, but it does require that the port be opened (forwarded etc) if you will access it from outside of your Local Area Network. License is how you start the process of buying Sync Pro or activating a Resilio Sync installation to be part of your Sync Pro identity. Note that the last time I activated my Sync Pro identity I had to use the in-page browser to select the .btskey file as coppying the path to it wouldn't work for some reason.

One concept it's probably good to have is you can just put synced folders willie nillie. This does give better flexibility than many of the cloud file sharing and collaborating services offer. I personally sync my music folder right in the music folder on my user account for instance. You can sync a part of a synced folder using a different key in theory to for instance let someone else have access to just a subfolder only of such a folder that is already otherwise synced with yet other people, but last time I tried it, it actually caused weird problems that I couldn't quantify, so perhaps do it at your own risk only.

Resilio will let you put synced folders on your network, sd card, flash drive, ssd, internal or external, mapped network drives, folders stored in Dropbox and One Drive and such. If it's an external drive that you can unplug and do just that, Resilio will quietly let you know on the folders page that a folder cannot be found and in general will otherwise not give any headache about it though obviously any changes can't be synced to your drive until it's available again. In theory you can introduce changes to that folder with another computer that has the drive connected to it and when you give it back to Resilio it will sync those changes to other devices while also trying to sync any changes you missed out on to this drive.

Note that Resilio will as I mentioned above let you point it at a folder that is otherwise synced with another program like One Drive, Sync Thing etc. This allows for what I'd call Cross Syncing. Say I have Resilio and I drop something in my sync folder. Your Resilio downloads it into Dropbox. Dropbox then sees that you put a new file in it, and then uploads that file to Dropbox. Now, person 3 because that's really their name puts something else in that same folder on Dropbox. Dropbox downloads it, Resilio notices the new file and transmits it to me when ever I am online to get it. I have used this extensively with One Drive folders am actually unsure of scenarios where it just plain won't work properly e.g. does it actually work right with Dropbox? No idea. I do want to point out that Sync-On-Demand (One Drive) and Smart Sync (Dropbox) in conjunction with cross-syncing via Resilio sounds like a very, very bad idea. Also, don't let two or more instances of the same Resilio folder on different devices cross sync that same folder to the same cloud location that would already sync to both locations. For instance, say we both have a music folder in One Drive. We also have a music folder in Resilio. We both point Resilio at our music folder in One Drive. Not only is that pointless because One Drive is already syncing that for us thank you very much, but it has the potential to break things super bad because both Resilio and One Drive will be attempting to move the same files simultaneously and we'll have conflicts. With One Drive specifically however, pointing one specific instance of Resilio at a One Drive folder has made it so that people accessing that folder via other instances of Resilio have no trouble as long as they don't try to point it at their own One Drive folder too, and people accessing it on One Drive don't know anything different. Might not have been too obvious but there's nothing wrong with using Resilio to cross-sync two different other cloud services e.g. your music folder that Resilio is pointed at is in your One Drive. I pointed at my music in my Dropbox. Weird perhaps, but Resilio is happy to please.

Resilio's Selective Sync option has two important factors. Firstly, files not downloaded are displayed using 0 byte placeholder files as representations of them. These representation files have a .rsls extension. You can hit enter on an .rsls to download it although that's a little hit and miss. If we hit the context key or shift+f10 while focused on one in file explorer we do have a couple of options, sync to this device or remove from this device and possibly remove from all devices. You can do this on entire folder, subfolders of a synced folder, etc. For instance, the entire folder one could choose remove from this device after hitting shift+f10 while focused on the folder in file explorer (but don't open it) and that will delete all locally downloaded content from the folder and turn the files back into .rsls placeholders. If you use One Drive and Sync-on-Demand, this is similar.

Note that Sync-On-Demand does not work on certain filesystems mostly fat32. I can't remember if XFat works or not. I always format sd cards and external flash drives that I think I will want Resilio to sync things onto as NTFS and call it a day. This is just Sync-On-Demand mostly, it does actually sync to them just fine just you don't get full Sync-On-Demand functionality.

Note that I do have the impression Resilio uses more CPU time and more internet for Sync-On-Demand folders. I'm yet to prove it.

Note that while Resilio supports filesystem watcher events so will know immediately when you change a local file and can sync it right away, it also polls the folders at regular intervals. By default this is every 600 seconds. You can change that in the power user section of the advanced settings I mentioned above. It is possible that an external drive or an internal one with power disable functionality that can spin down (obviously I'm talking about spinning hard drives haha) may spool up every time Resilio does the manual polling. This could make it desirable to slow this interval down a fair bit.

Note that Resilio will sync on a device that is not synchronized properly with the current time, but it won't like it. It'll generate some errors and may not sync in full or might otherwise cause weird conflicts.

Some keyboard shortcuts I use often are ctrl+u to get to the "add a key or link" dialogue, ctrl+, (comma) to go to settings and ctrl+/ (forward slash) to access a list of keyboard shortcuts. Escape will often times close something out and land you back on the main page. F5 is your friend in Resilio. If you can't get things to cooperate, f5 to refresh the page may help.

=Screen Reader Keystrokes=
==Mouse Hover: as Needed on Folders View to Make Change Them==
It feels like the most important thing to get across here is the ability to move the mouse to the folder name as discussed before. The goal here is to hover the mouse pointer over top of the folder name to cause some options like disconnect or connect and options to appear next to the folder name.

*NVDA Generally caps lock+shift+m.
*JAWS: route JAWS to the virtual pc cursor and then switch back to the virtual pc cursor. Generally that would be caps lock+shift+[ (left bracket) and then caps lock ; (semi colon) for laptop users or insert+numpad - (minus) and then numpad++ (plus) for desktop users.

==Table Navigation==
Second most important is how to navigate the table. For JAWS users, having smart navigation on and/or screen layout mode enabled introduces a whole new and interesting can of worms but in general, for both screen readers, holding down the ctrl and alt keys and using the arrows lets you navigate the table structure of the folder view.
*Ctrl+alt+left will go left across the columns, to the far left being the name of the folder.
*Ctrl+alt+right goes back to the right again, and, if displayed, the far right will be the disconnect or connect button and the options button.
*Ctrl+alt+up and down arrow go up and down between the rows respectively.

For example, you can go to the far left to the folder names and then use ctrl+alt+down arrow to quickly scroll down the list of folders hearing their names and only their names as you go.

'''Note that JAWS also has this nifty alt+windows+up and down and left and right thing that reads the whole row or column as you go. For instance ctrl+alt+down would go down the table reading all the contents of the table's row (all of the columns) in one fell swoop each time you press it. Of course, you get that automagically with smart table navigation turned on in JAWS or just having JAWS set to use screen layout for web views. I'm feeling a little too lazy to laboriously document the whole procedure for enabling that, so if you wanna try it, it's your very own adventure.'''

