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Novice Joined: 29 May 2001 Posts: 48 Location: USA

What I am trying to accomplish is a trigger that will attempt to run immediately and if it fails then to wait for specific text and run again.

I know if the trigger fails due to the text that is received from the mud. I am on the latest version of zmud and I think I can use the state options. However, I am unclear how the states work.

If your in achaea I'll use the pipe example. You light your pipes, they stay lit for a specific amount of time. Then you have to relight them in order to use them.

So, I get the message that my pipe is not lit. I try to light it. I can get one of two messages, one is that I light the pipe and the second is that I must wait for balance.

If I light the pipe the trigger is finished. If I don't then it waits for the balance text and then lights the pipe.

In either case I get the text you light your pipe when successful.

I would like to get this working with states if at all possible. I am trying to move away from long IF statements that are nestled together.

Perhaps there is a better way and I just don'e know about it. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thank you,

SHASCO.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1116 Location: USA

Unfortunately, I haven't worked w/states in triggers, but I don't see why you can't just use a few triggers instead.

Try this:

#trigger {Your pipe is not lit.} {#t+ LightPipe;light pipe}

#trigger {You have achieved balance.} {light pipe} "LightPipe"

#trigger {You light your pipe.} {#t- LightPipe} "LightPipe"

Of course, you don't really need to throw them in a class, but if you need to regain balance for other triggers, then throwing the 2 triggers in a class isn't so bad.

Iljhar

Novice Joined: 29 May 2001 Posts: 48 Location: USA

Thank you, that worked perferctly. I used your suggestion with the #alarm command.

Regards,

SHASCO