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Newbie Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Canada

I just recently started playing around with buttons, and stumbled into the following problem.
I have a toggle button that is supposed to show if I am presently affected by a spell. Button is controlled by a variable, and some simple trigs change the variable. When the spell is cast - button presses in. Spell wears off - button de-presses.
I also wanted to add a command to a depressed button, so that I can cast the said spell by clicking it. And this is when I begun having a problem. Suppose some nice fella decided to save me some sp, and cast the spell for me. The trigger catches it, presses in the button, and ends up casting the spell, even though I don't need it any more.
Is there any way I can 'persuade' the button to execute command only when manually clicked, and not pressed in with the variable change ?

Here I have the trigs (slightly edited for simplicity)

#BUTTON 2 {PoE off} {cast power of earth at cezar} {PoE on} {} {} {poe} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} {} "" {} {} {poe_button}
#TRIGGER {You bulge with power!} {#var poe 1 } "powerups"
#TRIGGER {You feel weaker as the power of Earth leaves you.} {#var poe 0} "powerups"

Thanks in advance

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Nope. If the button has a command to execute, it will execute it either way.

Novice Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Philippines

make an alias on your spell ups (if its long) or just manually type c <spell> and trigger on spell up/down phrase, that way your button will be on its right state regardless of the person/npc spelling you up.

you can also make a recast key that contains a bunch of IFs that checks every spellup button and if its off, it casts that particular spellup. of course your mud might have the "loose concentration routine even if your not interrupted" w/c is a pain, but you can always press the key again after its done. :)