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Valiant8086:

Cyber Assault

2017-10-01T17:40:46Z

Valiant8086: a bunch more hotkeys

Welcome to the MTScripts Cyber Assault Soundpack!

=Introduction=
This page documents the basic functionality of the [http://cyberassault.org Cyber Assault] Soundpack that is part of the [http://valiant8086.com/games/muds/monkeyterm/mtscripts MTScripts] installation, an add-on to the [http://valiant8086.com/games/muds/monkeyterm Monkey Term] [http://www.mudconnect.com/mud_intro.html mud] client.

=What is Cyber Assault?=
Cyber Assault is an online mud (multi user dungeon) style text based game. See [http://cyberassault.wikia.com/wiki/CyberASSAULT_Wiki their own wiki for more]

=What is a mud client?=
To play mud games, you need a mud client, like Monkey Term, Vip Mud, Mush Client, ZMud and there are a large number of other options. While muds are generally text based, sometimes a player or group of players of a mud may want to improve the experience. One way to do that is by creating a soundpack. This allows the mud client to be able to play sounds when specific text from the mud appears, and optionally change or hide that text, perhaps to reduce spam (a term mud players use to indicate a large amount of text coming in quickly enough to make it difficult or impossible to keep up reading it all. Some players of Cyber Assault have generated a soundpack for the Monkey Term mud client. That soundpack is delivered as part of the [http://valiant8086.com/games/muds/monkeyterm/mtscripts MTScripts] package, an add-on that gives several soundpacks to Monkey Term users. This page is the documentation for the Cyber Assault soundpack.

=Loading and connecting to the mud=
#Open Monkey Term. If you are presented with the recent sessions list, close it first. If you want the keyboard shortcut for that, alt+f4 should do it.
#Bring up the open dialogue, either by clicking the file menu, then open or by pressing ctrl+o.
#browse to your Monkey Term installation directory, which if you follow the suggestions in the MTScripts download pages and installer prompts, is in your user's documents folder.
#browse to the files directory
#find Cyber Assault.xml and, with it selected hit open or press enter.

=Configuration (config) options explained=
==Basic Options==
===speech: speak incoming text? Currently enabled===
This item allows you to turn automatic speech output off. The default assumption here is that you want it. Typing cfg speech disables it. Note that if you don't use a screen reader, your computer's built in SAPI speech will read out the text, so you may desire to turn it off because most likely it'll just be a distraction.
 Hotkey ctrl+shift+s does this.

===kcmd, keep Text in the input box after you press enter so you can hit enter to send again? currently disabled===
When you type a command for the mud and hit enter to send, by default the text vanishes from the input edit field. This option allows you to change that so it remains in place, but is highlighted (selected). This would enable you to:
#repeat the command, hit enter again to send the same text to the mud again
#replace the command, , just start typing another command with the edit field still highlighted. The text from the previous command vanishes and what you are typing shows up as expected.
#edit the command, move your input carrot to somewhere in the text, which unselects it, and modify it to your liking and hit enter to send the edited version.
 Hotkey f11 does this.

===ali: set up automatic logging in currently not configured===
This option allows the soundpack to quickly log your character in immediately upon loading of the session. To disable it, type
 cfg ali
 to enable it, type
 cfg ali name password
 where name is the character's name and password is your password. Note the password is stored in plain text in the xml, not encrypted in any way shape or form. If you have security concerns about this, don't use auto login.

===history: Store channel sends in the history buffer? enabled===
This option toggles whether things you and other players say on channels like gossip, say, tell are stored in the history buffer. To toggle it between on and off, type
 cfg his

===echo: turn on command echo so you can up arrow through previous commands? enabled===
This option toggles whether your commands are echoed back to you. When on, commands you type are
#stored in the input edit field, so you can up arrow to prior commands then edit them as needed and press enter to send again
#the commands appear interspersed among the text being outputted from the mud
This may be undesirable. Especially for blind folks who find arrowing past all the input commands on the way up or down the screen in search of some output message. This is on by default, to toggle it, type
 cfg echo

===reset: reset the xml to distribution default settings===
Resets every configuration (config)option and several extra options not here present, such as the sound volume levels, to the default they were on when you opened the session for the first time.

==Text hiding, truncating and verbosity==

==Soundpack settings==

==automation==
=hotkeys=
==Generic hotkeys==
===Clear the input box and interrupt all incoming speech escape===
Interrupts any supported screen reader or SAPI speech, and clears the input window. Handy if you make a mistake while typing something and just want to start over.

===Toggle keep command text (kcmd) on or off f11)===
See the section [[#kcmd, keep Text in the input box after you press enter so you can hit enter to send again? currently disabled]] of the config command for an explanation of what this is. f11 is a shortcut key to toggle the same thing.

==sounds==
===increase volume (f3)===
Makes the general sounds louder
===decrease volume (f2)===
makes the general sounds softer
===increase engine volume (shift+f3)===
makes the sounds of engines for vehicles louder
===decrease engine volume (shift+f2)===
makes the sounds of engines for vehicles softer
==speech output==
===Toggle main speech output (shift+ctrl+s)===
The main speech output is what is used by default to read aloud all text that comes back from the mud. If you're blind or low vision and you use a screen reader, this is quite handy. The session will try to make your screen reader do the talking. If no supported screen reader can be detected, the built in windows SAPI speech function will be used instead. The voice used by SAPI can be assigned as described below.

===next SAPI adjustment option (ctrl+plus)===
Cycles to the next adjustable SAPI option. If you reach the end with this, it starts over. The options are voice, rate, and volume. See the below sections on increasing and decreasing current SAPI options values for more.

===previous SAPI adjustment option (ctrl+minus)===
Cycles to the previous adjustable SAPI option. If you reach the end with this, it starts over. The options are volume, rate, and voice. See the below sections on increasing and decreasing current SAPI options values for more.

