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Newbie Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 8

I am quite new to zmud programming, and had a question as to the life span of any user variables that are set. Do all variables retain their value for a particular character all the time? If I say

x = 100

Then close zmud, and open it again and say

#SH x

Would it still be 100? If so, is that true for all variable types?

My other question is unrelated to scope and more to do with organization. This is a very newbie question, and I am sorry if this is touched on in the help files and I missed it. Is there a way to sort out your various triggers and variables for zmud and keep them together. I plan on playing around a lot with it and I don't want the junk I write to be left lingering and cluttering up. So one day I might be trying one thing out, and instead of picking through the trigger and alias lists and deleting (or classing and disabling classes) is there a way for me to write a script, turn it on when playing with it, then disable it for "normal play" so to speak? Or do I simply put them all in a class then turn the class on and off?

Wanderer Joined: 26 Jan 2001 Posts: 74

With the variables, you have the choice of setting a default value on them, but it's not required.

For your second question, look up Classes.

Ana

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

Once you save your settings, the variable will exist until it is deleted. If you don't save your settings, it won't.
If it has a default value, it will be reset to the default whenever you connect. If it doesn't, it will retain its last saved value.

Use classes to organize your settings. That's what they're for.

Newbie Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 8

Ok, I guess as I was typing out the second part classes seemed like the right answer :) Thanks for answering my question about the variable scope.

Reapy