Forums Scripts & Popups Pausing play by pageful...

Ok, another question. I'm trying to make a script to play a text file to someone and let them get a screenful of text and then a [C]ontinue, [S]top choice. I know I could manage this with playing through an alias that does X number of lines at a time, but is there a better option? Some people don't like downloading a help/rules file and playing out a hundred lines or something like that isn't great if they only needed something off the first few lines. Any ideas?

I'm sure you can use the /play command. This does support pausing, but not in the sense what you're attempting to do. Though you could easily play, say the first 25 lines, then display the [C]ontinue and [S]top commands. If they decide to continue, play the next 25 and so on.

use the topic play method
[section1]
blah
stuff and more blah
lots of stuff
[secion2]
important blah also
as well as more stuff
[]

/play -tsection1 who.nick filename speed

if they request more, play -tsection2 and so on

Thanks guys. I think I'll just do like I was thinking and play X number of lines, then play the next if they press C. The topic method won't work very well without redoing the help files ... and I don't want to do that right now.

Personally, I'de use the /play command and play the specified amount of lines. Using a while loop will probably be slower. Though it's up to you.

I don't think I said anything about using a while loop, did I?

I'm planning to /play a certain number of lines, then if they press C, I play the next set of lines, and so on until they either press S or finish the file.

Ah okay, I just assumed ;P

looking forward to your solution on this, could be quite usefull

Well, I was busy last night and didn't work on this at all, but I know how I'm doing it. Basically, I will set a variable to tell me that a person is viewing it. The variable will unset if nothing is done in X seconds. While the variable is set, it will only accept C or S commands. The /play will be through an alias that will play X lines and then issue /play stop and message the C or S choice. If C is pressed, the /play will again be called, using -f and a variable that is set to track the location we're in. It will then play X lins through the alias as previously. If S is done, or the file end is reached, it will unset all variables and accept all commands.

Once I take time to actually write it, I'll post it if you would like it. It's not going to really be that hard to write up. I was just looking for a simpler method.