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Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 120

Hi

I was thinking of combining all similar triggers, but I'm not sure if it is advicable or will it slow down my P3 computer.

For example

#TR {You are hungry|You are thirsty|The sun sets in the west|...} #NOMAP

There are about 50 triggers together. Should I merge all trigger into one?

Toy

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:08 pm

#VAR nomap {item1|item2|ect}
#TR {{@nomap}} {#NOMAP}

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

I would just leave them all in a class together, I don't see a real reason for combining them.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:49 pm

shalimar's got the right idea.
tho i have to ask, why would you #nomap being hungry, thirsty or seeing the sun set?

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

It probably wouldn't hurt to combine a few, but having to expand a trigger 50 times on every single line probably will show a much more noticeable performance hit. As for why you'd #NOMAP them, it'd be for when you are mapping. All of those are game messages that appear at set intervals and it's possible that sometimes they'd coincide with when ZMud is looking for room information.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:25 pm

So is it easier for it to check 50 different triggers the an a single trigger off an array of 50? (numbers subject to change)

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The difference in speed is that all 50 triggers are preregistered and can be eliminated very rapidly. When using a variable list the trigger has to be expanded and registered each time it is checked. List elimination is nearly equal in speed to multiple trigger elimination in most REGEX implementations. So if your are looking for both speed and ease of use I would reccommend a few fixed triggers that group the messages, then dump them in the System|Automapper class so they are only active when you are mapping.

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 4:27 pm