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Newbie Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 5 Location: nyc

Hello all! How do I set up a trigger to start a 30 second timer, then to send a command?

Thanks in advance.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Newbie Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 5 Location: nyc

i truly appreciate it. how can i modify the trigger so that it only sends the command once?

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

You mean send it once after 30 seconds and then never again until you re-enable it?

Just add the #t- 30second_timer at the end of command part.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

If you want to make a one-off timer, that is, a timer that only fires onces and then vanishes.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:12 am

See also #alarm. If you've found the #wait command, I'll say right now that the only time you should use it is to slow down a loop, like:

#loop 50 {dance;#wait 5000}

The #wait command in zMUD can cause problems if you use it in triggers or aliases. You should use #alarm instead.

Newbie Joined: 20 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

Could something like this be utilized in a status window? For example.. I have a command I want to send every 5 seconds or so that updates my sensor reports (TrekMUSH)
Now I know I can do this as a simple trigger, but it would clutter up my display. It would be more efficient to put it into a Status Window I could have docked somewhere.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

You can of course send the output to another window. Using :windowname:cmd

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:50 am

And you can display a variable in the status window that you update with a new value to be displayed whenever you like. Just use an alarm to change the variable.