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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:24 am

%ctime the number of seconds you have been connected to the MUD

I was messing around and did the following some time after i had logged off.

#say %ctime

And a got a positive result, should i be getting a positive number at all if I am not currently connected?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

It has always been that way. If you look down in the status bar where the connection time is displayed you will see it holds the value after a disconnect, and is zeroed on a reconnect. I think it was done this way in case anyone wanted to check/record how long they were actually online after a disconnect.

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:16 pm

Well, is there a good way to tell if the connection is currently active or not?

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

Well, you could change the value of a variable in the OnConnect and OnDisconnect events... I'm not sure if there is function specifically for this.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I use the onConnect and onDisconnect method. As far as I know onDisconnect still is called when a reconnect attempt fails, so you may have to take that into account with any script you build. You can also store the %ctime into another variable and use and alarm to check it again later; if it hasn't changed then you are not connected.

There still isn't a general sort of %connected predefined variable anywhere. I think I might have asked for such a thing once, but was shot down. Maybe it is time to ask again, hint hint you should ask.