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Newbie Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

I am fairly new to Zmud and I was trying to make a script to send different commands at random intervals problem is I don't know where to start any help would be awsome

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The command you will be most interested in is #ALARM. You will also need a few functions %random, %case, possibly item %item.

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:49 am

Something like:

#alarm {%eval(4+%random(6,16))} {#send %case(%random(1,4),dance,ponder,skip,hum)}

Will do one of the listed commands every 10-20 seconds. Look up the functions in the manual for more info on how to use them.

Newbie Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

So if I wanted to changed the intervals between 0, and 360 while executing around 50 different commands at different intervals it would look something like this:

#ALARM {%eval( 4+%random( ,360))} {#send %case( %random( 1, 50), blah, skip, hum, note read %random( 1, 36), oocn read %random( 1, 11) )}

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:21 am

Between 0 and 360 seconds, you could just use %random(360) instead of %eval(4+%random(,360)), hopefully for obvious reasons.

Read the help file for the %case function. The first argument is a number, or a variable containing a number, or a function that returns a number. In this case, we're using the %random function to return a random number. The rest of the arguments are things to return when each number comes up - the second argument is number 1, the third number 2, etc etc. So your %case function should look like

%case(%random(1,50),something1,something2,something3,something4,something5,...blahblah...,something50)

EDIT: Rereading your %case example, I understand it better now. I thought you were confused about the usage and including %randoms everywhere, but you're not. Looks good!