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Plugin issue with world.addtimer

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Shadowfyr USA (1,786 posts)

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Sun 23 May 2004 10:36 PM (UTC)

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I recently had someone tell me one of my plugins didn't work, but previously had no problem with it. The plugin can be found at:

http://www.magma.ca/~magnumsw/muds/rebtimer.zip

If it shows version 1.1, then Magnum will have uploaded the patch and that one works. The problem is with the version 1.0 copy. It is supposed to capture a line like:

The next reboot is scheduled for 02:49 CEST (GMT+1) on Wednesday (in 2d 1h 59m 56s).

and store the amount of time until reboot, then create a timer that fires once a second to report how long is left. In the 1.0 version, there is only a single trigger and the script itself. This version never updates the time, since the timer is apparently never created at all by the script. I fixed this in version 1.1 by adding in the timer as part of the plugin, but there is an obvious bug in the current version of Mushclient if it won't create timers from inside of plugin scripting without it existing in the XML already (which is redudant).

(Obviously if by the time of reading this the plugin has been updated to 1.1 on Magnum's site, you will have to delete the timer from inside the XML file and the save state file as well to test the bug.)

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,990 posts)

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Reply #1 on Sun 23 May 2004 11:21 PM (UTC)

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Aha, you have found a bug in AddTrigger, AddTimer and AddAlias. When attempting to check the script sub name, it checked if scripting was active in the *main* world file, not the plugin.

Thus, if the person using the plugin had not enabled scripting, the AddTimer would fail. This will be fixed in version 3.50.

As a workaround, enable scripting in the main world file. However it might still call the script in the wrong address space, so I would be cautious about it. If it previously worked for you, perhaps this is not a problem. You probably had scripting enabled in your main file, the other user not.

- Nick Gammon

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

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Posted by

Shadowfyr USA (1,786 posts)

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Reply #2 on Mon 24 May 2004 01:01 AM (UTC)

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Well. I actually don't use the plugin myself, so I have no idea if this is a recent glitch. Most of the plugins I have created have been ripped out of the monolythic main script I use. ;) lol Usually I need to modify them heavilly to work, but this one was simple enough I didn't bother until someone mentioned it wasn't working.

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,990 posts)

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Reply #3 on Mon 24 May 2004 01:19 AM (UTC)

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It is actually a bit strange this bug wasn't detected earlier, but I suppose most scripters would have scripting enabled in the main world configuration, and thus the problem would not apply to them.

- Nick Gammon

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

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Posted by

Magnum Canada (580 posts)

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Reply #4 on Mon 31 May 2004 11:38 AM (UTC)

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As of this posting, Shadowfyr's plugin "rebtimer" is now 1.1 on my site.

In the event I move my site at some point in the future, you should still be able to locate my webpage via my domain name:

http://www.magnumsworld.com/muds/

(Which redirects to my ISP hosted page).

Get my plugins here: http://www.magnumsworld.com/muds/

Constantly proving I don't know what I am doing...
Magnum.

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