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Beginner Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 19

Hi there,

Here is what I'm trying to accomplish. On a MUD I play, zones idle, and the way you can check to see if a zone is idle is to send a tell to a mob in it. So, for example, if I wanted to see if the chessboard was idle,

tell pawn hello

no-one here by that name. <----- means the zone is idle
you tell a pawn, 'hello' <------ means the zone is not idle

Now, there are about 20 zones that I check very often to see if they are idle. I do this by simply using an alias to send a tell to each of the 20 monsters, and saying their name outloud right after I send them a tell, so if it says 'nobody here by that name' I know which monster /zone is idle.

I want to write code that will have the result of showing me in a new pop up window which zones are idle. The *only* way that I can come up with doing this is:

Make a seperate trigger class for EACH of the 20 monsters. Each class will be defaulted to on. Each class will have a exec that turns all the other classes except itself off, then sends a tell to the specified mob. IF I get 'no-one here by that name', then a variable defined for that mob is set to true, and if I get "you tell (whatever) hello", then the variable is set to false, and the trigger class is turned off.
Then, open up a new window set up to show all true variables from this list.

Now, obviously this is a very roundabout way of doing this, but I can't figure out how to do it more efficently, since 'no-one here by that name' is the response you get from *any* mob that is idle. Can someone help me out with my concept and code? Thank you.

Sorry if this was hard to understand - if you have questions I'll answer them. Thanks again for your time in advance!
-Omni

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

This code does what you are saying. I may have gotten it exactly backwards but it should be relatively easy to understand once you look at it.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Because I didn't want you to have to enter in EVERY mobs name into the trigger I left the matching pattern a * if you wanted you could make it a list or even a list variable.

#var mobs {mob1|mob2|mob3|mob4}

#TRIGGER "zCheckNI" {you tell a {@mobs}, 'hello'} {#addkey zones @czone {(%item( %db( @zones, @czone), 1)|0)};cZonesA} "ZoneCheck" {disable}

Anyway, because of this it would be a good idea if you did not speak to anyone until the script is through running. It should run rather quickly anyway.

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:06 pm

Seems like a very long-winded way to do it. Why not just:

#var MobList {pawn|haddock|santa}
#alias CheckZones {#t+ MobList;#forall @MobList {tell %i hello};#var TempMobList @MobList;#alarm +3 {#t- MobList;#say The following mobs did not respond:;#forall @TempMobList {#say %i}}}
#trig "MobList" {You tell ({@MobList}) hello} {#delitem TempMobList %1} "" {disable}

If you wanted to give the name of the zone and not the name of the mob, you could use a dbvar instead like this:

#var MobList ""
#additem MobList pawn "The Chessboard"
#additem MobList haddock "The Fishpond"
#additem MobList santa "Santa's Grotto"

#alias CheckZones {#t+ MobList;#var TempMobList "";#loopdb @MobList {tell %key hello;#additem TempMobList %key};#alarm +3 {#t- MobList;#say "The following zones are idle:";#forall @TempMobList {#say %db(@MobList,%i)}}}
#trig "MobList" {You tell ({@MobList}) hello} {#delitem TempMobList %1} "" {disable}

Beginner Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 19

Working to integrate this now. Thank you for your assistance, I'll post again later on tonight with my results!
-Omni

Beginner Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 19

Fang,

I'm working on this now, and the problem I'm having is it tells me every mob did not respond, even if they do get sent a tell. Something I noticed, my syntax on my mud is:

you tell santa, 'hello'

instead of

you tell santa hello

So I modified your script thusly:
#var MobList {pawn|haddock|santa}
#alias CheckZones {#t+ MobList;#forall @MobList {tell %i hello};#var TempMobList @MobList;#alarm +3 {#t- MobList;#say The following mobs did not respond:;#forall @TempMobList {#say %i}}}
#trig "MobList" {You tell ({@MobList}), 'hello'} {#delitem TempMobList %1} "" {disable}

That is to say, the only thing I changed was adding comma and single quotes in the trigger in the bottom line, to reflect the proper syntax of my mud. This still doesn't make it work though.

Also, what does #T- do, does this turn off the trigger itself? I thought you could only turn off trigger classes.
Thanks
-Omni

Beginner Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 19

I tried putting tildes~ infront of each single quote and the comma just incase ZMUD thought they wern't literals, so,

#trig "MobList" {You tell ({@MobList})~, ~'hello~'} {#delitem TempMobList %1} "" {disable}

as the last line, but this didn't work either. Do you think you could explain exactly how this trigger works? It looks to me that there is no removal of the idle mobs when @moblist is changed to @tempmoblist.

Thanks
-Omni

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

You can indeed turn on and off triggers. In fact you can turn on and off aliases as well. #T-

There were many reasons why I went with the long winded approach.

One of them is your current problem. Look at the text you are receiving from the mud. It is probably similar to the following.

You tell santa claus, 'hello'
or as you said.
You tell a pawn, 'hello'

Note the letter a before the word pawn. The trigger that you are using does not take into account that there may be other letters before and or after the word.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

The quotes are not your problem.

If the trigger actually fires then mobs are removed from the list. Your problem is that the trigger is never firing because the pattern is not correct.

Have you tried using the trigger tester tab at all?

The () around the {@MobList} capture whatever word matched, if the trigger matched, into %1 and the #deletitem TempMobList %1 would then remove the one that responded from the list.