===increase current SAPi option's value (shift+ctrl+plus)===
Increases the value of the current SAPi adjustment option, see the two sections about that above.
#voice: selects the next SAPi voice
#rate: increases the SAPi rate by 5 percent
#volume: increases the SAPI volume by 5 percent

===decrease current SAPi option's value (shift+ctrl+minus)===
Decreases the value of the current SAPi adjustment option, see the two sections about that above.
#voice: selects the previous SAPi voice
#rate: decreases the SAPi rate by 5 percent
#volume: decreases the SAPI volume by 5 percent

==History Buffer==
The history buffer is a stored list of what probably will be channel sends for later reviewing using a provided set of key combinations. It is possible to add what ever you want to it, but the most common method for getting things stored there is the channel history function, which you can toggle with the config his command. When this is on, supported channels will be represented in the history buffer. This is handy for a quick way to review what has been said by other players when there might be too much incoming text to be able to properly keep up with all the socialization going on. Note too that if you don't use a screen reader or you have speech output toggled off for one reason or another, the below listed keystrokes for reviewing the history buffer do still speak. If you use them while you haven't a supported screen reader running, this'll still speak, using your computer's built in SAPi function.
 Note that the first time you use any of the below keystrokes you'll hear an ascending tone. This indicates that the buffer wasn't remembering a prior position to start from, so will now start at the most recent buffer item. Afterward, it will remember the position for about 1 minute after the last buffer reviewing command, then you'll hear a descending tone indicating that it has reset, and next time you press a buffer reviewing key it will begin at the most recent item again.
 Channel history is not enabled by default, config his will toggle it.

===Previous buffer item ctrl+comma===
Move to and read the previous message.

===Next buffer item ctrl+slash===
move to and read the next message

===repeat current buffer item ctrl+period===
announces the current buffer item again

===first buffer item ctrl+shift+comma===
move to and read the first, (oldest), item in the buffer

===last buffer item ctrl+shift+slash===
move to and read the last, (newest), item in the buffer.

===Spell current buffer item ctrl+apostrophe===
Spells the current item in the buffer character by character. Might be handy for learning the name of someone who is sending you tells or similar.

==Queerying information==
===Report your health and that of your enemy (if any) ctrl+grave accent (`)===
Speaks the condition of your opponent (if any), and then reports the number of health points and the percentage of your max health points you have.

===Report your psi ctrl+shift+p===
Speaks the number of psionic points you currently have.

===Report your vitality ctrl+shift+v===
Speaks the number of vitality points you currently have.

===Report your resource units shift+ctrl+u===
Speaks the number of resource units (ru) you currently have.

===Report your quest points shift+ctrl+q===
Speaks the number of quest points (qp) you currently have.

===Report your ammunition shift+ctrl+m===
Speaks the number of ammunition rounds you currently have, provided you're using a weapon that uses ammunition.

===Report your experience shift+ctrl+e===
Speaks the number of experience (exp) points you currently have.

===Report experience till next level (tnl) shift+ctrl+n===
Speaks the number of experience points you need to reach your next level.

===Report experience received for last kill ctrl+w===
Speaks the number of experience you got for the last kill.

===Toggle brief mode on or off ctrl+r===
Turns the game's brief mode (help brief) on or off.

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Clan Havoc Events

2010-05-04T03:13:12Z

Valiant8086:

Welcome to Clan havoc 

[http://clanHavoc.valiant8086.com go to our homepage]
=What is this?=
This page contains various information about the events organized and done by Clan havoc

=events=
==Rescued Lexie and Mathayas From the Overpowering Control of the Demon: May 2, 2010==
This event was planned and hosted by Lexie, Zogg and Mathayas.

Mathayas and Lexie suddenly began shouting things like "He has me! I COME MASTER SANGTHAYLUS!" and then disappeared. It developed that they had been taken under control by the demon who stands on the balcony of the iceberg.

Natalie apparently was among the first to figure this out. She visited the demon and then left, while Mathayas and Lexie were there, having been forced to hide and wait for their unsuspecting clannies to come in and then be killed. Natalie was undisturbed because the demon waited for more meat to come. Eventually Lokar came in and was attacked by Lexie. Mathayas then joined in and together Lexie and Mathayas tried to defeat Lokar. Both Lexie and Mathayas were defeated instead. Lokar, with some help from other clannies turned to attack the demon and slay it for it's horrible deeds, but unfortunately the demon had managed to keep control of Mathayas and Lexie even after death. Those too were forced to rejoin combat and managed to defeat Lokar while he was trying to kill the demon.

Mathayas and Lexie, then again hurt badly, attacked Natalie who wandered in to see what was going on. Natalie was defeated.

There then came a brief calm as clan members got together and tried to figure out what to do. Zogg lead them against the demon and the enslaved Mathayas and Lexie. Almost the entire clan stormed in on the demon and his too slaves. Lokar attacked Mathayas while everyone else all targeted Lexie. Mathayas dealt some damage to Lokar and then tried to hurt Colonel but was killed before he could do much. Lexie died even sooner, seeing as she had five people attacking her. After that, everyone switched to the demon and killed it horribly quickly.

And so, Mathayas and Lexie were saved from being enslaved by the terrible Demon.

==Builder silliness: January 17, 2010==
This event was planned and hosted by Lexie. Clan members were given one room each that they could edit. On January 17, 2010 we took a grand tour of the clan area, examining each of these rooms carefully. After the tour was over everyone voted who they thought was the best builder in each of five categories. The categories were: Most creative, most comfortable, most in keeping with the clan history, most humorous, and most creative use of extras (doors etc).

Participants were Brynn, Cheetah, Colonel, Ishark, Locane and Zogg.

The winners were:

*Most creative: Zogg
*Most Comfortable: Cheetah
*Most In Keeping with the Clan history: Colonel
*Most Humorous: Locane
*Most use of extras (doors etc): Zogg

The elders concluded that more members than we were expecting actually joined in. We ran out of doors before we were finished and Colonel had to do without. Colonel decided her room made more sense to go without a door so that worked out ok fortunately. In fact the whole clan participated except two people. Everyone did a pretty darned good job, and we had quite a bit of fun walking around making fun at one another's room. Especially Ishark's, who's formatting made Locane, our only sighted clannie who participated, "go up in smoke" as I put it, threatening to claw out his eyes. We got a hoot out of that. Locane's own room was really amusing, most of the words starting with the letter "l".

Zogg's room impressed everyone. People kept telling him he should become a professional poet.

==Rescue Gahan: December 18, 2009==
no information is available right now

==Kill all the clannies!: December 18, 2009==
This event was planned and hosted by Lexie and Mathayas. It was essentially a giant free for all "go kill your clannies as hard and fast as you can! Last standing is the winner" type thing.

The event took place in the clan area, where the elders had previously walked through raising noRecall flags on every room and inserted a door that prevented clannies from walking into clan recall to safety. The plan was to keep fighting the event running until there was one person aside from the 3 judges left outside of recall.

The judges were Gahan, Mathayas and Lexie. These 3 were chosen because they were higher level than everyone else and we wanted to keep the event fare.

The participants in the event were Colonel, Ishark, Locane and Zogg.

