Zugg Software :: View topic - Can CMUD detect if you are idle and turn off triggers?

Novice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

I searched for this without much luck, sorry if it is a repost.

I play on the MUD 3K. There is a guild there (mages) that require triggers in combat to manage shields that deactivate, I have it set right now to watch for magical shields that ware away and waiting for the next combat round can mean certain death. I need to set the triggers to trigger as soon as the shields go down but that can get me in trouble if I idle out of combat. Can anyone tell me how I could set CMUD to detect how long I have been idle then at a certain point turn off all triggers? Thanks!

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

1)create a named alarm with an interval roughly equal to your idle time. This alarm will do the turning-off via the #T- command, though if you plan on turning off every last trigger you made you can simply use #IGNORE (which will probably also turn off the alarm and thus you will probably end up disconnecting due to idle).

2)create an #oninput trigger that matches everything you send to the game from either the command line or from a script. This trigger will reset the alarm interval via %alarm(), preventing the alarm from firing when you send a command before the idle time was reached.

Novice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

Okay so I've tried to set it up but I'm having some trouble.

I'm trying to use this setup with #IGNORE. Here is what I have:

#ALARM idlecheck {-2:00}{#IGNORE}
#ONINPUT resetidlecheck {*} {#CALL %alarm(idlecheck,1000);#IGNORE}

Right now it appears to disable all triggers after 2 minutes but on input it doesn't appear to do anything if the triggers are disabled (I'm guessing because it is a trigger) and if they are enabled it disables them. I need it to always enable the triggers on input and always disable them on idle. Thanks in advance for the help!

Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:07 pm

#IGNORE 0 = off
#IGNORE 1 = on

(Which is reverse from the help file BTW!)

Novice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

Okay, it keeps me from unidling properly but it won't turn the triggers back on once it goes to idle, is there anyway to activate that #ONINPUT trigger once the triggers are disabled?

Novice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

I'm also running into the problem of my triggers triggering the ONINPUT and causing the alarm to reset, any help with both of these problems would be much appreciated.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Since everything is disabled by #IGNORE 0, the oninput trigger wont fire either. You need an alias:
#ALIAS backatcomp {#IGNORE 1}
Should work. You can change the name of course. I just like descriptive names. :)

Novice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

Thanks I figured that was the problem. I still can't stop my triggers from triggering the ONINPUT trigger though, is there a way to set it to ignore triggers?

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Delete the ONINPUT, you don't need it anymore.

Novice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

No, I still need it to detect when I'm not idle or else I will constantly go idle every 3 minutes.

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:39 am

you manually turn it back on my clicking the gun with the red x in the lower right corner.

Novice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

Right, I understand that. Still wondering how to adjust the ONINPUT trigger to only detect my input and not triggered input.

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:03 am

There is no coded difference as far as i know... Would make for some good default events for Zugg to code. OnComandLine vs onSettingCommand

Novice Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 40

Yes indeed that would be a great feature. For now I'll use a work around of setting an alias in all my numpad macros to reset the timer. Hopefully in the future there will be a better way of going about doing this. Thanks for the help everyone!

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:25 am

you could stick it on the onRoomEnter #EVENT, provided you use a map

Newbie Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 9

Balthus wrote a script that does just that for 3k. You can find it here:

http://necro.wikidot.com/safe-idle-command-queuing

-Parisienne@3k