Zugg Software :: View topic - Triggering and not triggering on similar patterns

Novice Joined: 26 Oct 2001 Posts: 38

I've setup a trigger which will store, into a variable, the name of a person I am following,

Pattern: You follow (*).
Value: #VAR follow {%1}

I have another trigger that will move inside the map, in the direction I follow the person in.

Pattern: You follow {@follow} (*).
Value #MOVE %1

Where (*) is the direction they move "You follow Blah north.

Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to stop the first trigger from triggering on the second's pattern (As a player's name can be more than one word), which means the variable '@follow' gets changed to "Person's Name north".

The only way I've so far succeeded is to put the first trigger into a class and have it disabled when it has triggered, and re-enabled when yet another trigger sees "You stop following Blah."

I'm not always able to stop following normally; the person may disappear before I get a chance, this means there is nothing to trigger from to re-enable the class folder unless I do it manually. Is there an easier way to accomplish this without using a class folder?

Lain

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

Use an alias or an oninput trigger to set the variable when you decide to follow someone.

#ONINPUT {^follow (*)} {~follow %1}
#COND {You follow (*).} {#VAR follow {%1}} {within|param=5}

LightBulb
Advanced Member

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 12:10 pm

Related to the follow trigger I would also like to ask how to propery get the direction of the guy/gall you are ff. I play achaea and the message looks like this:

You follow Adam east to Cave.

I use this trigger pattern:
"You follow (*) (%w) to (*)" which works.
%1=Adam
%2=east
%3=Cave

But when the message becomes:

You follow Adam to the Entrance to the Cave.
Its:
%1=Adam east to
%2=Entrace
%3=the Cave
The Entrance to the Cave is suppose to be the room name but since there is word "to" in the sentence it dont work well. so How?

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

It would have been more polite to start your own topic, in case Lain had additional questions about this. However, just change the first * to %w.

LightBulb
Advanced Member

Novice Joined: 26 Oct 2001 Posts: 38

Great, thanks Lightbulb.

The only other thing I've noticed as a potential problem; if I choose to follow "a something" or "an something", the following message changes from "You follow Somebody north." to "You follow the somebody north". How may I tell the trigger to look for either a or an if it occurs and alter to look for the in the next trigger?

I thought of making a seperate trigger for an occurance of a or an and having the trigger add a the into the variable:

#VAR follow] {the %1}

But that would probably complicate things.

Lain

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

That makes things slightly more complicated, Lain. Here's what I came up with.

#ONINPUT {^follow (*)} {~follow %1}
#COND {You follow (*).} {#VAR follow {%1};#IF %begins( {%1}, "a ") {#VAR follow {the %remove( "a ", @follow)}};#IF %begins( {%1}, "an ") {#VAR follow {the %remove( "an ", @follow)}}} {within|param=5}

LightBulb
Advanced Member

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

I deleted my post before Lightbulbs as it confused even myself upon rereading your post.

Spectrum:
To handle this concept:
You follow Adam to the Entrance to the Cave.

The key is to know who you are following.
Lets say @follow is "Adam"

Trigger:You follow @follow to (*).
Value:#SH I followed @follow to %1

Else you parse it out:
Trigger: You follow (*).
Value:
#IF (!%pos(" to ",{%1})>0) {#SH I just followed someone ({%1}) not to somewhere?} {
#VAR followedwho %copy({%1},1,%pos(" to ",{%1}) -3)
#VAR followedto %copy({%1},%pos(" to ",{%1})+4,%len({%1}))
}

Ton Diening