We walked out of recall and closed the door sealing the way back to recall. We then gave everyone a certain amount of time to get ready. Lexie counted off the time and when the time was up she shouted out for everyone to get going. Clannies scattered in all directions and started tearing one another into tiny little pieces suitable to be fed to, well, let's just say the pk event was off in full force!

the judges tried to wander around staying in separate rooms from other judges and watching the clannies to try and record how the event went. there was lots of moving about. In fact the only person who didn't move that we noticed was Locane. He wasn't quite ready when the time came and he got caught a little flat footed by that, but managed to stay alive for a pretty long time by using restoration mana orbs. Locane was the first to go down.

Next to go down was Colonel, who had been softened up by Locane.

Next was Ishark, leaving Zogg the last standing and first place winner!

The order of winners were:
*First place: Zogg: prize was 35000 gold
*Second place: Ishark: prize was 20000 gold
*third place: colonel: prize was 15000 gold
*forth place: Locane: prize was 10000 gold

This event hasn't been fully documented yet. Information may be inaccurate

ClanHavoc

2010-01-25T09:02:11Z

Valiant8086: fixed the link back to the clan website to work for the new site instead of the old one

Welcome to Clan havoc 

[http://clanHavoc.valiant8086.com go to our homepage]
=What is this?=
This page contains various information about the events organized and done by Clan havoc

=events=
==Builder silliness: January 17, 2010==
This event was planned and hosted by lexie. Clan members were given one room each that they could edit. On January 17, 2010 we took a grand tour of the clan area, examining each of these rooms carefully. After the tour was over everyone voted who they thought was the best builder in eachof five categories. The categories were: Most creative, most comfortable, most in keeping with the clan history, most humorous, and most creative use of extras (doors etc).

Participants were Brynn, Cheetah, Colonel, Ishark, Locane and Zogg.

The winners were:

*Most creative: Zogg
*Most Comfortable: Cheetah
*Most In Keeping with the Clan history: Colonel
*Most Humorous: Locane
*Most use of extras (doors etc): Zogg

The elders concluded that more members than we were expecting actually joined in. We ran out of doors before we were finished and Colonel had to do without. Colonel decided her room made more sense to go without a door so that worked out ok fortunately. In fact the whole clan participated except two people. Everyone did a pretty darned good job, and we had quite a bit of fun walking around making fun at one another's room. Especially Ishark's, who's formatting made Locane, our only sighted clannie who participated, "go up in smoke" as I put it, threatening to claw out his eyes. We got a hoot out of that. Locane's own room was really amuzing, most of the words starting with the letter "l".

Zogg's room impressed everyone. People kept telling him he should become a professional poet.

==Rescue Gahan: December 18, 2009==
no information is available right now

==Kill all the clannies!: December 18, 2009==
This event was planned and hosted by Lexie and Mathayas. It was esentially a giant free for all "go kill your clannies as hard and fast as you can! Last standing is the winner" type thing.

The event took place in the clan area, where the elders had previously walked through raising noRecall flags on every room and inserted a door that prevented clannies from walking into clan recall to safety. The plan was to keep fighting the event running until there was one person aside from the 3 judges left outside of recall.

The judges were Gahan, Mathayas and Lexie. These 3 were chosen because they were higher level than everyone else and we wanted to keep the event fare.

The participants in the event were Colonel, Ishark, Locane and Zogg.

We walked out of recall and closed the door sealing the way back to recall. We then gave everyone a certain amount of time to get ready. Lexie counted off the time and when the time was up she shouted out for everyone to get going. Clannies scattered in all directions and started tearing one another into tiny little pieces suitable to be fed to, well, let's just say the pk event was off in full force!

the judges tried to wander around staying in separate rooms from other judges and watching the clannies to try and record how the event went. there was lots of moving about. In fact the only person who didn't move that we noticed was locane. He wasn't quite ready when the time came and he got caught a little flat footed by that, but managed to stay alive for a pretty long time by using restoration mana orbs. Locane was the first to go down.

Next to go down was Colonel, who had been softened up by Locane.

Next was Ishark, leaving Zogg the last standing and first place winner!

The order of winners were:
*First place: Zogg: prise was 35000 gold
*Second place: Ishark: prise was 20000 gold
*third place: colonel: prise was 15000 gold
*forth place: Locane: prise was 10000 gold

This event hasn't been fully documented yet. Information may be inaccurate

Default xml

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default.xml

This information currently applies to: MTScripts 3.2.66

=Initial notes=
Default.xml's contents is coppied into new xmls when they are created. It should never be opened unless one intends to modify the behavior of brand new xml files. That said, newly created xml files, as they use the same information found in default.xml, are still covered by this help file. this help file is actually intended to help people creating new xml files from the ground up and who are using MTScripts to know what they can do to configure their new xml file. so it's kind of an xml file developer's reference. it explains everything found in the fmt and what all of that stuff does. it tries to explain what stuff can and cannot be modified without breaking the functionality of what. If you pressed ctrl+f1 while in something other than default.xml and ended up with this page, it's because the path to the help page for that xml file was not modified and consequently it may mean that xml hasn't itself been modified enough to warrant a specific help file for it.
Notice that when I reference keybindings way down at the end of this help file, or close to the end anyway, on keybindings that have punctuation keys like period, slash, comma, apostrophe involved in them etc, I pointed out the ascii value of each punctuation key involved. this is because that's what the fmt does to reference the keys, and I did that so readers would be able to figure out which keybinding in the fmt it was exactly that I was talking about. I did poinnt out also which keys actually need to be pressed to activate that keybinding in parentheses after the name the fmt references it by so that should be the best of both worlds hopefully.

=What is default.xml?=
Default.xml is a file that sits in the monkeyTerm directory (c:\program files\monkeyTerm). When a new xml file is created, either by going to file and clicking on new, by pressing ctrl+n, by clicking new session from the recent sessions list etc, the contents of default.xml is loaded. This means by editing default.xml I was able to make brand new xml files already have some customization when created. Default.xml that is installed by MTScripts has been configured to use the script file that installs with MTScripts. it also has a few extra features besides, including the action that allows MonkeyTerm to make JAWS or Window-Eyes read incoming text from the mud. In short, after installing MTScripts, not only do users get the specific support for muds like Alter Aeon and Miriani by using the xml files that are installed in the files directory under monkeyterm, but they can make new xml files of their own that already talk, just hit ctrl+n and the whole process is already done.

All of that said, you may have pressed ctrl+f1 to get here, but you may not actually have been using default.xml when you did so. In fact it's likely you weren't. It's likely you created a new xml file and saved it somewhere and pressed ctrl+f1 and wound up with this page. Unless you or someone has made lots of changes to their new xml without remembering to change the link to go to a page that details the xml with it's many customizations, this page will probably still apply and be valid. Mathayas Alter Aeon for example has a different page, so the ctrl+f1 keybinding in that particular xml is modified to lead to that page instead of this one. Hopefully that made some sence.

