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chamenas
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 Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:48 pm
Question With Triggers that Ignore Frequency
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Alright, so I have a bit of a unique situation in the game I play. It is, however, an excellent opportunity to learn. In brief summary: The game I play made a recent coding change in how it groups items. Unfortunately, this recent change has made it so that certain item grouping is not consistent. Why it does it is not important, but since one of my triggers is based off of the grouping, I need to make an alternate trigger.
Specifically, here is the proper grouping pattern:
You give 18 fir boards to MacAllister MacAllen
To which I have:
pattern: ^You give \d+ (\w+) boards to MacAllister MacAllen
Execute: store %1
(store is an alias that runs)
However, for some items, I get another pattern instead:
You give a hickory board to MacAllister MacAllen.
The problem is not simply with that statement, since the numbers are unimportant I could simply alter my pattern slightly to amend that. The problem is it will fire that statement 18 times.
My solution to this is to make a trigger pattern like so:
pattern: ^You give a \w+ board to MacAllister MacAllen$
Execute: store %1
this would go under a separate trigger. But the trigger needs to be intelligent, it needs to know that any of the same pattern following directly after it should be ignored. How do I go about doing this? I don't want it to ignore everything after it, since the pattern will show up again. I merely want to avoid the ones directly following (each occurring on a new separate line, but without blank lines between them)
Over the course of this post it has occurred to me that I could go through a complex procedure with variables that cause it to refire once an even that occurs after (like entering the vault room again) occurs. But I was wondering if there was a simpler route. |
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shalimar
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:07 pm
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you could always turn the trigger off after the first time it fires and make an alarm to turn it back on in say... 10-15 seconds
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mr_kent
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:11 am
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You could also use a second trigger state if there is something to trigger on once all the boards are given.
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chamenas
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:48 am
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| shalimar wrote: |
| you could always turn the trigger off after the first time it fires and make an alarm to turn it back on in say... 10-15 seconds |
I suppose that could be easiest. I havent had the best luck with conditions though, and lag can screw up the timing, but I'll play around with it. |
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Tarn
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:46 pm
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| chamenas wrote: |
| shalimar wrote: |
| you could always turn the trigger off after the first time it fires and make an alarm to turn it back on in say... 10-15 seconds |
I suppose that could be easiest. I havent had the best luck with conditions though, and lag can screw up the timing, but I'll play around with it. |
How about having the normal state of the trigger being inactive?
You could turn it on as part of sending the command (alias, macro, whatever) and turn itself back off when it fires (or after a timeout in case it fails).
-Tarn |
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chamenas
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:28 pm
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So normally it's off and it turns off when the store alias is sent via trigger? What turns it off again before the rest kick in?
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Toxic
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:55 pm
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#REGEX GiveTrig {^You give a (\w+) board to MacAllister MacAllen$} {store %1;#T- GiveTrig}
#COND {^$} {#T+ GiveTrig} {within|param=20} |
You may need to adjust the param out further to compensate for lengthier sets... but this should work |
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shalimar
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:47 pm
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Well if the alias is gonna turn on the trigger, why not just use a named #TEMP instead? Fires once and is gone.
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Tarn
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:45 pm
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| shalimar wrote: |
| Well if the alias is gonna turn on the trigger, why not just use a named #TEMP instead? Fires once and is gone. |
Yes, that might be neater. In the back of my mind, I was thinking of things like counting the number of times it fired as the next logical step to build up to.
He'll probably still want cleanup code in place (prompt, timeout, whatever) if the text doesn't ever fire (such as if the initial command was issued in error, or something prevented it from working).
chamenas, I'm having trouble understanding "So normally it's off and it turns off when the store alias is sent via trigger? What turns it off again before the rest kick in?"
If you mean "So normally it's off and it turns _ON_ when the..." then: it turns itself off, and shalimar is right that making it a #TEMP trigger created by the store alias is probably clearest.
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chamenas
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:47 pm
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Well, I didn't even realize more had been responded to. I can certainly change it if there's a neater way, but I went with this:
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ID: Store Restock2
Pattern: ^You give a (\w+) board to MacAllister MacAllen.$
#IF (@store_restock=1)
{
store %1 board
store_restock=0
}
Regular Expression
ID: Store Restock2 reset
Pattern: ^You get a hickory board from the mystic vault.$
#IF (@store_restock=0)
{
store_restock=1
#say Store Restock Reset
}
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