Zugg Software :: View topic - trouble with alarms evaluating information at the wrong time

Beginner Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 14

OK I have a trigger for when a mob dies, it tracks the mob and tells you when it theoretically should have popped... Here is the code from zmud (I now use cmud and am trying to convert it)
pattern
^(%1) dies in fits of twitching agony.$
value
#if (!%ismember( %1, @excludeList) and %len( %1) < 25) {
#additem mobtrack %concat( %replace( %1, " ", ""), %time( "mmss"))
#var cur_mob %concat( %replace( %1, " ", ""), %time( "mmss"))
#echo @cur_mob died
#exec %concat( "#alarm """, @cur_mob, """ {+14:30} { #echo ", %1, " *respawned*; #delitem mobtrack ", %replace( %1, " ", ""), %time( "mmss"), "}")
}

for cmud here is my current attempt since the above is not liked by cmud AT ALL

#IF (!%ismember( %1, @excludeList) and %len( %1) < 25) {
#ADDITEM mobtrack %concat( %replace( %1, " ", ""), %time( "mmss"))
#VAR cur_mob %concat( %replace( %1, " ", ""), %time( "mmss"))
#PRINT @cur_mob "died"
#ALA @cur_mob {+1:30} {
#PRINT %concat( %replace( %1, " ", ""), %time( "mmss")) "*respawned*"
#DELITEM mobtrack %concat( %replace( %1, " ", ""), %time( "mmss"))
}
}

Now what this is doing is evaluating the information at the wrong time
Instead of passing the current value of %1 through and the current timestamp, it waits until the alarm fires and then simply prints the timestamp at that moment and there is no %1

what it should be doing is printing the mob and the time it was killed

ie. BigMeanMob0235 *respawned*

ANY ideas at all how to make it evaluate the %1 and time NOW as it sends it along in an alarm?

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:56 am

The only way to make it exapand is to imbed it in an #EXEC, but if you are using CMUD, you might be able to go another route.
#WAIT works properly now.
Will this work?

$mob=%concat(%replace(%1, " "), %time(mmss))
#PRINT $mob "died"
#WAIT 90000
#PRINT $mob "*respawned*"

Beginner Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 14

I suppose I can do it that way. I tried it out and it does work. The only real issue with that has to do with when a mob pops early, the alarm is removed. I have a very similar script written for something else that requires me to remove those alarms. So if anyone has any ideas how I can make this script work using alarms, I'd love any suggestions.

Shalimar, thanks for the input! I think I will use that for the mobtracker.