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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:14 pm

I'm going to go out on a limb and say these weren't added yet.

Beginner Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

But OnTick, and OnTickWarning are both there...

Morgal

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:10 pm

Another event that would be kinda useful is OnRoomExit.. just a thought. Im presuming that onRoomWalk wont cater for that as its only speedwalk.

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:12 pm

It's simple to make your own.

#alarm 1 {#raise OnEverySecond}
#alarm **:00 {#raise OnEveryMinute}
#alarm **:00:00 {#raise OnEveryHour}

You could also add - in front of the patterns to make it OnEveryConnectedSecond or something - much easier to customise. Which might be why they aren't in in the first place.

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:21 pm

is that aimed at me Fang? i have no clue how that fits in if it is :) lol sorry.. noob aura

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:25 pm

No, to Morgal asking about time-based events :)

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:31 pm

lol cool.. i was feeling more noob than normal

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:50 pm

I did not add all of the events talked about in this thread. Please see the #EVENT documentation for the events that are currently defined. More will be added over time, but not for the public version.

Beginner Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

Yes, i know how to make an alarm, but the idea is that events remove the need for the various common alarms else why would Zugg have put them in rather than just saying "Use an alarm."

Morgal

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:14 am

Remember that this thread was created when we were initially tossing around various ideas. The EverySecond, etc event were not implemented because the alarm system is more flexible, and I was trying not to duplicate existing functionality. The main purpose of Events was to replace the old "atconnect" aliases. Firing an event every second would slow down CMUD...using Alarms is much more efficient.

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:16 am

The impression I got was that pre-defined events were there for behaviour that couldn't be done simply by any other method - OnConnect, OnDisconnect, OnTick and the others are all examples of those. Since it's so simple to create an OnEveryXXXX event using current scripting, I'd rather CMUD didn't create one by default. It'd clog up the list of pre-defined events with ones you don't really need to have pre-defined.

EDIT: Simultaneous postin', baby. You and me. Bah-bah!

Beginner Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 26

Right, well alarms it is. The only reason i even bothered digging it up was because i knew it had been said. Ahh well... clearly i should just learn to forget stuff.

Morgal