Zugg Software :: View topic - dynamically generated triggers or triggers to match a string list

Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

Heres the data:

You still have to kill * a dog (Northstar)
You still have to kill * earthworm (Island of Lost Time)
You still have to kill * a maid (Diamond Soul Revelation)
You still have to kill * a female prisoner (Dark Elf Stronghold)
You still have to kill * The Announcer (The Tournament of Illoria)
You still have to kill * a drunk (Wedded Bliss)

i want to dynamically create triggers to color the names of all the mobs listed (dog, earthworm...etc)

I have tried something like this

each line would set off a trigger that creates a new trigger and stores the mob name in %1

#TRIGGER {%1} {#CW purple}

obviously this wont work because the %1 doesnt get expanded in for the trigger.

What i was wondering if there was an easier way to maybe have a trigger match a string list....like:

#TRIGGER {@mobs} {#CW purple}

and @mobs would be a string list of all those mentioned above.

any one have any ideas? i can't figure out a way to implement this.

thanks.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Hmm, I think you could try something like this.

Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

thanks for the quick response. hmm yea thats definitely what im trying to do. i didnt even realize there were different types of triggers. For some reason though the trigger is still not firing. I have made sure it is an expression trigger.

I was using a simple example to test it out.

a trigger called @mobs that was an expression that would #SAY testing
and @mobs was just a variable with one entry with a type of autotype (i have tried different types and string lists)

for some reason it would never fire....any ideas?

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Oops, Its a CMud Thread.

I don't know if it makes any difference or not but I read the question as Zmud one and replied as such. As I already mentioned, its late and I guess I didn't read the subject line as correctly as I should have been :/

Sorry.

Prog

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:27 am

It shouldn't be an expression trig type. A normal trig type will work in that instance, but the pattern is also wrong.

#TR {{@mobs}} {#CW purple}

Also, in the initial trigger, use #ADDITEM, not %additem, as you do not want duplicates in the stringlist.

#TR {You still have to kill ~* (%w)} {#additem mobs %1}

To get around the "a" that is sometimes there, and sometimes not, change it to:

#TR {You still have to kill ~* (%w) (%w)} {#IF (%1 = "a") {#additem mobs %2} {#additem mobs %1}}

Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

#tr {You still have to kill ~* (%w) (} {mobs=%additem(%1,@mobs)}
#tr {{@mobs}} {#CW Purple}

You may want to use #additem alternatively, as %additem will allow duplicate entries. Also you needed {} around the variable to expand it.

Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

Beat me by a minute, but you might want to change that if statement to %1 = @articlelist, articlelist being a list of articles you do not want highlighted, such as The, A, An, ect. So #var articlelist {A|An|a|an|The|the} ect

Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

you guys are flippin sweet. yea i just need the extra brackets around the variable to expand it. I still have some messin around with the additem to get it how i want it but i hopefully this should be all the info i need!