=how do I open this default.xml?=
You don't, well, you can, but you're not expected to. When you open default.xml a counter goes off and changes the runcount from 0 to 1. This could cause new xml files that are created later to start out with a runcount of 1, which may cause problems. If default.xml must be opened, please change the value of the variable "default/runcounter" to 0 before saving and closing the xml. Default.xml is located in c:\program files\monkeyTerm\default.xml. To open it if that is necessary, open monkeyTerm and close the recent sessions list with alt+f4 if it appears. Press ctrl+o to get the open dialogue. Press shift+tab once or twice if you are using Windows XP or Windows 7 respectively, and use common browse techniques to browse to the path indicated previously for default.xml and press enter on the file. It will be opened and you're ready to go.

It's probably a great idea to read the information on the stuff available in default.xml so that if you create a new xml on your own at some point for a different mud that MTScripts doesn't have direct support for already you can make any adjustments to the xml you need to and know what you are doing.

=A quick tutorial on the available commands, actions, etc, in default.xml=
==Actions==
===default:===
====speech:====
=====output=====
the output action is the action that fetches all text that is sent to the client from the mud and, depending on your settings, may or may not instruct your desired speech system to speak that text. Deleting this action will completely break speech support from the mud, although it will not affect speech that the client does from it's own code.
=====history buffer=====
The history buffer action fetches all text from the screen and stores it in an aray variable which can later be read from using the appropriate keystrokes. The history buffer is an off screen version of all of the text that appears on screen. It allows to read the screen without having to chase text around on screen with the screen reader's flat review mode, and it also allows SAPI5 users to be able to read text they missed a second time. Helpful information is shown on screen about the history buffer when it is turned on. to turn it on, press ctrl+shift+f2. This is a toggle so if it turns off, press it again, or if it turns on and you want it turned off, press it again, etc. Generally this is disabled by default because it can slow down the client.
==Aliases==
===default===
====speedwalk====
This alias allows you to speedwalk by typing in simple one line commands. You can type something like nwswwws and then press enter to go north, west, south, west, west, west, and south all at once. One could also type something like 2s4w1s6w15n1w1n1w1n2w1n45e2s, and it will go that direction the same number of times as the number in front of each letter. The speedwalk is disabled by default because it prevents people from typing in news, as it converts that to north, east, west, south. I could fix that easily, but the other issue is that it doesn't support sub cardinal directions northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest. It does support up and down. Just check the active checkbox to try it out. Maybe at some point I'll be able to improve this alias.
====connection handling====
=====connect=====
This is an alias that initiates a connection to the mud when invoked. Just type "scon" or "sconnect" into the edit field in Monkey term to connect.
=====disconnect=====
This is an alias that terminates a connection to the mud when invoked. Just type "sdcon" or "sdconnect" or "sdisconnect" into the edit field in Monkey Term to disconnect.
===Autosay===
====launcher====
This alias initiates the autosay alias. it is disabled at the moment do to some major problems with the main autosay alias itself. When this alias is enabled, type asay and a bunch of instructions will appear on screen explaining how to use autosay.
====main====
This alias is the main part of the autosay functionality. The launcher alias turns this on and this alias begins to interpret everything that is typed and prefix it with what ever the launcher instructs it to prefix. This alias is always disabled if autosay functionality is turned off. turning this alias on will prevent all commands from working properly. to try out autosay, please check the active checkbox for the launcher alias and then type asay into the edit field in monkey Term.
==Events==
===default===
====sounds====
There are a few sound events that play sounds for opening the xml file, saving it, initiating a connection, disconnecting, etc. All of the events under default/sounds can be deleted without breaking anything other than the functionality of sounds that alert to when an xml is being saved etc.
====autosay====
=====run=====
this event is the timer that allows one to paste in text for the autosay system to send with the desired prefix, and the text not be sent all at once but rather one line at a time with a pause between each send. To change the pause interval between each send, select this event and change the interval to some other value.
===firstrun===
This event runs every time the xml file is open. it does a lot of different things such as loading up the desired sound volume setting from a stored variable in the xml, adding one to the runcounter, opening free slots for looping sounds, etc. It is this event that shows the text like "this is run number 85" when the xml is first open, but it of course does a whole lot of other stuff as well. This event should not be deleted nor disabled, as some of the things it does are necessary for certain functionalities, such as sound playback, to work properly if at all.
===hll timer===
This event is used for the history buffer. Deleting this event will completely break the history buffer. The code involved with the history buffer is found in a bunch of different keybindings, this event, and the action default/speech/history buffer.
==Keybindings==
===ctrl+[188] (ctrl+,)===
Moves to and reads the previous line in the history buffer.
===f3===
Turns the volume up for the sounds, except for the free slots
===f2===
Turns the volume down for the sounds, except for the free slots
===ctrl+f2===
cycles between the three different speech choices "Jaws or Window-Eyes", "SAPI5", or "no speech". Just press repeatedly until you get the one you want.
===ctrl+[191] (ctrl+/)===
Moves to and reads the next line in the history buffer.
===ctrl+[190] (ctrl+.)===
Reads the current line of the history buffer
===Escape===
Haults any speech currently going on. Most useful for SAPI5, since screen readers you can just press ctrl.
===ctrl+shift+f2===
Toggles the default/speech/history buffer action between enabled and disabled. When disabled, text will not be captured to the history buffer, but all keybindings related to the history buffer will still function. It is possible to turn the history buffer on, mud for a while, then disable it and still read what was stored there when the history buffer was enabled.
===ctrl+shift+[188] (ctrl+shift+,)===
Move to and read the first line in the history buffer
===ctrl+shift+[191] (ctrl+shift+/)===
Moves to and reads the last line in the history buffer.
===ctrl+shift+[190} (ctrl+shift+.)===
Read the history buffer from current location to end, sort of like say all
===ctrl+[222] (ctrl+')===
Sppell the current line in the history buffer
===ctrl+f1===
Opens this help file
===ctrl+shift+f3===
Toggles the default/number truncator substitutes. In short it turns the truncation of numbers like 332710 into 332k on and off.
==Substitutes==
===default===
====bell====
plays a loud sound when the mud instructs the client to play the bell sound. This keybinding can be deleted and the client will revert to playing the default windows beep sound. I like the sound it plays though, until someone beeps me, cause it usually scares me out of my skin.
====number truncator====
Truncates numbers like 78888151012 into 78.8bil. It's turned off by default. It generally gets in the way when you're trying to figure out how much currency you need for something, so at least it's easy to turn on and off, ctrl+shift+f3.
==Variables==
===sound volume===
Stores how loud you want your sounds to play. This variable's value is saved and restored when the client is opened by the default/firstrun event. If this variable is missing, no error will be printed but the sound's volume will default to 0.5 when the xml is opened. Editing this variable rather than using f2 and f3 will not work to adjust the volume of the sounds for the xml while it is open as that is stored in a visual basic variable for faster access. If the xml is saved and closed and reopened after thee value of this variable is changed the sound will be at the volume indicated in the variable, somewhere between 0.0 and 1.0 are valid values, other values will just go as far as it can go in that direction and then call it quits. I recommend that this and all other default variables be ignored, since the client has code to handle them by itself and editing these variables in correctly can break things.
===runcounter===
Stores how many times the xml has been loaded. the default/firstrun event adds one to this variable and then saves the xml every time the xml is opened.
===primary speech===
Stores which speech system you want to use. If this variable gets deleted or it's value is edited incorrectly it will completely break the speech system.

