Zugg Software :: View topic - #IF in macro not working, always acting as if it is true, worked fine in zmud:(

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:01 am

i have MULT do this macro

#IF {@snipermag=1} {~shr @targetname} {~sh @targetname}

so if the sniper rifle magazine has less than 1 when I shoot it does a shoot then reload, otherwise just normal shoot - this worked fine in Zmud, but now in Cmud it just always acts if it is true, I have no idea why - the variable definitely is NOT 1... :(

can anyone help?

Wanderer Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Florida

I'm not sure if it would cause the expression to fail, but you should use #IF () {} {} syntax for an if statement, not #IF {} {} {}. So basically, your statement would be...

#IF (@snipermag=1) {~shr @targetname} {~sh @targetname}

If it doesn't solve the problem, hopefully you'll get that resolved... but otherwise, proper syntax is always a good thing :)

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:18 am

thanks that fixed it :D

Apprentice Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 166

How wierd. For me

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Yeah, but the problem is that for some reason if your expression changed to false, it was still showing the true response.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The reason this happens is because the braces {} treat the content as an expandable string. After the expansion is done then it is looked at by the #IF. Being a string the expression is considered true for anything that isn't %null.

All of these will show true all the time:
#IF {1} {true}
#IF {0} {true}
#IF {-1} {true}
#IF {0=1} {true}
This is what they convert to:
#IF ("1") {true}
#IF ("0") {true}
#IF ("-1") {true}
#IF ("0=1") {true}

The only one that would be false is:
#IF {} {true} {false}

That is a really long way of saying CMud is much more strict about writing the scripts correctly, and the use of braces for the expression portion of an #IF has always been wrong.