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Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 188 Location: USA

Ok I have been tinkering with this for quite some time but this is a slight annoyance that I can't seem to figure out. Basically I have triggers that changes the state (color) of buttons depending on whether a specific spell wears off or is casted.

The problem is this. I have a spell called Protection and as the spell wears off and I type 'affects' it'll show me how long I will have the spell. This then changes the states of my button accordingly. However, if another spell called 'Room Protection' is there, it'll also trigger the 'Protection' button.

For instance, when I type affects:

Protection, which will wear of sometime today.
Room Protection, which will wear of soon.

These are two different spells, however, 'Room Protection' will trigger 'Protection's button as well. How do I go about making the trigger more specific and being able to differentiate between the two.

Thank you for everything, it's always appreciated.

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

In this case, anchor it.
#TR {^Protection}

LightBulb
Senior Member

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 3:22 pm

have you got the trigger for room protection setup properly? wrapping it in ""'s may help, ala "Room Protection"

Why oh WHY did I have pass door on...

Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 188 Location: USA

I forgot to mention, I that I have the trigger like this.

{Protection, will wear off half a day|Protection, will wear of many days!}

When I tried it with this:

{^Protection, will wear off half a day|^Protection, will wear of many days!}

It stopped working or detecting the trigger.

Any other suggestions?

Thank you for everything, it's always appreciated.

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

If for some reason you feel a need to include the entire line in your trigger and must have ONLY one trigger to cover all the possible lines for that spell:
{^Protection, will wear off {half a day|many days!}}

Of course your first post says the phrase is
Protection, which will wear of sometime today
so there's a good chance you just aren't bothering to match the Mud.

LightBulb
Senior Member

Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 188 Location: USA

oh damn, good tip lightbulb... Instead of repeating myself over and over again, I can just grab the "end parts"

On the other hand, I am just using examples of the affects of the spell. I'm not using verbatim text. I'm just proving a point that using the ^ wasn't triggering. I'll try other things...let me see what I can come up with.

Thank you for everything, it's always appreciated.

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

Most problems are easier to fix when people do use verbatim text, preferably cut-and-paste. I have no way of seeing your actual script, so I will point out potential typos as they are GUARANTEED to stop triggers from working.

P.S. You have a bad habit of dropping the second f in off.

LightBulb
Senior Member

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

Here is an example of A trigger that will do what you want. If I have the proper text to work with.

#trig {^Protection, which will wear off (*)}

Remember that this is assuming that there is absolutely no text before the triggering text on the given line.

If there is then you would need something like.

#trig {{^room}Protection, which will wear off(*)$}

I'm not sure what your value is but, I imagine you are using if statements to make your buttons change colors. In that case you don't need to have the exact text in the triggering line.

Arminas, The Invisible horseman

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

quote:

Here is an example of A trigger that will do what you want. If I have the proper text to work with.

#trig {^Protection, which will wear off (*)}

Remember that this is assuming that there is absolutely no text before the triggering text on the given line.

If there is then you would need something like.

#trig {{^room}Protection, which will wear off(*)$}

I'm not sure what your value is but, I imagine you are using if statements to make your buttons change colors. In that case you don't need to have the exact text in the triggering line.

Arminas, The Invisible horseman

The stringlist special characters (curly brackets) used in a trigger denote a verbatim list of values and cannot be used with wildcards or other special symbols. Thus, this trigger:

#trigger {{^room|^area}} {#say Test}

Would ONLY fire if "^room" or "^area" appeared. It will not fire on "room" or "area". That's why your trigger stopped working, Nuts.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD