Zugg Software :: View topic - Prompt Trigger Causing new prompts without the option set

Newbie Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 7

I'm back to using zMud for now.

Ok, I know it is a problem between the keyboard and chair, but when configuring a sipper for Imperian which looks like the example below, the prompt keeps spamming through.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

You shouldn't use %1's etc inside the pattern, If its a number, use %d. %1's etc are for related the info you get from the pattern inside variables for example, therefore if there's several %d's inside the pattern, %1 relates to the first one thus currenthp=%1.

I'm not familiar with Imperian at all myself, but everything else seems to be as it should, though.

Prog

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

I don't know what all is possible for what you have in %9 like progonoi I do not play Imperian. But I think it would be safe to say that %x will work for it.

Also like progonoi I cannot see anything leaping out at me as being wrong except for the use of the %1 etc where you should be using %d.

Newbie Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 7

If I understand those suggestions they would relate more toward performance, and I thank you for the suggestions.

The original issue is that when the trigger is enabled, I keep getting prompt after prompt whether or not the conditions are true and the aliases are executed. The only thing in the trigger above that could cause it in my limited knowledge would be if in the options I have "Newline" checked. I don't.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

The point we are trying to make is that we looked at the trigger for things that were wrong with it. We only found those things.

The prompt or newline options could cause it to NOT fire when you need it to in certain muds but won't cause your problem.

This is almost a cosmetic change but it could help.
#if ((@currenthealth<@healthsip) and (@elixirbalance=1)) {dh}
#if ((@currentmana<@manasip) and (@elixirbalance=1)) {dm}

More likely you need to change something in your dh or dm aliases. You do have elixirbalance=0 in those aliases don't you?

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:22 am

The %1-%9 in the pattern isn't related to performance, it's related to getting the trigger to fire. The way that %1-%9 behaves when you put it in a trigger pattern isn't defined anywhere, so there's no way of knowing which wildcards it's using. You're not supposed to use those variables in the trigger pattern.

The proper way to do this would probably be something like this:

H:(%d) M:(%d) E:(%d) W:(%d) <(%a)>

You might also want to use ^ at the start to make sure it only fires on real prompts.

See also this KB topic.