Zugg Software :: View topic - Script Error when using blank #SHOW command inside #IF statement

Novice Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Posts: 34

There seems to be an error in either the #SHOW command or the #IF command. In the following example, I am just trying to space out my info on the screen. I am receiving an error..

ERROR: Trigger "test_trigger" fired but did not compile

The following is the code for test_trigger. I am kicking it with a #say test_trigger to the session window.

Things I have tested:
1. If I remark out (use the semi-colon) the last active #SHOW command, the script works.
2. If I remark out the last active #SHOW command, and enable any other blank #SHOW command, the script fails.
3. If I remark out the last active #SHOW command, and enable any other non-blank #SHOW command, the script works.

I'm not sure what the correlation between the blank #SHOW commands and the mud command (equipment, inventory, etc.), but the first blank #SHOW command after the first mud command ALWAYS makes the script fail - if it is inside an #IF statement.

I can take the entire "else" portion of the #IF statement and run it on its own, fully enabled, and everything runs fine - spacing, mud commands, all #SHOW commands, everything.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

I just pasted that code and ran the syntax checker. The error is pretty explicit--#show requires an argument. You can't have a blank #show command.

Novice Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Posts: 34

Missed that one. I assumed, since the previous version 2.37 did not need a component to it, 3.33 doesn't. It also says in the documentation that SAY and SHOW are the same, except for how linefeeds are handled. Thanks for the heads up.

-Celerra7
Win7, cMUD 3.33