Trigger to disable another trigger

Hi, I was wondering about one thing in the mushclient.

Is it possible to make a trigger disable another trigger?

I have battle triggers set. But as soon as I see
"You killed *" I want to disable about 4-6 triggers.

I also would like to enable them within my attack alias.


Thanks
Olaf

One other thing. Is it possible to call an alias from a trigger?


Olaf.

Disabling triggers from a trigger

Yes, you can disable triggers from within a trigger.

The trigger which does the disabling must have a label (any text would do, such as "disable_trigger").

Then you must enter the name of a script subroutine, which you put into the script file (and turn scripting on). It doesn't matter which script language you use, but I'll choose VBscript as an example. I'll assume that we call the trigger script "OnDisableTriggers" (ie. this is the name that you put in the "script" field for the trigger.

You also need to give a label to each of the triggers that need to be disabled/enabled so we can refer to them by name. I'll assume you call them "trigger1" through to "trigger6" although you would probably want to give them better names.

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Enabling triggers from an alias

Next, to enable them again you need to add a script to your attack alias. This just enables the triggers you disabled in the trigger.

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Call an alias from a trigger

No, you can't call an alias from a trigger. Why would you want to do this? An alias is supposed to simplify typing things, a trigger to react to something from the MUD.

What you could do is have both the trigger and the alias call the same script, thus they could end up doing the same thing.

There are many instances where it is nice to call an alias from a trigger. Suppose, for an example, that I have a spellup alias that checks which spells I need and resets the ones that are not on. I might want this to run every time a battle ends, which would necessitate a trigger. But, I would also want to be able to explicitly call the spellup routine whenever I want, which would necessitate an alias. The easiest way to get both of these actions is to have an alias that can be called explicitly or through the trigger.

I think you mean a function rather than an alias.

eg.



To do this you need a function (script subroutine) rather than just an alias.

Then you simply call that function from both the alias and the trigger.

Basically I am still having the same problem, I don't want to disable
triggers, I want to enable a timer via script subroutine that is set off by
a trigger


For instance i see this
* Mol retracts his right arm...

I have a trigger setup to see this:
* * retracts his right arm...

I also have it copy the second wildcard to the clipboard for other uses...

I have my trigger name as RightPunch

I have it run the SubRoutine:
OnBeingAttackedHigh

My code looks somewhat like this:
sub OnbeingAttackedHigh
world.ResetTimers
World.EnableTimer "ParryHigh", TRUE
end sub



The timer being 2 seconds and sending to the world parry high.

I also have a trigger setup that if I am successful or unsuccessful in my
parry, It also does this:

sub OnBlocking
world.ResetTimers
World.EnableTimer "ParryHigh", FALSE
end sub

You haven't mentioned what the problem is here, but I can see that these trigger scripts won't work as written, simply because triggers require three arguments. If you don't supply them, you will get a message like "cannot invoke script subroutine 'OnbeingAttackedHigh'".

Like in the earlier examples in this thread, you must word your triggers like this:

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Does this solve the problem, or is there another one?

Ok, It requires 3 things, I got the trigger name, what do you mean by triggerline, and wildcards.

Also, I have only read help files. And you are correct, Cannot invoke subroutine OnBeingAttackedHigh while processing the trigger PunchRight.

Where would I find the information for the triggerline. Is it a number? What do I put there? As for the wildcards There are 2, one of whilch is literally an * the other is name.

What I am basically getting at is, what do I put in as the triggerline, or is that what I have to put there?

I am terribly confused :|

Ok stupid is as stupid does. Ok I tried what you said, it worked almost perfectly...

Note, almost, Instead of waiting the 2 seconds that my timer is on to run the parry it sent it to the world immeaditly. how would i fix this?

You don't put things in those three arguments, they are given to you by the trigger.

TriggerName - the name of this trigger - this is so multiple triggers can share the same script, and inside the script work out which one called it.

TriggerLine - the line from the MUD that caused the trigger to fire - this is just the entire matching paragraph.

Wildcards - this is an array of 10 strings, matching the first 10 wildcards in the trigger string.



You only enabled the timer - it was running but was "dormant". It might have been near the end of its 2 seconds. You need to "reset" the timer to cause it to start counting again, eg.


world.ResetTimer "mytimer"


... although I would have thought that your "resettimers" would have worked.

I would have thought that resetting the timers would also do the same thing. However it didn't work. Also, I tried resetting the particualr timer such as you suggested

world.resettimer "TimerName"


Same effect. It still did not wait the proper time limit, I tried with several different timing settings. 2 seconds like it should be. 3, 5, and 7 seconds. The same this Kept occutring.

BTW, I really appreciate your help on this Nick.

I really should think before I post things.

I get it world.resettimer "mytimer" isn't the timer name, its the actual world timer which keeps it from continuly running in the background...

Next question is can I set a timered timer?

If after 2 seconds I don't get the responce i am looking for can I have a timer shutdown the timer than was triggered? but without that secondary timer being on at all times? Thats like a trigget to run 2 timers at once one for 2 seconds one for 3 seconds?

Sorry but I have only read help files on this stuff i have no formal training... I tried the 'mytimer' thing... Still same affect it still goes through right away


I know this can be done, there is one thing that I am over looking.

You were right the first time -


world.resettimer "timername"


does reset the timer of that name. Make sure the name you give is the label of the timer in question.

The order might be important, I would enable it first and then reset it, in case it doesn't reset disabled timers.

You could have two timers, but I'm not exactly sure why you want to. You can make a "one shot" timer that fires once and then deletes itself.

But if you want to, a trigger can do two "AddTimer" commands, one that adds a 2-second timer and one that adds a 3-second timer. In fact, this approach is more likely to work than simply enabling an existing timer.

The 3-second timer can do a "deletetimer" to get rid of the 2-second timer. However as I said, if the 2-second timer is made as a one-shot timer there is no point, it will have gone once the 2 seconds have elapsed.

Search for "addtimer" in the forum, there are a couple of example scripts for adding timers. (To search, see the link at the bottom of any forum page).

A couple of things.

Yes, It was all in the order of what I scripted, I switched them around. and it worked perfectly(minus what you will read about below)

I like the oneshot timer idea. I think that will work better.

But, Right now I am having a problem. I need the timer to go off at 1.5 seconds. 1 second is too short. 2 seconds is too long. Is it possible to make a timer that goes off at 1 and 1 half seconds? All I have seen is speedwalkdelay which is customizable, is there a way to add script to make it wait a half second before activating the timer?

Oh yeah as an after thought, I re-read your post. and it occured to me, if someone "fakes" meaning attacking once, then attacking again I will need to have the timer reset again so that before my command goes through it will start the timer over again... Also perhaps i should switch to forums now that we are talking about timers. and no longer about trigges. considering I found the answer i was looking for

Can you please post the script in question (here), and also list the details from your trigger, eg.

Trigger match:
Trigger label:
Trigger script:

Also, if you manually created a timer, the timer label, and the script name that the timer calls (plus the script itself).

Thanks.