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BlueEyes (28 posts) Bio

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Reply #15 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 04:22 AM (UTC)

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So to disable I would EnableAlias ("lazy", false)

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Posted by

Blainer (191 posts) Bio

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Reply #16 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 04:52 AM (UTC)

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Correct. :)

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,120 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #17 on Thu 20 Aug 2009 05:49 AM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 20 Aug 2009 05:58 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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You still don't have a timer there. The thing called "lazy" is an alias, not a timer.

One approach would be to make a timer, that does "lazy" every 10 seconds.

I should point out too that to enable and disable the alias it has to have a name.

So far, "lazy" is what it matches on, not its name.

What I suggest is to give the timer a name, and make the timer call the alias. This is what I mean:


<aliases>
  <alias
   name="pilot_steer"
   match="do_pilot_steer_thing"
   enabled="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>

directions = { "n", "w", "s", "e" }

require "wait"
wait.make (function ()

  for dir = 1, #directions do
    for i = 1, 5 do
      Send("pilot steer " .. directions [dir]) 
      wait.time (0.5)
    end  -- doing it 5 times
  end -- for each direction

end )

</send>
  </alias>

  <alias
   match="pilot start"
   enabled="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>

if GetTimerInfo ("pilot_timer", 6) then
  Note "Pilot already started."
else
  EnableTimer ("pilot_timer", true)  -- start timer
  ResetTimer ("pilot_timer")  -- make sure back to zero
  Note "Starting pilot"
end -- if

</send>
  </alias>

  <alias
   match="pilot stop"
   enabled="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>

if GetTimerInfo ("pilot_timer", 6) then  -- if enabled calculate time to go
  local time_to_go = os.difftime (GetTimerInfo ("pilot_timer", 12), os.time ())
  Note ("steering will stop in ", time_to_go, " seconds.")
else
  Note ("timer already disabled")
end -- if

EnableTimer ("pilot_timer", false)  -- disable timer

</send>
  </alias>
</aliases>

The above is 3 aliases:

do_pilot_steer_thing - which does the actual steering in a simple loop
pilot start - that starts the timer, so the steering does one sequence
pilot stop - that stops the timer, so the steering will finish at the end of the current sequence - I presume you want the ship to stop back at shore, or the whole thing will be out of whack. It checks the timer and tells you how many seconds it has to go.

Now you need the timer:


<timers>
  <timer name="pilot_timer" 
     second="11.00" 
     offset_second="10.00"    
     send_to="10"
>
  <send>do_pilot_steer_thing</send>

  </timer>
</timers>

For advice on how to copy the above, and paste it into MUSHclient, please see Pasting XML.

That simply calls "do_pilot_steer_thing" every 11 seconds - and since it sends to "execute" the alias picks it up. The 11 seconds is to make sure the alias has a chance to finish before being called again. The offset of 10 seconds is so you don't have to wait 11 seconds when you first start the boat (you only wait 1 second).

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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