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Delphi03
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Posts: 37
Location: Illinois
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 Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 1:16 am
Timed, Triggered Loops And More
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Hello all. I have a couple of questions, mainly a loop question and then some (hopefully) simple ones, so I don' think I need to make more than one topic for it all.
1.) In the MUD I'm playing, after you do something (attack, cast a spell, change stance, forge equipment) you have to spend some time offbalanced. The MUD sends the data to me in the format:
So, whenever I do something, the last number is set to my offbalance time. This is what I'm trying to do:
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#VA offbalancemax %1
#VA offbalance %1 -------------------> I've also done #VA offbalance @offbalancemax
#WHILE (@offbalance >= 0) {#ALARM +1 {#MATH offbalance {@offbalance-1}}}
#GAG 0
*****OR*****
#WHILE (@offbalance >= 0) (#ALARM +1 {#ADD offbalance -1}}
#GAG 0 |
Now, when this trigger is tripped, it starts out fine by setting offbalance to %1 (eg: 5) and it starts counting down, only it's going 300mph and doesn't stop at zero. It goes to -800 something, then starts again from 5 down, then it'll just start going towards negative infinity. I don't know if it's my loop statement, or if it's something with the variables, or the #ALARM +1 (I want it to subtract 1 from offbalance for every second that goes by). Anyone have any ideas?
2.) Using %replace to fix my color issue still, but I'm running into problems with the MUD sends a double-quote (") to me, seems to mess up the parsing, and shows some pretty ugly stuff on my screen. Is there anyway I can fix that, or use #CW inside of %replace instead of %ansi ?
And for the final, newbiesh question
3.) How can I make zMUD allow me to send < and > to my MUD? every time I type it in the command line, it just disappears and never makes it to the MUD?
Thanks all in advance! |
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Delphi03
Novice
Joined: 20 Aug 2004
Posts: 37
Location: Illinois
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 1:50 pm
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Okay, I have spent a little work on this thing, and I'm still not getting it to work correctly. My new trigger code is as follows:
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#VA offbalancemax %1
#VA offbalance %1
#GAG 0
#MATH offbalancemax {@offbalancemax-1}
#MATH offbalance {@offbalance-1}
#WHILE (@offbalance > 0) {#ALARM "offB" *1 {#MATH offbalance {@offbalance-1}}}
#SUSPEND offB
#VA offbalance 0 |
Now, this sorta works, as in removes 1 from @offbalance every second, but it never stops, ever. I can not find a way to jump out of the loop, or terminate this countdown in anyway. Perhaps someone can help me with this #ALARM/#RESUME/#SUSPEND stuff? I've also tried...
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#VA offbalancemax %1
#VA offbalance %1
#GAG 0
#MATH offbalancemax {@offbalancemax-1}
#MATH offbalance {@offbalance-1}
#WHILE (@offbalance > 0) {
#RESUME offB
#ALARM "offB" *1 {#MATH offbalance {@offbalance-1}}
#SUSPEND offB
}
#SUSPEND offB
#VA offbalance 0 |
This causes the same results as the first, countdown by 1 ad infinitum.
If I remove the #RESUME/#SUSPEND parts from this trigger...
It will count down by 1 until it reaches zero, then it will count down by 2 starting with -2 (ie: 5 4 3 2 1 0 -2 -4 -6 -8 -10)
Any and All help is appreciated, thanks! |
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LightBulb
MASTER
Joined: 28 Nov 2000
Posts: 4817
Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:16 pm
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1. Why would you try to mix two different timing methods? If you're going to use an ALARM then there's no need for a WHILE.
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#MATH offbalancemax (%1 - 1)
#MATH offbalance (%1 - 1)
#ALARM "offB" *1 {#IF (@offbalance > 0) {#ADD offbalance -1} {#VAR offbalance 0;#T- offB}}
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2. Yes, unmatched double-quotes will mess you up. No, you can't use #CW inside %replace. No, I can't think of any way around it.
3. Use ~ before special characters when you want zMUD to treat them like normal characters. |
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Delphi03
Novice
Joined: 20 Aug 2004
Posts: 37
Location: Illinois
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:28 pm
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[EDIT]The reasoning behind the while loop was that I didn't know that an alarm was a loop (aside from repeating every second), but when I think of it, it makes more and more sense for it to be a loop.
Also, no whenever there is any input to the MUD, the gauge that these variables control will go to -1 for 1 second, and then back to zero...but works perfectly when it should be working...is this just a glitch/limitation in the scripting, or is it possible something is wrong?[/EDIT] |
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