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Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

Hi,

Being the control freak that I am, I wanted to experiment with timers regarding my prots. My layout at the moment is that I have the status window on the left side of my mud window, with a lot of information, like most of the prots in the mud.
I also made so that the appear/disappear when prots go on/off which is really nice. Now, I would like to add a timer in the status window, beside the prots currently on.

For example, it would look like:

Prot 1 [time]
prot 2 [time]

etc

The time would increase as it does, so that I can keep track on for how long they have been up and so on. Is this possible at the moment?
I have been reading up on timers but nothing seems to be able to do what I want to do.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

#alarm -1 {#raise onSecond}
#event "evtProt1" {
#if (@prot1) {
prot1 = (@prot1 - 1)
} {
#t- evtProt1
}
}

Put a #T+ evtProt1 in the on trigger, and repeat the event for each prot you want.

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

Hey,

Not entirely sure that I understand what this does. What does this one do #if (@prot1)? It is just a variable, so it doesn't check against anything?
Also, what variable will hold the time information that I can put in the status window?

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

Before suggesting an approach, a bit more information would be helpful. Can you tell us if you measure the time remaining on buffs in terms of ticks or in terms of minutes and seconds? How do you know the duration of your buffs? An example of the output from the mud which displays this information would be helpful. If you measure the duration of buffs in ticks, how do you know when a tick has occurred on the mud?

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

There is no exact time for how long a buff is up, just an estimate, which is what I want. What I want is quite simple.
I cast a spell/use a skill that puts a buff on me. When the buff hits me and succeeds, I trigger it, and give myself a message saying that this buff is currently up.
From this moment, I want a timer to off and start increasing in seconds, so that I know that buff1 has been upp for 100 seconds, or 120 seconds etc.

It is not about ticks or anything like that, just a counter I guess that shows for how long a buff has been up.
At the moment, I have made it so that when no buffs are up, my status window is just black. When one buff is up, the name becomes green plus I get notified.
My plan was to have a counter beside the name that shows for how many seconds the buff has been up.

cast buff1 on me
buff1 is up
start timer

The plan is to have the status window on the left side, and then list all the current buffs there.
buff1 [24]
buff2 [105]
.
.
.
Where 24 and 105 would be the time for how long they have been up at the moment. The only information I can get from the mud is when the buff lands on me and when the buff disappears.

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

K, in that case I'd recommend using a trigger that will set a variable for each of the buffs you want tracked according to the current time when the buff is cast, as expressed by the %secs variable, then calculate the amount of time that has elapsed by comparing that value with the current value of %secs and display the difference comprehensively as elapsed seconds and minutes. An alarm timer to keep the values updated will make it in to an active timer. The code for that looks something like this:

Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:43 pm

#IF (@var)
is the same as
#IF (!%null(@var))

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

Ok, just tried this out and it worked nicely. This is a lot more advanced than I am used to, hence my questions. Need to read up on this.
The time value is static though in the status window, and you talked about alarm timer to keep it updated though I do not know how to do that.

I tried reading up on alarms, but since I never really used them before I came up with nothing at all. Would be rocking to give me a kick in the right direction then I should be fine for now I guess.

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

There is an alarm incorporated in to that script which should be keeping the timers constantly updated. That's this bit:

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

I tried it once more, changed the name of the class to Prots, also changed it to #UPDATE Prots. No change.
If the buff is off and I cast it on me, the status window doesn't update. I need to change something in the status window, and then save it for it to show the time. The time will then also not move at all until I change something in the status window and save it.

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

Well that's curious Confused

When I install and test the script, it works just fine and maintains the timer automatically, as intended. I'm really not sure why it would behave differently for you.

Try adding the line #PRINT Alarm fired! to the alarm trigger, immediately after the line #UPDATE Prots. If the alarm is running properly, you should get a series of Alarm fired! messages on your screen. If you don't see those, it isn't firing. Also try manually inputting #UPDATE Prots to the command line and hit enter a few times a few seconds apart and see if that causes the time in your status window to update, as it should. This should help us isolate exactly what the problem is.

If the alarm isn't firing, you might try copy/pasting this to your command line (where you usually type things in Cmud while mudding). It should change the alarm so that it tries to fire once a second, instead of one hundred times a second. I don't think that would cause problems, but it's worth a try.
#ALARM "TimerUpdates" 1

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

I already had a status window which I thought created problems. Removed my old status window, removed the whole script, put it back in.
My new status window was created, I tried again but it didn't work.
I tried with #PRINT Alarm Fired! and it fired away like crazy so that one works. I tried to manually write #UPDATE Prots and press enter a few times but nothing changes.
I made a change in my status window and saved it, and it updated.

Looking on the triggers I have under the class Prots I have one called "TimerUpdates: .01", the pattern is ".01" and the value is "#UPDATE Prots". Is that correct?
It seems to work, just that "#UPDATE Prots" doesn't seem to work at all.

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

That all sounds correct, except that the #UPDATE line should be causing updates. Did you move or change the status bar object created by the script? It should have been created in the class 'Timers' (which you then renamed 'Prots') That's where the status bar object needs to be located for the '#UPDATE Prots' command to function properly.

If that's all as it should be, try installing this script in to a new Cmud session, with no other settings at all:

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

WOO! It works perfectly fine now. You are the best!
Thanks a lot for the help.

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

No problem.

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

One last question.
Is it possible to output only the timer of Armor, like it is right now. Right now, the output from "@buff_timer("armor")" will generate "Armor 0:30". Since I want to be able to control colors and such, the best thing would be to be able to call the timer for Armor, and only the timer.
Is this a possibility with the current script?

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

With a slight modification, yep.
Change the last line in the function 'buff_timer' from:
#RETURN %format("&14s &2d:&2s", %proper($buff), $minutes, $seconds)
to:
#RETURN %format("&2d:&2s", $minutes, $seconds)

That will cause it to return only the timer, not the name and the timer.

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

Haha, this is becoming more and more complex.
Is it possible to do something like this?(This is my status window)