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Novice Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 48

I should know this already and I'm almost embarrassed to have to ask these questions but I’ve been around the help files a couple of times, tested and worked in this myself about 10 times and then gave up and decided to resort to embarrassment.

Firstly, I want to create a trigger that says,

You’ve lost concentration when casting (spellname)!
Or sometimes
You’ve lost concentration when casting (spellname) (spellname) (spellname)!

And I want to extract the (spellname) text and trigger it to say:

Cast (spellname)
Or
Cast (spellname) (spellname) (spellname)

I’ve tried several variations so far… The last one which I gave up on was:

{You lost your concentration while casting %{spell}!}

cast %spell

or

{You lost your concentration while casting %spell1 %{spell2}!}

cast %spell1 %spell2

Any ideas because I’ve given up already :-P

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Another point before I go.

I wanted to know if there was a way to extract the hitpoint value, determine if it is lesser then a figure and if so, do an action. I know this illegal on some muds and I cannot deny my ability to possibly use this to illegal ends (which I know will be brought up guys so just shush!) but on some muds its not and also can be used for other valuable possibilitys.

i.e. prompt goes:

{375/375hp}{544/650m}{339/362mv}

Tigger to

{%hpval/375hp}{544/650m}{339/362mv} (or whatever the proper variable is for this, I don’t know)

If %hpval < 50 then cast word of recall

It’s a little like basic here but wanted to know if this is possible in the realm of Zmud. Thanks

- Winslow

Novice Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 48

Sorry, one more question...

What's the command, inside a trigger, to disable or enable another trigger?

i.e. #triggeroff Joe has arrived.
#triggeron Joe has arrived.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:21 am

Take a look at the help file for #trigger - there's a link to a help file in there called pattern matching, and it describes the wildcards you can use in your triggers. What you're looking for is this:

#trig {You’ve lost concentration when casting (*)!} {cast %1}

%1 matches the first wildcard. * will match any number of any character, so it'll match both the words and the spaces.

Your second question is a bit more complicated because {} are special characters when used in a trigger pattern. You need to quote them out by putting a ~ before them.

#trig {~{(%d)/%dhp~}~{%d/%dm~}~{%d/%dmv~}} {#if (%1 < 50) {cast word of recall}}

%d matches any number - only the ones in brackets have their values assigned to a %n variable.

Finally, the command to turn a trigger on and off is #T+ and #T-. You can actually use this to turn off any kind of setting - read the help file for it. You can give each trigger an ID. If you're defining them on the command line it goes before the pattern:

#trig "SomeTrigger" {Pattern to match} {commands to execute}

#t- SomeTrigger
#t+ SomeTrigger

You can also use the pattern of the trigger to specify it.

Novice Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 48

Wow, works like magic. Thanks a load.

- Winslow

Novice Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 48

Okay, another question which would be of triffic use if I could figure this out:

On this mud there are several continents. I think I have figured out how to load into a variable what cont I’m on and keep that always updated.

I wanted to make a alias so that when I recall, I automatically walk into the hospital for that continent. Obviously there are different paths for different conts. Wanted to know if there is a command that works something like this:

Cast word of recall
If @cont = cont1 then

2s
2e
etc, etc, etc
end if

if @cont = cont2 then

2e
2s
erc, etc, etc
end if

Again, I’m use to basic commands and just can’t seem to translate in my head. Thanks a lot for your help

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:18 pm

Yep. You can create paths using the #record command or via the GUI. Then you just do:

#alias recall {~recall;#if (@cont="blah") {#tele 2965;.HospitalBlah};#if (@cont="lol") {#tele 12;.HospitalLol}}

and so on.