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Beginner Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 27 Location: USA

Hello All.

I want to have a list (similar to a blacklist) but for people that I want to emote a specific way to when they interact to my bot.

Lets say for instance, when someone shakes my hand, I want 4 people to get, shakes your hand wildly, and all the rest to get, smiles and nods.

I have the variable @friendlyemotes and the list has persona|personb|personc|persond.

My trigger shows:
#IF %ismember(%1,@friendlyemotes) {shakes %1 hand wildly} {smiles and nods at %1}

When I hold the cursor over the %1,@friendlyemotes, it says =0 (false). So regardless of who shakes my hand, it reports false and gives the second emote.

I've looked over the forum and can't find anything that I haven't already used to set up the trigger and so forth...can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

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

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Hello All.

I want to have a list (similar to a blacklist) but for people that I want to emote a specific way to when they interact to my bot.

Lets say for instance, when someone shakes my hand, I want 4 people to get, shakes your hand wildly, and all the rest to get, smiles and nods.

I have the variable @friendlyemotes and the list has persona|personb|personc|persond.

My trigger shows:
#IF %ismember(%1,@friendlyemotes) {shakes %1 hand wildly} {smiles and nods at %1}

When I hold the cursor over the %1,@friendlyemotes, it says =0 (false). So regardless of who shakes my hand, it reports false and gives the second emote.

I've looked over the forum and can't find anything that I haven't already used to set up the trigger and so forth...can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Always check the helpfile to best ensure you are employing correct syntax. Unless there's a weird little glitch in your copy of ZMud, the fact you did not enclose the #IF condition clause in parentheses is usually the cause for a problem like yours.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

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

The complete text of the trigger, both its pattern and its value, would be helpful. At a guess, you have something similar to this:

Pattern: (%w) shakes your hand
Value: emote #IF %ismember(%1,@friendlyemotes) {shakes %1 hand wildly} {smiles and nods at %1}

Unfortunately, #IF can't be used in the middle of a line like that. Instead, you'd need something more like:
Value: #IF %ismember(%1,@friendlyemotes) {emote shakes %1 hand wildly} {emote smiles and nods at %1}

You should also make sure you use the same capitalization as the MUD when adding names to @friendlyemotes. For %ismember, persona, Persona, personA, and PersonA are four different people.

LightBulb
Senior Member

Beginner Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 27 Location: USA

I'll give you what I have:

Pattern: ^(%w) shakes your hand
Value: #IF %ismember(%1, @friendlyemotes) {pm shakes %1 hand wildly} {pm gives a nod to %1}

The variable is set to @friendlyemotes, with proper capitalization on the names, so that it would be similar to:
Persona|Personb|Personc|Persond

I did not enclose the #IF in parenthesis, but all of the other triggers where I use the #IF statement work without enclosure, and if I do enclose it, I get a nice, glaring red syntax error. i.e.:

(#IF blah blah
^syntax error

So, when the MUD shows:
Persona shakes your hand
It sends:
pm gives a nod to Persona
When it should send:
pm shakes Persona hand wildly
As, Persona is in the @friendlyemotes list.

Any other suggestions?

Magician Joined: 24 Feb 2001 Posts: 342 Location: USA

Value: #IF (%ismember(%1, @friendlyemotes)) {pm shakes %1 hand wildly} {pm gives a nod to %1}

is what i think you need

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

There must be something you aren't telling us. I opened a test window, copied your trigger and variable exactly, no changes, and it works flawlessly.

LightBulb
Senior Member

Beginner Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 27 Location: USA

*bows to Emit*
I see!!!

I didn't realize that the parenthesis needed to be outside the %ismember. It works like magic now. *dance*

Thank you all for helping though. This is the best forum I have ever taken part in and it's due to responsive people like yourselves. *smile*
(And yea, I realize that Matt was telling me the same thing...brain fart there. *chuckle*)
-M.