Zugg Software :: View topic - Database Records constantly reverting to Auto-type after manipulated by an Alias

Beginner Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 11

I just jumped back into working on my 3/4 completed cmud curing system after a year and a half hiatus. It was all working (mostly) when I left... the only difference on my end is a new laptop with Vista instead of XP (all the previous scripting was on an XP machine). Here's my problem:

I have an alias called 'afflicted' which gets called by triggers when I get afflicted with something. The 'afflicted' alias checks through some Database Records using %iskey in order to figure out what to do about my current affliction. My problem is that every time 'afflicted' is called, it changes the Database Record variable it modifies, into an Auto-Type. I'm finding that once a Database Record is called Auto-Type, %iskey does not work on it. I was initially having a problem with 'afflicted' not working at all and realized that when I go through and change those records from Auto-Type to Database Record, everything works fine and it tries to do the cure... once or twice. Then it stops trying to do the cure and when I check the corresponding database record, the affliction is still set to '0' as if it has been cured. I found that the database was being called Auto-Type so I changed it back to Database Record and then 'afflicted' worked again. Unfortunately these errors seem to be kind of random because now when I reset the database variable to Database Record, 'afflicted' still produces no results and the record is reset to Auto-Type.

For instance if I get poisoned by the Voyria venom (this is achaea) the trigger calls: 'afflicted voyria' which does this:

#IF ($aff==aeon) {aeon=1}
#IF (%iskey(@smokeAfflictions,$aff)) {#VAR smokeAfflictions.$aff 1;smokequeue}
#IF (%iskey(@salveAfflictions,$aff)) {#VAR salveAfflictions.$aff 1;salvequeue}
#IF (%iskey(@eatAfflictions,$aff)) {#VAR eatAfflictions.$aff 1;eatqueue}
#IF (%iskey(@miscAfflictions,$aff)) {#VAR miscAfflictions.$aff 1;drinkqueue}
checkAffs

In this case Voyria will be in the @miscAfflictions database so it should change it's value from 0 to 1 and run 'drinkqueue' which will do this:

#IF (!@sleeping&&!@stunned&&!@aeon&&!@salveAfflictions.anorexia) {#IF @miscAfflictions.voyria {si}}

after all that it runs the 'checkAffs' alias which looks like this:

$smokeAffs=@smokeAfflictions
$salveAffs=@salveAfflictions
$eatAffs=@eatAfflictions
$damLimbs=@damagedLimbs
$miscAffs=@miscAfflictions

#LOOPDB $smokeAffs {#IF (%val) {#ADDI currentAffs %key} {#DELI currentAffs %key}}
#LOOPDB $salveAffs {#IF (%val) {#ADDI currentAffs %key} {#DELI currentAffs %key}}
#LOOPDB $eatAffs {#IF (%val) {#ADDI currentAffs %key} {#DELI currentAffs %key}}
#LOOPDB $damLimbs {#IF (%val) {#ADDI currentAffs %key} {#DELI currentAffs %key}}
#LOOPDB $miscAffs {#IF (%val) {#ADDI currentAffs %key} {#DELI currentAffs %key}}

That alias is just for my status window display to show me anything that hasn't been cured... I've tested without it and it changed nothing. Just put it in here for the sake of thoroughness.

So basically I'm looking at code that I believe should work, in fact I KNOW has worked in the past, and scratching my head. Any thoughts?

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:04 pm

I think the problem is with the code:

Beginner Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 11

You're the man Zugg, one problem down. More to follow I'm sure :P.