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Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 40

sorry to keep asking questions on here, i just cant find it in the helpfiles...
ive got an alias that has the #WAIT command in it, and i was wondering if there was something else that i could put into an alias to stop all the #WAIT commands to come...
for example, the alias has me saying something every 9 seconds, but sometimes i have to stop or else ill die, so i need something to cut it off....any suggestions?

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

Simple DON'T Use #WAIT unless you know and understand how it works.

http://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=zmud/timers.htm

use #ALARMs instead they are MUCH more flexible.

Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 40

oooh thanks... but still, is there a way to make it stop when i have to? i read the #ALARM stuff but i didn't see anything like that

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 226

give the alarm an name (id) and then use

#T- alarmid

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 226

Or if you want the time counted down to be kept, #SUSPEND alarmid works too

Novice Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 40

thanks!

Beginner Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 28

Ok, I've change one part of my script to use alarm, but the problem I have is this
How do I make it so it will not create another alarm if one already exist?
so there will never be two of the same alarm exist at one time, I need to somehow prevent my trigger from ever having two at the same time (this flood the server and gets me kicked out).

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Refering to the alarm by Name (ID), and including path/classname when creating an alarm should work. zMud will not create two alarms with the same name in the same class

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

You can safely use #WAIT in aliases, the problems arise when you put them in triggers since a #WAIT in a trigger stops all processing for the duration of the wait (and anything that's happened in the meantime is then dumped on you all at one time). However, #WAIT is still not a good idea; it's like trying to code in object-oriented VB using the ancient, linear setup of ANSI-BASIC using GOTOs and line numbers.