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Create new timers from script?
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| Posted by
| Scorch
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| Sat 27 Dec 2003 10:18 PM (UTC) |
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| I wanted to make temp timers from a script which is activated by a trigger (for protection spells on a MUD, spell goes up, 5 minutes later it goes back down). The problem with using a predefined timer is I want to be able to cast these protection spells on more than one person, perhaps an entire party of 8. It'd be much more efficient to be able to create a temporary timer that calls a function that tells everyone the spell is failing for a particular person.
I can't seem to find anything in the help files on creating new timers via the scripting language though, any help? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #1 on Sun 28 Dec 2003 02:30 AM (UTC) |
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| First, look at these online help pages:
http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/doc.php?general=timers
(Follow the hyperlinks to the various timer-creating functions).
However the quick answer is you could use the "DoAfter" function to cast spells after a certain interval. For example:
DoAfter 300, "cast protection Nick"
You could do that in a trigger by putting that in the trigger "send" text and changing it to "send to script".
To do a whole party you could add more lines to the trigger, or if the party varies a lot, keep a party list in a variable, extract that variable using Split, and then use "for each" to iterate through the extracted array. If you want an example of doing that let us know. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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