=summery:=
==Sound related stuff==
To decrease the volume, press f2. To increase it, press f3.
speech
To cycle between the different speech options, press ctrl+f2
History buffer
Press ctrl+shift+f2 to toggle the history buffer on and off.
Press ctrl+shift+, to go to the first line in the history buffer.
Press ctrl+shift+/ to go to the last line in the history buffer.
Press ctrl+, to go to the previous line in the history buffer.
Press ctrl+/ to go to the next line in the history buffer.
Press ctrl+. to read the current line in the history buffer.
Press ctrl+' to spell the current line in the history buffer.
Number Truncator
Press ctrl+shift+f3 to toggle the number truncator on and off.

=Conclusions=
This documentation is basically complete

Cyber Assault

2010-01-25T08:57:41Z

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Cyber Assault.xml

This help file currently applies to: MTScripts 3.2.7.0

=How to open Mathayas Cyber Assault.xml?=
Open Monkey Term and close the recent sessions list if it appears with alt+f4. press ctrl+o to get the open dialogue. Browse using common browse techniques to c:\program files\monkeyTerm\Mathayas Cyber Assault.xml and open it.

=What are some initial setup configurations one should make to get this xml to work best?=
==Select desired speech output==
Press ctrl+f2 to cycle between the speech settings. By default speech is set to sapi5. If you are a JAWS or Window-eyes user press this until it says "JAWS or Window-Eyes". Speech can be turned completely off using this key as well. If you lose automatic speech at any point try hitting ctrl+f2 to see if it comes back on.

==Change the configuration to suit==
The config, (cfg for short), command allows users to modify some of the functionality of the xml. This section should explain how to take advantage of the config command.
===The config list===
Just typing config and pressing enter displays a lot of information. Displayed is all that can be adjusted by using arguments when a user enters the config command. Let's call this the config list. Remember that cfg works as well. We will put each option that is available there below and include a description.
====Basic options:====
=====auto login: set up automatic logging in currently set to mathayas=====
Use this option to configure automatic character name and password entry when a connection to cyber Assault is initially established. It will type the user name, then the password and stop there. The user will still have to press return to continue and then press 1 to actually log in, unless they were llinkDead. If The user has security concerns I discourage the use of this feature since the password is stored in a very easy to access varriable, which can be viewed either from the Client itself or by opening the xml file in another program such as internet explorer or notepad.

Syyntax: cfg ali user pass

syntax: config auto login mathayas mypassword

=====reset: reset the xml to distribution default settings=====
This deletes the auto login information, resets speech and sounds along with some of the truncations back to default settings, and ensures the soundpack is turned on. I use this command when I am about to package a new version of the soundpack to make sure when users run the xml it behaves with it's default functionality, plus that it doesn't log them into my character.

syntax: cfg reset

====Text hiding, truncating and verbocity:====
=====numbers: Truncate numbers? enabled=====
This turns a substitute who's function is to truncate any number longer than 3 digits encountered on or off. If on, any number that is longer than 3digits will be truncated to a form like 3k, 55k, 181k, 9m, 98m, 981m, 8.4bil. k means thousand, m means million and bil of course means billion. It might be necessary to disable this if a user is trying to work with gold or get an email address with a 4 or more digit sequence of numbers in it or something like that.
tip: This can be more easily toggled with ctrl+f3.

syntax: cfg numbers

=====exits: Truncate exits and put them before room description? enabled=====
This toggles a substitute who's function it is to truncate exits on or off and cause exits to appear before room descriptions instead of after. When on, this substitute causes the exits to appear before the room name and description as a user walks about. It also will remove some of the characters and the word exits: from around the list of exits, making it easier to listen to with a screen reader..

syntax: cfg exits

====Soundpack settings:====
=====sounds: use the soundpack? enabled=====
This will toggle the soundpack on and off. It will not toggle any important sounds. these are sounds that indicate channels mostly. Disabling these sounds would brake other functionality elsewhere in the xml or at least make it unreliable depending on whether the soundpack were on and off. When the soundpack is turned on, all of the sound support will be used. Many things will be truncated, especially handy for screen reader users who could always use less to have to listen to.

syntax; cfg sounds

====automation====
=====auto reload: set up automatic reloading currently set to clip, located in duf=====
Set whether automatic reloading is done when a weapon runs out of amunition. To turn off just type cfg reload. to turn on, type something like cfg reload clip duf. This says the amunition is called clip, and the container is called duff, which in my case is short for a duffel. In the case of this example it would type get clip duf, followed by typing load of course.

syntax: cfg reload

syntax: cfg reload clip duf

=hotkeys=
This section details all of the hotkeys available in Mathayas Cyber Assault.xml.
==ctrl+` grave accent. speak health and apponent condition==
Speak the character's health and the condition of the aponent if in combat. Prompt status monitor must be enabled for this to work.

==ctrl+shift+p. speak psi==
Speak the character's psionic points. Prompt status monitor must be enabled for this to work.

==ctrl+shift+v. speak vitality==
Speak the character's vitality. Prompt status monitor must be enabled for this to work.

==ctrl+shift+e. speak experience==
Speak the character's experience. Prompt status monitor must be enabled for this to work.

==ctrl+shift+n. speak experience tnl==
Speak and display the character's experience needed for the next level. Prompt status monitor must be enabled for this to work.

==ctrl+shift+u. speak resource units==
Speak the character's resource units currently being carried. Banked resource units are not counted. Prompt status monitor must be enabled for this to work.

==ctrl+shift+q. speak quest points==
Speak the character's quest points. Prompt status monitor must be enabled for this to work.

==ctrl+shift+m. speak ammo==
Speak the character's current weapon's amunition. Prompt status monitor must be enabled for this to work.

==f6. Prompt Status Monitor: cycle values==
cycle through the adjustments that can be made to the prompt status monitor.

==f7. Prompt Status Monitor: decrease value==
Decrease the value of the currently selected item to be adjusted that was selected with f6. for instance, if f6 was pressed until it was set to Report health, f7 would then decrease the percentage at which health would start being reported.

