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Newbie Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 0 Location: USA

Hi all. I'm trying to set up a series of alarm triggers that will count variables down from a captured number to zero. In addition to doing that I'm trying to display the results in the status window.

This is the sample line of text to trigger from:

wisdom : yes wisdom time : 260

My basic trigger looks like this:

wisdom(*): yes(*)wisdom time(*): (%d)

#VARIABLE vWISDOMTIME %4
#IF {@vWISDOMTIME > 0} {
#ALARM +2
#ADD vWISDOMTIME -1
} {#VARIABLE vWISDOMTIME ---}

And then in the status window it calls the @vWISDOMTIME variable to automatically update the counter. By itself as a #WAIT delay, it works great. But if I try to add any other spells (Dex, sta, str, etc), wierd stuff tends to happen, 1 will count down, then another will count down, or 1 will count down, and the others lock at their initial values. I've been trying various versions of using the #ALARM command but I think I'm doing something wrong. (Not even sure if I should be using an #IF command)

I'm just wondering if there is something I am missing to keep multiple alarm triggers running at the same time, or if it is even possible. My zMUD Version is 6.16. If any more info is needed, let me know. :)

Thanks,

-Brak

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

Please do a cut and paste of the text from your mudd here so that we can see the sytax and special characters involved.

Newbie Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 0 Location: USA

The sample line of text in the first note is a cut and paste. The board setup removed the spaces, but you can see where the spaces are from the (*)'s in the trigger line.

-Brak

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

It looks to me like your ALARM syntax might be the cause of the problem. Copied is your script with the proper syntax added.

#VARIABLE vWISDOMTIME %4
#IF {@vWISDOMTIME > 0} {
#ALARM {+2} {#ADD vWISDOMTIME -1}
} {#VARIABLE vWISDOMTIME ---}

Note that each argument of the ALARM command is encapsulated in braces. This ensures that the parser does not become confused as to what it is to put into a given field of the created alarm trigger.

Newbie Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 0 Location: USA

No good. I think I'm taking the wrong approach to it though. re-thinking it, I think I'm gonna try to just have a trigger to capture the variables and create an alarm based on which variables were captured. In the alarm would be the if statement to count down or not, and when completed, remove itself. will try to get it going.

-Brak