Zugg Software :: View topic - making a #cw trigger a priority over other #cw triggers

Novice Joined: 04 Jun 2002 Posts: 31

Anyone know if there's a way to make a trigger a priority over another similar trigger? I have two triggers that color individuals seperate colors. One trigger colors my current target red and the other trigger colors a group of people green. I want to make the red trigger a priority over all other color triggers, so if I have someone targetted they'll always be red.

Here's the triggers:

Current Target:
Pattern: @1
Value: #cw 12

Group color trigger:
Pattern: {Bob|Joey|Samantha|Kim}
Value: #cw 10

Right now the group trigger is taking the priority over my current target trigger. I've tried rearranging the placement of the triggers in the settings and that doesn't seem to do any good. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 141

One solution is to have your group trigger check if the match is also current target if it is not then color it.

lets say your currenttarget is in variable CURTARG

#TRIGGER {({Bob|Joey|Samantha|Kima})} {#if (%1 != @CURTARG) {#CW 10}}

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

The #CW trigger which comes last will set the color you see. To revise the order quickly, just delete the @1 trigger then remake it.

Novice Joined: 04 Jun 2002 Posts: 31

thanks lightbulb, that works great.....but (you knew there had to be a but).....it only works if all the other color triggers use the numerical value of a color (ie #cw 12 = bright red). For some reason the target trigger just won't out prioritize other trigger that color certain people using the common name listed in %colorname.

I.E.
the target trigger refuses to be dominate over a few other triggers I have that color certain people in the following colors:
wheat
darkorchid
goldenrod
cornflowerblue
etc
etc

no matter what I seem to do, I can't make the target variable trigger the dominate trigger. It works fine if a trigger uses the numerical value, but it refuses to squash triggers that use commonnames listed in %colorname. To add to the delima, it doesn't seem that those fancy common name colors have a numerical value assigned to them..at least not how zmud wants them.

Anyway, any help would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks

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

If the %colorname colors don't mix with the standard colors, then don't mix them. Decide which you want to use and do all your triggers one way or the other. It might require a lot of work now to convert triggers, but you'll only need to do it once.