==f8. Prompt Status Monitor: Increase value==
Increase the value of the currently selected item to be adjusted that was selected with f6. for instance, if f6 was pressed until it was set to Report health, f8 would then decrease the percentage at which health would start being reported.

==ctrl+shift+f3. Toggle number truncation==
Toggles the truncation of numbers larger than 4 digits on and off. For instance, 1234 would appear as 1k, 12345 would appear as 12k, 123456 would appear as 123k, 1234567 would appear as 1m, etc. 788512699369 appears as 788.6bil. A config command, cfg numbers, exists to do this as well. A user may want this off if they are trying to get a web address or email address that might have numbers with 4 or more digits in them. Also for situations when one needs to know how much resources units etc.

=Conclusions=
this help file is still being written.

Mathayas alter aeon

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Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml

This help file currently directly applies to: MTScripts 3.2.66

=What is Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml?=
Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml is a soundpack for the mud Alter Aeon. It has sounds for most spells and a few other things as well. It uses the prompt from the mud and does a number of interesting things with it. It is part of MTScripts and includes a neat little XP and gold counter which lets you keep track of how much experience and gold you've gained or lost. Most of my time working with MTScripts went straight into Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml, which is an exact copy of the xml I use to play the character Mathayas on alter Aeon. It has a lot of functionality, and this help page will try to touch on everything so new or upgrading users can take advantage of all the features.

=How to open Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml?=
Open Monkey Term and close the recent sessions list if it appears with alt+f4. press ctrl+o to get the open dialogue. Browse using common browse techniques to c:\program files\monkeyTerm\Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml and open it.

=What are some initial setup configurations one should make to get this xml to work best?=
Note that the config or cfg command has been introduced to make initial setup easier. If you prefer, you can just type cfg and press enter to be presented with a list of options that you can configure.
==Select desired speech output==
Press ctrl+f2 to cycle between the speech settings. By default speech is set to sapi5. If you are a JAWS or Window-eyes user press this until it says "JAWS or Window-Eyes". Speech can be turned completely off using this key as well. If you lose automatic speech at any point try hitting ctrl+f2 to see if it comes back on.

==Modify your eq change aliases to set the eq variable (optional).==
The eq variable is an Alter Aeon based variable that Monkey Term monitors, changing it's own variable's value to match that of the Alter Aeon variable. The purpose of this is to help Monkey term figure out what equipment set you are wearing and behave differently depending. For instance, if it thinks you are in hit and you have the trigger system turned on, it will make you automatically assist, etc. To learn about Alter Aeon's variable functionality, log into it and type help variable. To set this up, at the end of each alias you have made for changing equipment you need a command that looks like this.
var eq eqhit
The above command has the word hit in it, telling Monkey term to behave like you are in a hit set. right now there are two different values that make a difference, eqhit and eqtank. If you set it to eqheal for example, it will behave as though the variable were not set at all.
Tip: You can just type this yourself into alter Aeon instead of putting it in your equipment change aliases. Useful if you don't have eq change aliases or otherwise haven't added them to your aliases.

=Hotkeys=
There are many hotkeys that can be used to do a wide variety of different things. Here we'll take an in depth look at the keybindings.

==Speech related==
===ctrl+f2: toggle the selected speech output===

===ctrl+shift+f2: toggle the history buffer===

==Prompt related==
===f6: Cycle through the different values that can be adjusted===

===f7: decrease the currently selected value===

===f8: Increase the currently selected value===

===ctrl+grave accent: speak the current health of the character and that of the target if any===

==Spell reporter keybindings==
===ctrl+shift+q: cycle through the different spell reporter options that can be adjusted===

===ctrl+shift+w: toggle the value of the currently selected option that was chosen with ctrl+shift+q===

==Melee hotkeys==
===ctrl+b: bash===

===ctrl+l: leap===

===ctrl+k: kick===

===ctrl+i: trip===

===ctrl+t: throw and then retrieve the item selected with the config throw command at the current target===

===ctrl+g: retrieve the throw item selected from up to 5 different corpses and from the ground===

==Others==
===ctrl+shift+h: enters the home command===

===ctrl+r: replay the last two channels ends that contain the word tell===

===ctrl+shift+f3: toggle the number truncator===

===f2: decrease the sound volume===

===f3: increase the sound volume===

===shift+f2: decrease the terrain sound volume===

===shift+f3: increase the terrain sound volume===

==History buffer commands==
===ctrl+shift+f2: Toggle the history buffer on and off===

===ctrl+shift+comma: beginning of buffer===

===ctrl+shift+slash: end of buffer===

===ctrl+comma: previous buffer entry===

===ctrl+slash: next buffer entry===

===ctrl+period: read current buffer entry===

===ctrl+shift+period: Read from current history buffer entry to end===

===ctrl+apostrophe: spell current buffer entry===

=Conclusions=
this help file is still being written.

MTScripts

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'''Welcome to MTScripts documentation!'''

these links lead to all of the documentation currently publically available for MTScripts.

[[mathayas_alter_aeon]]
help for Mathayas Alter Aeon.xml

[[mathayas_cyber_assault]]
help for mathayas cyber Assault.xml

[[default_xml]]
help for default.xml

DiceDocumentation

2010-01-25T08:51:44Z

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Welcome!

=What is this?=
This is the documentation for the PKB Dice program.

=Getting started=
==Installation==
To install the program, download it from [http://www.valiant8086.x-sight-interactive.net/pkb here] and run the .exe file. First the installer will recommend that any other versions of the dice program be not currently running, and has a next button. After clicking next, there will be a prompt for the folder to install the program itself in. Just press enter to accept the default if that is satisfactory. The next page asks where to put the start menu shortcuts. if the defaults are satisfactory just press enter again. The installation will then complete, taking about 30 seconds. After the installation has completed, a checkbox is displayed that will, if checked, run the newly installed program when clicking the finish button. finally, click finish.

==Uninstallation==
There are several ways to uninstall the program. Perhaps the easiest is to locate the start menyu folder for the programm. By default this is start menu/all programs/pkb group/dice. click on "uninstall dice" to begin the uninstallation.

Another method of initiating the uninstallation process is to go through add/remove programs (win xp or earlier) or Programs and features (vista or later) and locate the dice program and remove it that way.

A dialogue will appear asking if the user is sure they wish to uninstall the program. They can click yes or no. If they click yes the program will be uninstalled immediately.

==Running the program==
Run the program from the installed sstart menu folder. by default during installation this was start menu/all programs/pkb group/dice. If the user changed the start menu folder during the installation process they should look where they chose to install the start menu folder instead. There is a shortcut in the start menu folder that says "run dice", clicking this should run the program.

