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Beginner Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 19 Location: USA

Ok, I'm trying to make a trigger that will automatically wield my axe after I've been disarmed. The text in the game would be something like this:
"A Knight has disarmed you."
or
"A Dirty Thief has disarmed you."

I want it to trigger on "has disarmed you." but I can't get it to work. What am I doing wrong?

#TRIGGER {has disarmed you.} {WIELD AXE}

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

quote:

Ok, I'm trying to make a trigger that will automatically wield my axe after I've been disarmed. The text in the game would be something like this:
"A Knight has disarmed you."
or
"A Dirty Thief has disarmed you."

I want it to trigger on "has disarmed you." but I can't get it to work. What am I doing wrong?

#TRIGGER {has disarmed you.} {WIELD AXE}

Is this trigger enabled? What about options, is it set as prompt or newline? Any other options set? Is the little pistol icon in the lower right of your ZMud screen have a red X over it? Is the line you're triggering on really end at the period, or is there some whitespace (spaces) at the end of it?

Nothing in your post indicates a syntax problem of any sort, unless you made a typo.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Beginner Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 12 Location: USA

From my experience most MUDs when disarming a player the weapon goes to the floor in the room and not to your inventory. Your syntax looks fine so far, but I would redo the trigger to "get axe" first then wield axe So perhaps try this:

#TRIGGER {has disarmed you.} {GET AXE;WIELD AXE}

Dielantha Darshiva, Lord of the Silver Dragon - Darkmists MUD

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2000 Posts: 24 Location: USA

you may have it set to newline or prompt trigger i would try using a simple wildcard

#TR {%* has disarmed you.} {wield axe}

Morgair, Master of the Obvious

Beginner Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 19 Location: USA

Triggers are enabled, Prompt and Newline are off, and, when disarmed, the weapon is placed in your inventory, not on the floor. I'm pretty sure I already checked for blank spaces at the end, but I'll look again anyway. Thanks for your help, at least I'm not the only one who doesn't understand why it ain't work'n, lol. One thought I had was possibly using the '$' operator to force it to look at the end of the line, but while I see mention of it in help, I don't see any good explaination of it's use. Any thoughts?

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

Turn Newline back on.

These two options control when the trigger is checked. If they are both off, then it never gets checked. Therefore, it will never fire.

LightBulb
Advanced Member

Beginner Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 19 Location: USA

Thank you! That did it! I feel like an idoit, lol.