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Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2001 Posts: 43 Location: USA

Hello. I've created a trigger that assigns a variable using %pos. It is a trigger off my status prompt. I can define the variable @unbal with the position of letter y, using:

#var unbal %pos ("y", %3)

if y is present, I am off balance. What I would like to do is have another variable that is the opposite of this one to keep track of when I am balanced. I tried adding the following to the same trigger:

#if @unbal {bal=0} {bal=1}

I thought this would assign the value 0 to bal when @unbal had a non-zero result from %pos, but would have a 1 value if the @unbal variable was not found, giving it a value of zero.

So, if @unbal=0 I want @bal=1
and if @unbal=anything other than 0, @bal=0

It doesn't seem to be changing the value of @bal at all using this method. What can I do to fix this?

Thanks!

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

I can't see any problem with your reasoning. Best I can recommend is to use the value of %3 instead.

#IF (%pos("y",%3)) {#VAR unbal %pos("y",%3);#VAR bal 0} {#VAR unbal 0;#VAR bal 1}

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Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2001 Posts: 43 Location: USA

In snooping around in the old messages I found one that said you can't use a conditional to define a variable. So I tried something else and it worked perfectly.

NOW my problem is that when I turned the trigger class off using an alias I made like this...

#alias tstatoff {#t- status}

...I can't get it back on with my alias to turn it back on:

#alias tstaton {#t+ status}

As usual, one step forward...two steps back!

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

You probably have your aliases within a class called Status. Since they are within the class when you turn it off, you are not able to turn on the class with tstaton because it's currently disabled. Move this alias outside of the class and it should work.

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