Zugg Software :: View topic - Really simple.. Trigger on anything sent to mud?

Beginner Joined: 28 Mar 2001 Posts: 27

Can i cause an event to trigger if i type ANYTHING (or nothing) and hit enter?

Basicly to detect when i'm 'back' to my computer. Thanks!
-Matt

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

First, I don't see why you would want to do that. I mean, if you type something, don't you know that you are back? As far as triggering something on ANYTHING, you could use %w* among many many others. But, if you want it triggered on anything, it will be repetative. So say, if you made the trigger fire on %w*, and wanted to #ECHO I Am Back, it will fire fine, but will fire on every line, then fire again as the I Am Back is displayed. You need something set to turn it on and off.

Some muds say like You are no longer AFK. But you have to type afk first :)

If you had something to start the trigger, and turn it on, it might be possible.

Try this, before you go away from your computer.

Make an alias called Away that will do #ECHO I Am Away
Make another alias called Back that will do #ECHO I Am Back
Have a trigger fire on the pattern I Am Back

That is all I can think of but it still boggles me why you would want a trigger to tell yourself why you are back.

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GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

I think CrazyKid is thinking in terms of an AFK script that will turn off automatically when he starts typing again.

The best thing for this is #ONINPUT

Something like

#CLASS {AFK} {disable}
#TRIGGER {^(%w) tells you '%*'$} {tell %1 I am currently AFK}
#ONINPUT {^%*$} {#T- AFK;#SAY No longer AFK}
#CLASS 0
#ALIAS afk {#T+ AFK;#SAY Going AFK;#NOOP}

- Charbal