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Newbie Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

I have a script running that continues to do the same thing over and over and over again, it constantly calls its self at the end of the script. So In essence:

// ALIAS NAME IS mirror //

// This is the walking path
.mirrorruns

// This is the alias I call to do my skill ups
skillups

// This is the alias I call to attack a creature
killdark

// Reverse Walking Path
..mirrorruns

// Call Mirror Alias Again
mirror

Now I know its not exactly clean but it works about 5 times then stops, how do I get around that?

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

You cannot just keep calling an alias within itself without ever stopping. When you call an alias from another alias, execution of the first alias is suspended until the second alias finished. This means that the first alias is still in memory. The way you are doing it, all instances of the mirror alias will remain in memory because it just keeps calling itself. Eventually, zMUD runs out of what is called stack memory (which is a portion of memory given to a program to hold information necessary for calling functions) and you get an error message.

What you need to do is change the way you are doing what you want. If you need this process to keep repeating itself forever, then what you could do is setup a trigger that would fire on some line in the last room after ..mirrorruns finished and does the commands once more. Another option is to set-up a temporary alarm after killdark finished that would call the mirror again. Or, you could put the code inside a regular alarm that would keep getting called every X amount of seconds.

Newbie Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

I just used a variable called #VAR mirrordone

When the runs were finished I would chage the value to 1
then I had an alarm to check when the value was changed to 1 and it would run it all over again