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| Posted by
| Winddancer
(34 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Sun 19 Oct 2025 06:23 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| I started to clear up my huge MCL character file by exporting re-usable stuff into a plugin.
So far, the plugin works.
However, I included an active timer within the plugin which I would like to be able to enable or disabled without having to modify the plugin file or by enabling and disabling the plugin itself.
How would I therefore go about to have an alias?, needs to be most likely added to the plugin itsel, with which I can enable or disabled a timer within the plugin | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #1 on Sun 19 Oct 2025 08:44 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Yes, you would add an alias to the plugin, then it can control any timer inside the plugin. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Winddancer
(34 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Sun 19 Oct 2025 10:24 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | How would such an alias look like? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #3 on Mon 20 Oct 2025 05:49 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Something like this:
<aliases>
<alias
match="DisableFoo"
enabled="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="100"
>
<send>
EnableTimer("MyTimer", false)
print ("Timer MyTimer disabled")
</send>
</alias>
<alias
match="EnableFoo"
enabled="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="100"
>
<send>
EnableTimer("MyTimer", true)
print ("Timer MyTimer enabled")
</send>
</alias>
</aliases>
 |
For advice on how to copy the above, and paste it into MUSHclient, please see Pasting XML.
|
You could paste that directly into the plugin file. Change MyTimer to be the name (label) of the timer you want to affect. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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