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Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Is there a better way to prevent a trigger from firing so soon?

I currently use named triggers, and then either a wait statement(old triggers) or an alarm(which has a tendency to break) to turn the trigger back on.

Wait statements have a tendency to lag things up/cause the triggers to not fire sometimes or delay other triggers/input from happening.

Alarms can stop working if the folder or all triggers have been disabled.

So I'm curious. Is there a better way to make it so that it only fires once per every x seconds? Sometimes lag will delay several rounds of combat, and then I'll get 10 rounds all at once causing the same trigger to fire 10x and just cause more lag/unnecessary in-game resources usage or many other troubles.

Thanks for the help.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Use a second state that is either an alarm or duration, If you go with duration then you would set the pattern text to something that is impossible to match such as: "Not ^ possible" and set the time you want in the param field. Alarm is likely a better choice when the desired delay is more than a few seconds.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Thanks Vijilante.

Forgive me, but I don't fully understand #state, but isn't that what I'm currently doing with the alarm? Trigger fires, #T- triggername; #ala +1 {#T+ triggername} .. Turns trigger off for 1 second and turns it back on.

Wouldn't the state be the same thing as turning it off/on with #T-/+ but without a secondary trigger to turn it back on, except I'm just using an alarm?

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:17 am

Essentially, yes.
Trigger states are added patterns that must be matched in sequence by default.
Technically the trigger is waiting for a different pattern in the interim.

Another alternative is to base the trigger script off a variable.
#IF (@testVar=1) {do something}

Then you only need to change to value of @testVar to keep the trigger from actually doing anything.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182