=Overview of the program=
This program is designed with D&D players in mind. D&D is a role playing table top game that is largely governed by rolling dice. the players create their characters using chance to some degree by rolling dice to learn things like how lucky their new character will be. It might benefit others also, however. It is a farely advanced accessible )partialy sself voicing) dice rolling program that can roll either single or multiple ddice (up to 30 at once) of various sides (2 to 100). It has been designed to be entuitive and give access to each individual result when rolling multiple dice, allowing the user to reroll several dice at once (rerolling the 1's), or reroll one dice at a time if so desired. The program also includes 12 preset dierolls. These allow the user to enter one keystroke or click one button to roll a particular dieroll. Various choices go anywhere from 1 die with 4 sides to 4 dice with 6 sides. the program is written in Autoit3, and is 100 percent accessible with JAWS and NVDA by my tests. It is more than likely accessible with any other screen reader that could be thrown at it also, however, that includes Microsoft Narrator.

The program should run well on windows xp, but I expect it to work just fine on vista win7 32 and 64 bit, and maybe even windows98. Not positive about the windows98 bit though. the program is fully portable. this means after installing the program the user can copy the installed folder from program files and put it on a flash drive and take the dice program with them on the go if need be. An .ini file is used to save the settings for the program, so even the settings made to the program will travel with the portable version (no registry involved what so ever).

==The main dialogue==
We will go through each control on the main dialogue of the program and give an explanation of them.

===The dice combo box===
This combo box is located in the top left of the program. It is used to select how many dice are to be rolled.

When first launched, the program shows "dice" hhere, Change the value of this combo box to something else like 1 to roll one die or 6 to roll 6 dice at once. When using preset dierolls, this combo box is automatically updated to reflect how many dice the preset dieroll used..

===The sides combo box===
This combo box is located in the top center of the program. It is used to select how many sides the die or dice will have when rolling. When first launched, this combo box will say "sides". Select something else like 2 to roll 2 sided dice or 6 to roll 6 sided dice. When using preset dierolls, this combo box is automatically updated to reflect how many sides the preset dieroll used.

===The results combo box===

===The roll button===

===The reroll button===

===The reroll all button===

===The preset dieroll buttons===

==The menus==

===The dice menu===

====Speech on?====

====speak sub menu====

=====Speak dice=====

=====Speak sides=====

=====Speak total results=====

=====Speak each result=====

====Speak each dice when rolling multiple?====

====Speak each dice when rerolling multiple?====

====Novice mode?====

====Exit====

===The help menu===

====Documentation====

PKBDocumentation

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Welcome!

=What is this?=
This section links to documentation we have for one or more of our PKB group projects. Should any PKB Group members desire an account on this wiki in order to be able to write documentation here for their own projects, I may create one if asked.

=Project documentation links=
[[diceDocumentation]]
Documentation for the PKB Dice program which I wrote myself.

--[[User:Valiant8086|Valiant8086]] 03:50, 25 January 2010 (EST)

ClanHavoc

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Welcome to Clan havoc 

[http://valiant8086.x-sight-interactive.net/games/muds/hclan Go to our homepage]
=What is this?=
This page contains various information about the events organized and done by Clan havoc

=events=
==Builder silliness: January 17, 2010==
This event was planned and hosted by lexie. Clan members were given one room each that they could edit. On January 17, 2010 we took a grand tour of the clan area, examining each of these rooms carefully. After the tour was over everyone voted who they thought was the best builder in eachof five categories. The categories were: Most creative, most comfortable, most in keeping with the clan history, most humorous, and most creative use of extras (doors etc).

Participants were Brynn, Cheetah, Colonel, Ishark, Locane and Zogg.

The winners were:

*Most creative: Zogg
*Most Comfortable: Cheetah
*Most In Keeping with the Clan history: Colonel
*Most Humorous: Locane
*Most use of extras (doors etc): Zogg

The elders concluded that more members than we were expecting actually joined in. We ran out of doors before we were finished and Colonel had to do without. Colonel decided her room made more sense to go without a door so that worked out ok fortunately. In fact the whole clan participated except two people. Everyone did a pretty darned good job, and we had quite a bit of fun walking around making fun at one another's room. Especially Ishark's, who's formatting made Locane, our only sighted clannie who participated, "go up in smoke" as I put it, threatening to claw out his eyes. We got a hoot out of that. Locane's own room was really amuzing, most of the words starting with the letter "l".

Zogg's room impressed everyone. People kept telling him he should become a professional poet.

==Rescue Gahan: December 18, 2009==
no information is available right now

==Kill all the clannies!: December 18, 2009==
This event was planned and hosted by Lexie and Mathayas. It was esentially a giant free for all "go kill your clannies as hard and fast as you can! Last standing is the winner" type thing.

The event took place in the clan area, where the elders had previously walked through raising noRecall flags on every room and inserted a door that prevented clannies from walking into clan recall to safety. The plan was to keep fighting the event running until there was one person aside from the 3 judges left outside of recall.

The judges were Gahan, Mathayas and Lexie. These 3 were chosen because they were higher level than everyone else and we wanted to keep the event fare.

The participants in the event were Colonel, Ishark, Locane and Zogg.

We walked out of recall and closed the door sealing the way back to recall. We then gave everyone a certain amount of time to get ready. Lexie counted off the time and when the time was up she shouted out for everyone to get going. Clannies scattered in all directions and started tearing one another into tiny little pieces suitable to be fed to, well, let's just say the pk event was off in full force!

the judges tried to wander around staying in separate rooms from other judges and watching the clannies to try and record how the event went. there was lots of moving about. In fact the only person who didn't move that we noticed was locane. He wasn't quite ready when the time came and he got caught a little flat footed by that, but managed to stay alive for a pretty long time by using restoration mana orbs. Locane was the first to go down.

Next to go down was Colonel, who had been softened up by Locane.

Next was Ishark, leaving Zogg the last standing and first place winner!

The order of winners were:
*First place: Zogg: prise was 35000 gold
*Second place: Ishark: prise was 20000 gold
*third place: colonel: prise was 15000 gold
*forth place: Locane: prise was 10000 gold

This event hasn't been fully documented yet. Information may be inaccurate

Clan Havoc Events

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'''Welcome to the wiki!'''

= What is this? =
This wiki contains lots of different things from documentation for various projects to clan events for Alter Aeon. Basically this wiki is used for about anything I work with where I want others to be able to contribute.

=Navigation:=
[[MTScripts]]
Documentation for MTScripts, soundpacks and such for the MonkeyTerm mud client.

[[PKBDocumentation]]
PKB Group project documentation.

[[clanHavoc]]
The events for the clan on Alter Aeon called Havoc.