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Newbie Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 5 Location: USA

In my stats monitoring, I want to keep track of when my maximums change. So I wind up with tons of statements like:

#TRIGGER {HP:....} {... #IF (@oldmaxhp != @maxhp) { #ECHO Your MaxHP just changed from @oldmaxhp to @maxhp}}

I'd like to reduce these to one function so I can say something like:
@checkValueChange(@oldmaxhp,@maxhp,"MaxHP")

and @checkValueChange would be defined something like this:
#FUNC checkValueChange { #IF (%1 != %2) { #ECHO Your %3 changed from %1 to %2 }}

But trying something like that directly just winds up sending strings to the mud that are an expansion of my function rather than actually executing my function. I played around with various combinations of #EXEC and #EVAL and couldn't get that to do what I am trying to do either.

This seems so basic, so I think I am just missing a big Zmud concept. If anyone can enlighten me, I'd be extremely grateful.

Thanks,
-Valodin

Wanderer Joined: 08 Feb 2001 Posts: 89 Location: USA

What you're looking to do is not the role of a function in zMUD. Functions in zScript are more like Pascal functions than C functions if you're a programmer.. Functions return values. Since you just want to execute some code, an alias is more appropriate here. Just change your function to be an alias, and you should be good to go.

Wil

Wil Hunt