Zugg Software :: View topic - Help with ismember and trigger reductions

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

Alright, I play achaea, and I color the names of those who are my enemies... As of now I have a bunch of individual triggers set to color each name, what I want to do is put those names in a list variable and make a single trigger to work to color the names ANY time they appear... can this be done? One instance would be on the WHO list:

Nephcir, Tolaria, Kottke, Fulcrum, Constinence, Halia, Mavik, Siaran, Ariadne,Torn, Cenadrak, Istavan, Zythe, Aragor, Meiros, Rontar, Bainz, Miric, Keltarrn, Mendar, Nihltas, Larkin, Rystal, Wolfacill, Aneila, Alynnia, Lepida, Maeko, Caz, Vieral, Tael, Vymos, Jinga, Belafon, Ixthkin, Hylonomus, Soahar, Eirefal, Agrias, Ydachikachishiroul, Dethea, Janiv, Mayaserenia, Hrael, Laorir, Jamethiel, Kazekaoru, Gerohold, Rumius, Delliah, Laze, Maybelle, Gulnic, Greyda, Sunter, Aydlithian, Coptimus,

Which looks much like that, other times would be in passing such as if they enter the room or are even spoken about...

HELP! If it can be done please tell me how!

Magician Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 459 Location: USA

This particular forum is about features/bugs/questions about the new forum system.

If a moderator can bump this to the appropriate group or you could repost in the zMUD General Discussion Forum that'd be great.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Combining multiple triggers into one with a string list is useful for certain scenarios, but not something like the QWHO list. That one trigger will only fire once per line, so if you have two or more names to match on any given line, you'll only get one of them. I know. I used to do a buddy list using a string list and it often missed names. Switching to individual triggers for the names solved this problem, and I just keep the folders disabled until I execute QWHO.

Magician Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 358 Location: USA

While Larkin is right that combining may not always work, your question is valid, and the answer may be something you want to use elsewhere. Here's the solution you're looking for:

Begin with a string list (or 2 or 3) of names you want to highlight, using the pipe delineater:

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

thanks GC, helped alot, I have one more question though, one of the skills I have allows me to see people who enter my area of attacking range. It shows their names and titles as well so it makes triggering certain events based on who enters a little difficult. The line could look like this:

Joe has entered the area.

OR this:

Genius Joe Schmoe has entered the area.

Both of these meaning the same person but that person has changed his title. Is there anyway to isolate 'Joe' and make it say.. change a variable (my targetting variable) based on that name?

Wanderer Joined: 02 Oct 2001 Posts: 76 Location: USA

try

#trigger {^Joe (*)has entered the area.} {DoNaughtyThingsTo Joe) {KillPeopleClass}

or

#trigger {(*)Joe (*)has entered the area.} {DoNaughtyThingsTo Joe) {KillPeopleClass}

i think that if there is a name before Joe like Genius that you have to use the second one, no first name the first. i think that the second one my be universal though... give it a shot, i know it will set off your trigger tho

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

Thanks Apollyon, but I was actually looking to do it with the string list variable created and used via GC's method...

Anyone have any idea??

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

Alright I got the trigger line to work off the string list variable, however my next question is how do I isolate WHICH item on the list was the one that set off the trigger and make it tell me that? here is the pattern:

(*){@enemies}(*)has entered the area.

the commands on that are to highlight the line and then i need it to do something like this:

say (whoever the enemy is) in the area!
((and then set my target variable to that name))

any idea?

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:09 am

#trigger {({@enemies})*has entered the area.} {#say %1 is in the area!;#var Target %1}

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

tried that, doesn't register @enemies as a %1 variable...

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:22 am

It isn't the same trigger as the one you posted. I added a pair of brackets around the {@enemies}. This will set the matching value of @enemies to the %1 variable.

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

the brackets were already there in my trigger and i tried your way as well, not working

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:04 am

I'll show you how it works, then. Put all this in the command line:

#var Enemies {Danlo}
#trigger {({@enemies})*has entered the area.} {#col Red;#say %1 is in the area!;#var Target %1}
#say Danlo has entered the area.

Beginner Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 15 Location: USA

I don't know why, but now it works. The only thing I changed was the * at the beginning... thanks Danlo

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