Zugg Software :: View topic - Canceling a Trigger before it completes itself.

Newbie Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 2

Hi. Suppose I had a trigger that goes off when someone says hello to me. However, built into this trigger is a wait command. The trigger will wait 10 seconds before it makes me say hello back. How could I make it so that this trigger will stop itself before it goes through if the person leaves the room before those 10 seconds are up?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

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Hi. Suppose I had a trigger that goes off when someone says hello to me. However, built into this trigger is a wait command. The trigger will wait 10 seconds before it makes me say hello back. How could I make it so that this trigger will stop itself before it goes through if the person leaves the room before those 10 seconds are up?

Your only option is to use a state variable which gets set to true in the hello trigger and set to false in the trigger that matches them leaving.

#trigger {(%w) says to you, "Hello"} {Target.name = %1;#wait 1000;#if (@Target.present) {say %1 Hello} {#noop target not present}}

#trigger {@Target.name leaves *.} {Target.present = 0}

Because of how #WAIT works, however, I don't know how that will behave. If it doesn't work correctly, replace the hello trigger with this:

#trigger {(%w) says to you, "Hello"} {Target.name = %1;#alarm +10 {#if (@Target.present) {say %1 Hello} {#noop target not present}}}

#WAIT interferes with trigger processing (in other words, nothing processes until AFTER the #WAIT expires), while #ALARM does not.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Newbie Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 2

What does the #noop do?

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1116 Location: USA

Straight from the help file:

Does nothing! (Wow, what a powerful command). Actually, it *does* expand its parameters, so its a useful way to execute a function and throw away the result

See the #CALL command for a better way to execute function calls.

Help file is your friend! ;)

Iljhar