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[ZoAnimus]

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]

I think it might just be *arena %103, which isn't a very good thing to use to assume the timer expired.
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[Muskrat]

Do you mean this?
From the dll plugin example spawn.cpp

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

[Maverick]

I thought it was EVENT_TimedGameOver, however after some testing that didn't work for me.

So I suggest you to use:

Code: Show/Hide    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.
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[ZoAnimus]

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]

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]

[Smong]

I think EVENT_TimedGameOver is for Misc:TimedGame, which by the way cannot by overided with *timer.

[Muskrat]

cool, thanks