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Apprentice Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 106

I try to recall and will be told:

You can't recall yet! (%d) seconds remaining.

I have a very large script that relies on a recall at the end of each completed task; the most annoying work is adjusting the #wait time for each individual task as some of them are greater. There are also kinks, for instance, one task may require a large wait time before the recall on one occasion but may not require the wait time on another occasion. To get around to the point I want a trigger off the above pattern, using #alarm preferrably, to take the number that would be in the place of (%d) and convert it into milliseconds which the alarm would then count down and issue the recall command at the proper time. I have the #wait command in every one of my scripts and if I were able to work out this one trigger I could eliminate a lot of useless and potentially harmful code in my scripts. It would simply work like this: task is over and recall is issued and if I must wait the recall #alarm kicks in and issues recall for me at the appropriate time.

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:14 am

No, unfortuantly you cant use %1-99 wildcards from a trigger in an alarm.
You can however use local variables as a jump between.

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:15 am

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:43 pm

GAHHHh, zmud, no local variables anyway.

Thou your code does work charneus, I've always been wary cause of the lil red note at the bottom of the #alarm help page.

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:50 pm

that's because the time option is not bracketed, thus allowing variable expansion

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:10 pm

Apprentice Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 106

I threw one together real quick, i think it worked like this:

You can't recall yet! (%d) seconds remaining

#alarm %1 {recall}

and it created the alarm with the proper time the only problem was that it created a steady alarm and was going off every 37 seconds, but at least it says that you can use wildcards. I just didn't edit the post because it was late and I wanted some sleep.

#EXEC %concat("#ALARM +",%1," {whatever}")

I tried that one, it works and I like it.
Thanks!

Wanderer Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 83

On your original one, you didn't have +%1. The + is very important as it creates a temporary alarm trigger that will fire once then delete itself. Omitting the + creates an alarm that will repeat every %1 seconds.