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ZoAnimus - Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:18 pm
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Does anyone know what event is passed when the timer runs out that is set by *timer? I want to use MervBot to do some processing anytime the *timer runs down to 0. I'm hoping that there is already a function to handle this event in the MervBot code. I can then just add my processing to that function. Any thoughts will be appreciated

Thanks,
ZoA

Mr Ekted - Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:20 pm
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I think it might just be *arena %103, which isn't a very good thing to use to assume the timer expired.

Muskrat - Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:48 pm
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Do you mean this?
From the dll plugin example spawn.cpp

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case EVENT_TimedGameOver:
   {
      Player *p[5];
      for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
         p[i] = (Player*)event.p[i];
   }
   break;

Maverick - Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:59 pm
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I thought it was EVENT_TimedGameOver, however after some testing that didn't work for me.

So I suggest you to use:

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case EVENT_Chat:
   {
      int type = *(int*)&event.p[0];
      int sound = *(int*)&event.p[1];
      Player *p = (Player*)event.p[2];
      char *msg = (char*)event.p[3];

      switch (type)
      {
      case MSG_Arena:
         {
            if(strcmp(msg,"NOTICE: Game over")==0 && sound==5) {
               //code goes here
            }
         }
         break;
[...]

or use the countdown array and check in EVENT_Tick.

ZoAnimus - Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:15 pm
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I tried adding the line
sendPublic("Event happened");

to both the EVENT_TimedGameOver and MSG_Arena areas of the code. However, when the timed game ends. The Bot nevers says Event happened. I thought that just having the bot say something would be a good test as to whether or not the bot is registering the event.

Any ideas??

Edit:
I changed the line of code to
sendPublic("*arena Event Happened");

and it worked. Go figure???

Muskrat - Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:24 pm
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Yeah I couldnt get the EVENT_TimedGameOver to work either, I just assumed I was doing somethign wrong heh.

But I would not use that anyways, as having a timer in the bot to set and check with bot commands will allow using seconds, and allow events at intervals before it ends.

D1st0rt - Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:03 pm
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Quote:

sendPublic("Event happened");

to both the EVENT_TimedGameOver and MSG_Arena

Because you sent a Public message, it didn't register for your check for Arena Messages. If you had put stuff in MSG_Public, it would have worked.

Smong - Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:59 am
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I think EVENT_TimedGameOver is for Misc:TimedGame, which by the way cannot by overided with *timer.

Muskrat - Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:44 pm
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cool, thanks