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ReedN
Wizard
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Posts: 1279
Location: Portland, Oregon
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 Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:32 pm
What's the best mechanism to accomplish this?
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My goal is to setup a trigger that operates as follows:
1) I push a macro and for 5 seconds after I push the macro it enables a regex.
2) If I push the macro again before the 5 seconds is up, the regex is renewed and says active for 5 seconds after the macro was pressed.
I've tried doing this with the regex trigger followed by the duration trigger, but this isn't quite what I'm looking for. The regex/duration doesn't renew the time if I hit the macro again. I'd have to wait for the 5 seconds to expire then press the macro again. During that brief time the regex would not be enabled.
The only way I can think of accomplishing this is to do the following:
macro #1 - Enables a regex and alarm when pressed
regex #2 - Is enabled when the macro is pressed
alarm #3 - Is enabled when the macro is pressed and disables the regex and alarm after 5 seconds. If the macro is pressed before the alarm executes it gets reset back to 5 second and thus doesn't disable the regex pre-maturely.
I've also tried to do this with a macro/set|duration type of combination, but it has the same results as doing a regex/duration in that re-pressing the macro doesn't extend it to 5 seconds.
Any ideas on how to make this a bit more eloquent? |
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calesta
Apprentice
Joined: 07 Dec 2008
Posts: 102
Location: New Hampshire, USA
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:46 pm
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In your macro you can check to see if the trigger is currently enabled or not using the %trigger function. If it isn't enabled, just enable it. If it is enabled, reset the trigger to the duration state using the #state command which should restart the duration timer.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<cmud>
<trigger name="RegEx" type="Duration" param="5000" priority="20" regex="true" copy="yes">
<pattern>^(\S+) tells you: (.*)$</pattern>
<value>#show Fired</value>
<trigger regex="true" enabled="false">
<pattern>.*</pattern>
<value>#show Disabling
#T- RegEx</value>
</trigger>
</trigger>
</cmud>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<cmud>
<macro key="F1" copy="yes">
<value>#show Enabling
#if (%trigger(RegEx)) {#state RegEx 0} {#T+ RegEx}</value>
</macro>
</cmud>
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The duration is only checked when a new line of text is received from the MUD though, so this still may not give you exactly what you want. For example, you press the macro which enables the trigger, no text is received for 6 seconds, and then the first text received matches the trigger. Conceptually since you have a 5 second duration on the trigger, it shouldn't fire... but since no lines were received in the interim, it still will fire in this case. If that is a problem, I can't think of any way other than what you have.
Edit: I make no claim that this is the best way to do this, it seems close to the way you were originally trying though  |
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ReedN
Wizard
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Posts: 1279
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:03 pm
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I used a slight variation on what you had. I first tried using 'alarm' instead of regex so that it would fire after a period of time instead of when the next line came. It worked pretty well with a small time like *0.001 (*0 doesn't seem to work). But then I had the idea to use the pattern '.*' with reparse. As you can always match on the last line with that, it is always immediate.
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gamma_ray
Magician
Joined: 17 Apr 2005
Posts: 496
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:49 pm
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I did it with
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#t+ NameOfYourTrigger
#alarm NameOfYourAlarm +5 {#t- NameOfYourTrigger} |
as my macro, it seemed to work OK (but you might want to specify a class for the alarm, since it's deleted and recreated frequently).
Edit: Don't forget to use something (probably an onConnect event) to make sure your trigger is disabled whenever you reconnect, in case you disconnect before the alarm goes or something anomalous. |
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Fang Xianfu
GURU
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5155
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:29 am
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You could also try using the %alarm function to set the time remaining of the alarm back to 5 seconds, but I think I'd prefer gamma_ray's method, if it works.
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