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Novice Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

first I assume the command would be the same in both so I'll go from there.

I got an alias that I need a 1.5 sec delay and I've tried both the #alarm and #cond commands with no success. It seems the command is just ignored.

here is my script

slice meat
cook meat
#COND {} {eat meat} {Wait|Param=2000}
examine corpse

What I want is the slice and cook meat to happen instantly, a 2 second delay then the eat meat then examine corpse commands. What I get instead is the slice cook and examine commands instantly, and nothing else.

I also tried

#ALARM +0.5 {eat meat}

instead of the #cond command, but got same results. It's gotta be something VERY simple I'm doing wrong, help please.

Dazed glazed and having fun

Beginner Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Posts: 12 Location: USA

Try this:

#alias feed {slice meat;cook meat;#wa 1500;eat meat}

Tim

Novice Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Ahh but the #WA command causes all aliases and triggers and such to be delayed too, not just that one? Don't it?

Dazed glazed and having fun

Beginner Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Posts: 12 Location: USA

Hmmm. Is there a message that is displayed once you start to cook the meat? If so you could do a:
#trigger {Your meat starts cooking.} {#wa 1500;eat meat...}

Does that make sense?

Tim

Novice Joined: 20 Dec 2001 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Hmm... does it have to be 1.5 seconds? Will 2 seconds do? Alarm works with whole seconds... doesn't allow for tenths of seconds.

Assuming 2 seconds will do:

#alias eatmeat {slice meat;cook meat;#alarm +2 {eat meat;examine corpse}}

Thats designed to be entered from the command line, you can just cut and paste it... change the alias name to whatever you want. If you type it in, those are curly braces {}, NOT parentheses ()

Bob, aka Kayd on SWMud and a few others.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

If you are not using the beta version, then you can't use trigger states (#COND) or floating point values for the alarm pattern. If you are using the beta version, you can use the floating point values for an alarm pattern, but you still can't do it with trigger states since they are for triggers, not for an alias. So, your solution would involve using alarms and it depends on if you have the beta version or not:
Version 6.16:
#ALIAS feed {slice meat;cook meat;#ALARM {+2} {eat meat;examine corpse}}

Version 6.20+:
#ALIAS feed {slice meat;cook meat;#ALARM {+1.5} {eat meat;examine corpse}}

I have tested both and they seem to work fine.

Kjata

Novice Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

OK Now I guess I'm just entering it wrong, I cut and pasted what you wrote but no go, BTW I'm using ver 6.16

When I goto Aliases it looks like this...sorry I never use the command line to create aliases triggers or anything.

slice meat
cook meat
#ALARM {+2} {
eat meat
examine corpse
}

Dazed glazed and having fun

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Yes, that's correct. So, how is it not working?

Kjata