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Newbie Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 2 Location: USA

I play a Circle 2.2 mud and have been a registered Zmud user for several years, and now I want to make a trigger to report when one of my charactor's health reach a certain number...have never made anything like this and to be honest, I dont really understand the terminology when reading help files.
Any help appreciated
Respectfully
Crueltiming

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

Syntax: #TR [id] pattern command [classname] [options]

The first part is the command, #TRIGGER (often abbreviated to #TR). (see helpfile Contents/Command Reference/TRIGGER)

Next comes the ID field. This is optional and isn't used for this example.

Next you'll need a pattern. This is something the MUD sends to you which shows your character's health. Some possibilities include your prompt, your score, and the combat scroll. The portion of the pattern which contains your health should use a wildcard (%d for digits or %n for numbers) and be surrounded by parentheses () so that it can be used in the next part. (see helpfile Contents/Command Reference/Pattern matching)

The next part contains the commands you want the trigger to perform. In this case, you'll want to compare your health to some predetermined number. The #IF command would be an appropriate method, with a less-than comparison. (see helpfiles Contents/Command Reference/IF and from the #IF topic, click the link to Expressions)

The next part of the command is the Class field, you shouldn't need it at this point so you can just leave it blank.

Finally, there's the Options field. If you're using your prompt for the pattern, you'll want to include the Nocr and Prompt options. Otherwise, you can probably skip both of the last two fields.

Combining all that, you'd get something along these lines
#TR {Your have (%n) health} {#IF (%1 < 570) {report}}
or
#TR {(%n)/(%n)hp} {#IF (%1 * 5 < %2) {report}} {} {nocr|prompt}

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