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I'm using the hybrid core. How would I get the bot to send a pre determand message every 30 mintues to the bots listed chat channel?

Cerium · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject:

If using the AS frontend:
1) In spawn.ini, set the chat channels your bot will join when it connects, or send the public messages '?chat=channels' (same way as in ss).

2) Use the ASConnection.sendChannelMessage(#, MESSAGE) function, where ASConnection is an instance of the ASConnection object, # is the chat channel to send the message to and MESSAGE is the message to send (String).

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If using the TWCore Emu:
See distorts tutorial, Im sure it has something there for it.

Wrap the appropriate messaging function in a TimerTask class, and schedule it with a Timer to run every 30 minutes (1800000 milliseconds).

Ill probably write a quick code sample when I wake up if one of the other java guys doesnt beat me to it.
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D1st0rt · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject:

Go ahead, you called it
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Cerium · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject:

Ok then...
Youre still getting the twcore tutorial.

Anyway this is mostly copy/paste from the tutorial bot, but Ive added a few chunklets of code for the timer creation/registration.

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package bots.TutorialBot;

import hybrid.core.*;
import hybrid.core.consts.*;

import hybrid.core.events.*;
import hybrid.core.events.ss.*;

import frontend.alphaspawn.*;
import frontend.alphaspawn.tools.command.*;

public class Lesson1 extends AlphaSpawn
{
/**
* The ASConnection object will be used throughout most of the tutorials. This is the AlphaSpawn
* extension of the SSConnection class, which provides a number of support functions and interfaces
* for player tracking and command handling. If you play on using the AlphaSpawn frontend, you
* should get used to working with the ASConnection object and the connection framework in general.
*/
private ASConnection objConnection;

public Lesson1()
{
   // Set this bots author and contact info...
   super("Cerium", "Cerium@gmail.com");


   CommandManager objCommands = CommandManager.getInstance();
   objCommands.registerCommand("!test", new TutorialCommand());

   // Attempt to open a connection...
   this.objConnection = (ASConnection) ASConnection.open();
   if(this.objConnection != null)
   {
      /* The connection was opened successfully. At this point we need to allocate a username and
      * password for the connection to use. The SpawnConfiguration class provides a few functions
      * for managing the names provided in spawn.ini.
      *
      * The allocateLoginInfo() assigns a single username for use with this bot.
      */
      LoginInfo objLoginInfo = SpawnConfiguration.allocateLoginInfo();
      if(objLoginInfo != null)
      {
         /* Once we have a username, we can set the info in the connection. This is optional, but
         * is easier than handling than handling the Connected event manually.
         *
         * Once the info is set, we tell our ASConnection object to connect. Calling connect()
         * with no parameters tells the connection to use the zone IP and port specified in
         * spawn.ini.
         */
         this.objConnection.setLoginInfo(objLoginInfo);
         this.objConnection.connect();

         /* Now we setup the timer task. the AlphaSpawn class provides a Timer for us, so we just
         * need to create the TimerTask (See the ChatTask class below)
         /
         super.objTimer.schedule(new ChatTask(), 1800000, 1800000);
      } else {
         // A username could not be allocated. This bot relies on a connection that is able to
         // login. Without a username, we need to shutdown.
         BotSpawn.shutdown("Unable to allocate a username!");
      }
   } else {
      // We were unable to allocate a connection, so were shutting down.
      BotSpawn.shutdown("Unable to allocate a connection!");
   }
}

/**
* The ChatTask class is our TimerTask to send a message at a set interval. Its not very extensive,
* so the run function is all we need to take care of.
*/
private class ChatTask extends TimerTask
{
   public void run()
   {
      // Make sure the connection isnt null, and check that its online...
      if(objConnection != null && objConnection.isOnline())
      {
         /* Send our message. This sends the message to the first chat channel the bot is joined to.
         * This is identical to typing ';Hello internet!' in game.
         *
         * Before this will work, we need to either set the channels in spawn.ini, or send the
         * public message ?chat=channel where 'channel' is the name of the channel to join.
         */
         objConnection.sendChannelMessage(1, "Hello internet!");
      }
   }
}

protected void processEvent(HybridEvent objEvent)
{
   // Ignore null or dead events...
   if(objEvent == null || !objEvent.isAlive()) { return; }

   System.out.println("Received event: " + objEvent.getEventName());
}
}

D1st0rt · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:05 am Post subject:

A TimerTask article is on my to do list, just don't have any time these days

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Thanks Cer, works like a charm