What you can and can not, and what to expect in the future.

It has always been our goal to make a client that will give you the most power possible when mudding. Power is never gained easily and like in the real world *cough* mud you will see that the same applies. Few things come very easily and you will need to work to get what you want, yeah yeah... bla bla... anyways, what i'm trying to say is, you need to take your time to learn how to use MonkeyTerm if you want to take full advantage of its powers. Much of the efford you put into it can pay off later as the time spend learning VBScript and Regular Expressions can be used later in your real life since neither of them are MonkeyTerm standarts and both are good technologies to use in software development.

VBScript is very powerfull and with it, you can create almost anything you'd want - did i say almost? Well i ment everything ofcourse, except for love and money - well perhaps money :) and i guess if you get really good at it, people will say you love it too. Ok enough rambling.
MonkeyTerm is a good core program that can fire events, parse your Regular Expressions or GLOB's and execute your VBScripts. This leaves you with the task of writing the patterns and scripts. With the scripts you can perform any Windows task but far from everyone can write VBScript. That is where you might say MonkeyTerm falls short, but if you want the computer to do something for you, you will need to tell it one way or the other, we just think that VBScript is an easy and comfortable way of doing so. If you have no plans of ever learning VBScript then don't worry, we will try to write some of the scripts we think you might want to use. Also we hope that, when MonkeyTerm becomes a bit more common, that some people will share their scripts with us by emailing them to us, the creators of MonkeyTerm so we can put them up for download on this page.

If VBScript can do anything, why isn't MonkeyTerm done yet? Well, we could make this client commandline only, but even we like a nice userinterface and some easy to use objects. Some cool things might be very hard and tedious to write in VBScript and some of those things will be hardcoded into MonkeyTerm.