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Wanderer Joined: 07 Oct 2001 Posts: 71

What I would like to know is how to start a priority stringlist system. That would update and prioritize based on inputs from the mud. Example, if my character went to an alchemist and was given 6 potions. Healing, Wellness, Restore, Vitalize, Vigour, Boost. I want a trigger that would put each potion into a stringlist in predefined order so each time I hit my DrinkPotion macro it would drink the top prioritized potion.

Examples
Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a Healing potion.
237h, 954m
Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a Restore potion.
237h, 954m
Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a Vitalize potion.
237h, 954m
Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a Vigour potion.
237h, 954m
Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a Wellness potion.
237h, 954m
Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a Boost potion.
237h, 954mv

So I want a trigger that would Fire on the msg of {Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a %1 potion.} And stores the potion type in a prioritized stringlist like. Vitalize|Vigour|Healing|Boost|Wellness|Restore.

My problem is getting the varibles to be stored in order, even if they are given to me in a different order. And to complicate it even further...
If I hit my DrinkPotion macro, so it would drink Vitalize, then Vigour (based on the priority stated before). So now the list is
Healing|Boost|Wellness|Restore
And then I am handed another Vitalize potion. I would need the list to reflect the addition in priority. IE the new list for the macro would need to be.
Vitalize|Healing|Boost|Wellness|Restore

I tried to explain how I want the list to work as best as I could. This potion example is just one of many things that I would like a system like this for. If any further explination is needed, I'll do my best. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2001 Posts: 103 Location: USA

I don't if this it what you are looking for or not, but this is how i have done priority queues in the past.

First make a master list if the potions.
#VAR MastPotionList Vitalize|Vigour|Healing|Boost|Wellness|Restore

then the trigger with this pattern:
Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a (%w) potion.

inside the trigger:

find the postion of the potion you were given in you master list.
@pos = %ismember(%1,@MastPotionList)

next find add that number to name sperated by a "-"
#ADDITEM PotionList {@pos-%1}

last thing in the trigger is to sort the list.
%sort(@PotionList)

This will result in a list that looks like:

This will result in you creating a list that looks like:

1-Vitalize|2-Vigour|3-Healing|4-Boost|5-Wellness|6-Restore

Then when you need to drink a potion you take the number out like this.
@Potion = %item(@PotionList,1)
drink %word(@Potion,2,-)
@DELNITEM @PotionList 1

This will take the first item in the @PotionList and store it in @Potion
Then it will take the second word in @Potion where the words are seperated by a "-"
Then delete the first item in @PotionList.

in other words:

#VAR MastPotionList Vitalize|Vigour|Healing|Boost|Wellness|Restore
#TRIGGER {Danjjir the Alchemist hands you a (%w) potion.} {@pos = %ismember(%1,@MastPotionList);#ADDITEM PotionList {@pos-%1};%sort(@PotionList)}
#ALIAS DrinkNext {@Potion = %item(@PotionList,1);drink %word(@Potion,2,-);@DELNITEM @PotionList 1}

NOTE: I have not tested this code. You may want to check the syntax but the idea does work.

-Serentus-