Zugg Software :: View topic - Help with a time delay/ multiple trigger firings

Beginner Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 11 Location: Seattle

I will just get straight to the point. Sample of the problematic Mud Output:

You have finished concentrating on the skill.
You search the room for herbs.
You find some lotus!
You find some borage!
You find some hops!
You find some echinacea!

Ideally my trigger would fire on all of these "you find some" lines to collect data about what I am finding. However, as a result of any given foraging instance, I want to send the command to forage again only once, whether I find one herb, four herbs that are all different, or 4 herbs that are all the same. I feel like I am okay with syntax and adjusting my #ifs and #whiles , I am just having a tough time figuring out the logic of how to make this work.

Thanks a bunch.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

#TRIGGER {You search the room for herbs.} {forage = 0}
#TRIGGER {You find some (%w)!} {#if (@forage = 0) {forage;forage = 1} {}}

Should do it
So you have a 'forage' variable that's reset to 0 whenever you start a search. Then first time you find something you forage and it sets the variable to 1. So then anything else that's found is ignored until you forage again (and the variable is reset)

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

#CLASS Forager
#VARIABLE HerbsFound {} {}
#VARIABLE ForageCount {0} {0}
#ALIAS forage {#T+ Foraging;#SEND {forage};#ADD ForageCount 1}
#TRIGGER "Foraging" {^You search the room for herbs.$} {HerbsFound="";#T+ Foraging2;#T+ ForageTimer;#T- Foraging} "" {case|disable}
#TRIGGER "Foraging2" {^You find some (%w)!$} {#ADDITEM HerbsFound {%1}} "" {case|disable}
#TRIGGER "ForageTimer" {*.2} {#T- ForageTimer;#T- Foraging2;#IF ((%numitems(@HerbsFound)=1)|(%numitem(@HerbsFound)=4)) {#IF (@ForageCount=1) {forage} {ForageCount=0}} {ForageCount=0}} "" {alarm|disable}
#CLASS 0

I think that should handle what your looking for. You may have to adjust the alarm's time and all of it was written off the top of my head, so it is totally untested.