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Beginner Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 28 Location: Sweden

Is it possible to count up instead, say I have a command that puts me in a special state for 4 min. With start and stop messages that I can trigger on. Is it possible just to make some alarm to trigger and then stop at the stop pattern. I've looked through the helpfiles but couldn't find anything. I now have created some triggers that count it using the %time function. A bit messy though. Is there some kind of alarm that counts the other way around?

Cheers,
Kaputchnik

Newbie Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 0

You could try looking in the help files for the #ALARM command, this might be better than the timer in your situation.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

I'm not at all clear on what you are trying to do, which makes answering difficult. If you want a 4 minute, one-time alarm that's easy.

#AL +4:00 {#SAY done}

Of course, if you get start and stop messages for the special state it would be more accurate to trigger on those.

LightBulb
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GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Give the
#ALARM
an id so you can
#UNTRIGGER id

To stop it if need be.

Ton Diening

Beginner Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 28 Location: Sweden

Not quite what I had in mind. The time of the state I get differs and I like to calculate the duration.

For example:
You start berserking.
start counting...
about 4 min pass
You stop berserking.
and the alarm/trigger should count the time that went by.

Something like a stopwatch start it when I start my berserk and end it when I stop my berserk. And then display the duration.

Cheers,
Kaputchnik

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

The best way is with the pre-defined variable %secs. You can do:
#TRIGGER {You start berserking.} {#VAR start %secs}
#TRIGGER {You stop berserking.}
{#SAY You berserked for %eval((%secs - @start)/1000) seconds.}

Kjata