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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:53 pm

I've been reading all kinds of diffrent scripts and set up's on how to do this and i found at using the database would be a easier way

I got it set up to where it counts how many kills i do, but i want to set it up to where it tells me how many of a certain mob i kill...

Is there a way to set this up?

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:04 pm

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:05 pm

You'll need some kind of line that says the name of whatever you've killed. In mine, the line looks like this:

You have slain an enraged stoat!
You have slain your mother!
You have slain a hulking bug list!

So my pattern looks like this:

You have slain (*)!

You'll need to set up your own or provide some sample text for us to use.

Now, you need a variable to keep your killcount in. That's the easy part - I'll call mine @KillCount. It's going to be a data record variable. First, you check if you've already killed a mob of this type. You do this with the %db function:

#if (%db(@KillCount,"%1")) {} {}

This checks to see if there's already a key of the KillCount variable with any value. If there is, you just add 1 to that key:

#if (%db(@KillCount,"%1")) {#addkey KillCount {%1} {%db(@KillCount,"%1")+1}} {}

The #addkey command here is replacing the key with the name of the mob you killed, replacing its value with the old value (as returned by the %db function) plus one.

If the mob hasn't been killed before, you add a new key to the variable, with the starting value 1:

#if (%db(@KillCount,"%1")) {#addkey KillCount {%1} {%db(@KillCount,"%1")+1}} {#addkey KillCount {%1} 1}

Giving me a final trigger that looks like this:

#trig {You have slain (*)!} {#if (%db(@KillCount,"%1")) {#addkey KillCount {%1} {%db(@KillCount,"%1")+1}} {#addkey KillCount {%1} 1}}

Now, to get the value for a particular mob, I use %db(@KillCount,"mobname). I can use that anywhere in a script. To loop through all the mobs I've killed, I use #loopdb like this:

#loopdb {#say I have killed %key %val times.}

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:07 pm

Okay, so you have the script all set up and working. Excellent.

Adding a tracking window is easy. To track only a certain mob (or a certain subset of mobs) you just put %db(@mobkills,name) in the status window or button caption or wherever. To get the whole list, you'll need to use %expanddb.

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:20 pm

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:36 pm

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:46 pm

I got it recording as a variable but its not showing up in the Status window...Help please...

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:03 am

Patience is a virtue :)

You could use something like this:

%expanddb(@mobkills,%concat(" times.",%crlf)," killed ")

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:31 am

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:42 am

Anywhere you like. A (sufficiently big) button caption, a status window, a #say command in an alias...

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:51 am

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:27 pm

Yes, except annoyingly, it doesn't print the "times" at the end of the string, so you might want to do:

#STW {%expanddb(@mobkills,%concat(" times.",%crlf)," killed ") times.}

Also, you'll probably want to use %cr rather than %crlf, since it seems that the status window parses them separately.

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:03 pm

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:12 pm

Open the settings editor and delete the status window item, or run #stw "" from the command line.

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:30 pm

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:28 am