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Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

ok what i wanna do now is my own little timer based off of when an ability starts and stops when it ends i wanna do it with the #ST command
i know a timer is somthing really simplistic i just dont get how i should go about starting this. This is what i want to make the timer start

"With Your words, you inspire yourself with strength"

#ST{Praise:@seconds :@mins}

"You are no longer inspired" to stop the timer

assuming i have this right i need to set the values for the seconds and mins being like 60 seconds = one min but how do i get the timer to know the concept of a "second"? I could be over thinking this, and it's going over my head... reason i wanna do it this way is the spells timers change alot when you level whatever stat needed and if you level the ability more as well..

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Probably your best bet is to use %ctime. %ctime is a counter-in-seconds of how long you are connected, which by itself isn't very useful for most things. However, by saving %ctime to a variable in your start trigger and then saving it to another variable the stop trigger you can then do a simple subtraction and finally convert the result to an hour:minute:second format.

#trigger {With Your words, you inspire yourself with strength} {Praisestart = %ctime}
#trigger {You are no longer inspired} Praiseend = %ctime;do calculations here}

Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

yeaa but i have been so successful in doing alot of the things i wanna do i really think i can do this this is what i have so far...if you can help that would be super, but also dont get me wrong i have been learning alot from my past questions asked otherwise i would not even be attempting this.

#TRIGGER With your words you inspire yourself with strength

@PRAISEON = 1
@PRAISEOFF = 0
#IF (@PRAISEON = 1) {#ST Praise: seconds: @seconds}
#UNTIL "You are no longer inspired"
@PRAISEON = 0
@PRAISEOFF = 1

#TRIGGER You are no longer inspired

@PRAISEON = 0
@PRAISEOFF = 1
#UNTIL "With your words, you inspire yourself with strength"
@PRAISEON = 1
@PRAISEOFF = 0

the problem i am having is zmud is always saying that the praise on value is =1 (on) even after the spell wears off, and everything is ok with the pattern matching so i dont know whats wrong..

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:44 am

That might be because you have two variables, praiseon, and praiseoff, and you're only checking for 1. Just set one variable. Don't switch like you have it.

@PRAISEON = 1
#IF (@PRAISEON = 1) {#ST Praise: seconds: @seconds}
#UNTIL "You are no longer inspired"
@PRAISEON = 0

So, try that out. Don't know if it'll work... I'm just pointing out a flaw in your code design.

Charneus

Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

perfectally fine i wanna know this thanks :) i just wanna get the variables to switch right

Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

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Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

update however there is some design flaw the @second variable wont move from 0 however the @praise variable is adjusting now suggestions? Also i know currently there is no turn off trigger i just wanna get the @second variable to work.

#TRIGGER :With Your words, you inspire yourself with strength!
praise = 1
#IF (@praise =1) {#st Praise: @seconds}
#while (@praise =1) {#ADD 1 @seconds}
#UNTIL {You are no longer inspired}

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 226

I think you're misunderstanding how the #UNTIL works. It doesn't keep going until the until is received, it does almost the exact same thing that #WHILE does. #WHILE repeats commands until the expression is true, #UNTIL repeats commands until the expression is NOT true.

Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

I see, thanks.

Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

Timer
#VAR PraiseStart {0} {0}
#TR {With Your words, you inspire yourself with strength!} {PraiseStart=%ctime}
#TR {You are no longer inspired.} {Praisedur=%eval((%ctime-@PraiseStart));PraiseStart=0}

Statusline code
#ST [Praise:@Praisedur

I went though alot of the tutorials found one that works, but i noticed variables wont show up as they increase or decrease on the status line is there a way to make this happen?

Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

I found a nice one in the past posts props to kjata this is his script

#VAR hours 0
#VAR mins 0
#VAR secs 0
#ALARM {*1} {#ADD secs 1;#IF (@secs >= 60) {#ADD mins 1;#VAR secs 0};
#IF (@mins >= 60) {#ADD hours 1;#VAR mins 0};#IF (@hours >= 24) {#VAR hours 0}}
#STATUS {MUD Time: @hours:@mins}
#ALIAS settime {#VAR hours %1;#VAR mins %2;#VAR secs 0}

now the only thing i have to do is make it start and stop based on when my ability starts and stops.

Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

yeaa..i know i am a pain in the ass heh..anyways i got the timer working however i wanna set it to start and stop when an ability pulls of i know this is done with the trigger command, BUT i have never ever...EVER had problems with triggers...so i have no idea what could be wrong..

pattern: With your words, you inspire yourself with strength!

#ADD secs 1
#IF (@secs >= 60) {
#ADD mins 1
#VAR secs 0
}
#IF (@mins >= 60) {
#ADD hours 1
#VAR mins 0
}
#IF (@hours >= 24) {#VAR hours 0}

I use my ability, it's not working..also in the patten matching box it matches soo...what could i be doing wrong?

Wanderer Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 79

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