Trigger/Timer Assistance

Posted by Narcs on Tue 12 Mar 2019 05:02 PM — 4 posts, 16,804 views.

Narcs United Kingdom Tue 12 Mar 2019 05:02 PM #0

Hello! Returned to MUDs after a while and trying to set something up for one of my games.

I want to trigger a timer to run after a certain action, which will create a notification after so long:

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Trigger:



  <trigger
   custom_colour="9"
   enabled="y"
   make_italic="y"
   make_underline="y"
   match="*Thaum cast begun!*"
   name="ThaumTick"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>EnableTimer("ThaumTimer", true)</send>
  </trigger>

Timer:



  <timer name="ThaumTimer" enabled="y" minute="7" second="0.00" offset_second="0.00"    send_to="12"
>
  <send>Sound ("250770__ninafoletti__river-waterfall-2.wav")
ColourNote ("#9932CC", "black", "GP is filled up and ready to go!")
FlashIcon ()
EnableTimer("ThaumTimer", false)</send>

  </timer>

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If I run this, it will work fine and as expected, will trigger the timer to be enabled and then display/play the notifications and disabled the timer after 7 minutes. If I run again, the timer runs immediately. Run a third time, works as expected.

Anyone able to point out what I'm doing wrong? Probably something glaring..

Thanks in advance.

Fiendish USA Global Moderator Tue 12 Mar 2019 10:17 PM #1

Reset the timer after you enable it in your trigger.

You should also set enabled="n" in the timer so that it doesn't run when you start up mushclient.

Narcs United Kingdom Wed 13 Mar 2019 01:31 AM #2

Nice one bud, added a reset to the trigger action, after it enables and that sorted the job!

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Wed 13 Mar 2019 02:54 AM #3

Also see this:

ResetTimer

The documentation for the ResetTimer script function is available online. It is also in the MUSHclient help file.

You have to enable it before resetting it.

I mention this because other people reading this thread may not have realized the significance of the order of doing things.