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Beginner Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 27

I have two necklaces. One amber, one silver.

When I type 'remove amber necklace' or 'remove silver necklace', I want a trigger which will automatically execute 'put amber necklace in belt pouch' or 'put silver necklace in belt pouch', respectively.

I messed about with a 'command input' trigger like this:

Pattern: remove (*) necklace
Value: put %1 necklace in belt pouch

It caused Zmud to crash. ;) What am I doing wrong?

- Ren

Novice Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 37

you don't need a trigger for that
especially not a "(*)" one .. it's to slow

try to solve it with an alias.

Beginner Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 27

I could use an alias, but I don't want to have to remember different ones for every different necklace I have.

> especially not a "(*)" one .. it's to slow

What do you mean by (*) being slow? What would be a fast substitute? This is interesting. I didn't know there were parsing speed differences. Please elaborate? :)

Thanks.

- Ren

Novice Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 37

you need a lot of computing to parse patterns with placeholders like (*) .. try to avoid placeholders if possible.
also try to specify your pattern as exact as possible .e.g in your case replace (*) with (%w) "%w matches any number of alpha characters (a-z) (a word)"

you're right, you can't do it with an alias .. sorry for that disinformation
but this on-input-trigger works fine:

#ONINPUT {remove (%w) necklace} {remove %1 necklace;put %1 necklace in belt pouch} "" {notrig}

the same one as pattern/value/options
pattern:
remove (%w) necklace
value:
remove %1 necklace;put %1 necklace in belt pouch
options
Trigger on Trigger = NO

!!! IMPORTANT !!! uncheck the "trigger on trigger" check box @"trigger options" or zmud will crash like you said .. because of endless trigger loop.

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

This is fairly easy if you do it for everything.
#AL remove {~remove %-1;put %-1 in belt pouch}

Limiting it to necklaces makes it more difficult.
#AL remove {#IF (%ends( "%-1", " necklace")) {~remove %-1;put %-1 in belt pouch} {~remove %-1}}

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