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Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

I would like to know if it is possible to turn off all triggers after there's been no human input for 'x' minutes?

Does anyone know how I could do this? It would need to be able to turn off even if the triggers have been triggering, just no HUMAN interaction...

Please, and Thank you.

Using CMud, newest version, Windows 7

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Turn off absolutely all triggers automatically? You probably knwo that you can click the gun icon at the bottom of the Cmud window to turn off all triggers manually. I'm not sure there's a way to do that in script, though...

You can disable an entire class, including all triggers, aliases, etc. inside it, with the #T- command. You can even have a trigger turn off the class that the trigger is inside of. Any triggers currently executing will complete execution, and will not fire again until the class is turned enabled again. If you put all of your triggers into one class, or a small number of classes, you can do something like what you want. You could have a alarm to execute the disable command, and an Oninput trigger which changes the timer on the alarm every time you enter a command at the command line.

You could be even more sophisticated. Have that alarm disable most of your classes, and also enable another trigger that is normally turned off. This trigger would be another Oninput trigger, which would do the reverse: enable the classes ,and disable itself, and start a new alarm when you enter anything at the command line.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Thanks Rahab for the response.

Yes, I'm aware of all the little tricks to turn on/off triggers, but I want to turn them off when I've been away from the computer for some time.

I want to prevent me from accidentally botting. That's the reason I want to turn them off after 'x' minutes of idleness.

I realize I could set up some sort of alarm, but I don't want them accidentally turning off while i'm at the computer, that could cause me a quick death.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

That's why I said to have an Oninput trigger. This trigger would fire every time you enter something at the keyboard. It would change the timer on the alarm, always setting it to 10 minutes from "now". If you stop typing for ten minutes (or whatever time you set for the alarm), it will go off, but as long as you type something, it will reset.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Ah, thank you. I misunderstood! I'll try that.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Uh.. Ok, well. I've managed to create an infinite loop of triggers using oninput. I'm not sure why it's not working, but it just keeps creating triggers over and over..

I've deleted them all because it kinda killed my cmud. Any ideas how I might code that?

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:17 am

Use a named alarm so you don't end up with countless instances of the same alarm.

The only way I can think of that might make it possible for CMUD to tell the difference between a user imputed command and one done by other settings is... keystrokes

Is there a way for CMUD to acknowledge any given keystroke event?
Perhaps something that could be referenced via COM scripting.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Hm. I thought Oninput triggers only fire on commands entered at the command line, not commands from scripts.

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

That can be worked around, though. This trigger should do exactly what you want, Loftaris:

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

I saved that as an xml file and imported it into my triggers, but it doesn't fire.

I tried creating it manually but it ended up as an infinite loop.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Aha! I fixed it.

I had to remove the " " from the alarm

Thanks a whole bunch! All of you!