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Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

is there a way to set an alarm based upon a variable? example when the hp variable @hp is < 250 then i could echo something to myself or send a tell to a teammate for a rescue?

Apprentice Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 158

How is the HP variable being populated? It would seem to be simpler to check the variable when its being set and not as a seperate alarm. I would assume you have a trigger to pull this information already. Add to the trigger an #IF and check it there...

Wanderer Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 60

A word of warning on this. If you go with a basic If (HP<250) it will be awfully spammy if you are under this threshold for any amount of time. An example would be a similar message someone spammed at us on Retromud where their low hp message literally fired 15 times as they sat crippled and dying at negative hit points for several rounds before finally going down.

An answer to that problem is to do something like this. It will prevent it from executing more than once when your Hp goes low. and will reset itself when you Hp goes back up again.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

well i was just using hp as an example, i really want to use it for other things, one of which is for my zmudamp controls, i wanna set an alarm so that when the songtime goes back to zero it'll fire out the songtitle on the music channel and a few other things

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

so then i guess there's no way to set an alarm from the value of a variable?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I believe you are looking for an expression trigger. However these may not be checked immediately upon a variable change from a COM source. I would suggest using a 1 second alarm and checking the variable within code for that.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

i found the solution to this problem. There's an alarm for the zmudamp controls that runs each and every second. add this in the alarm:

#if (@songtime<1000) {music @song}

it has to be 1000 or it's plausable that the alarm may miss it, cuz it goes every second and the songtime changes every 1000th of a second.

idea came from vijilante, so thanks to him, and also thanks to everyone else who helped.[/code]