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Newbie Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 9 Location: New Zealand

Is there a way to use 'onwalkend' inside an alias and only for that alias?

For example, I have been guided by this helpfile http://www.zuggsoft.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12055&SearchTerms=onwalkend

#ALIAS {walk} {brief on;#WALK 2735;#ALIAS onwalkend {brief off}}

In my example I have altered it to walk to a set room. It works brilliantly for the alias, but also sends 'brief off' everytime I speedwalk using the map. I only want the command (eg 'brief off') to be sent when I am using this alias. I aim to chain further commands after the alias walk is completed, but don't want them occuring after every speedwalk.

Newbie Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 9 Location: New Zealand

Hold up...

Had been trying this in offline mode. It actually works smoothly in 'real world' practice. In an sequence I already had set up, I simply added the following items on the next lines after my #Walk command ...

#AL onwalkend
#ECHO Action

I have a trigger in the room script to take certain actions when it sees the 'Action' text. It seemed to me that although I saw the ECHO onscreen long before I arrived at my destination (which is what was confusing me), Zmud still processes the commands in order so Echo is delivered into the right room.

Sorry for posting then answering my own question. Hope this might help someone else who might make the same mistake/misconception though.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

The problem is that the alias is defined permanently, so it will affect other walks. A walk-around, like you mentioned, is to clear the alias for each walk. You can also create a kind of "temporary" alias by having it delete itself once it fires:
#ALIAS onwalkend {brieff off;#UNALIAS onwalkend}

This is untested, but in theory, it should work.