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disable /!command #166710 14/12/06 12:23 PM
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OP sparta Hoopy frood S Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 3,412 Sweden/Borlänge	Any way to halt /!command ? i want dont want people to be able to halt my aliases, how can i do that? if (/! isin $1) dosent work, so any ideas?

Re: disable /!command sparta #166712 14/12/06 01:23 PM
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jaytea Fjord artisan J Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 523	no since as you discovered, on input doesn't trigger for /!commands. why do you want to stop users from using them? i certainly wouldn't want to use a script that didn't let me do what i wanted.. and /!command is a specific indication that you dont want aliases interfering "The only excuse for making a useless script is that one admires it intensely" - Oscar Wilde

Re: disable /!command jaytea #166734 14/12/06 05:18 PM
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OP sparta Hoopy frood S Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 3,412 Sweden/Borlänge	Cos people complain about my script, then when i ask what they have problem with, after a while i was thinking "hmm, sounds like the timers dosent work as they should", then when i have asked they halted ALL timers /timers off, when i asked why they tell me "I did that when i halted a timer in org mirc", and this makes everything stop work as it should, and without the timers i cant check if the timers running, /timers off halt all active timers, then i cant have somethin that check if a serten timer are off or on, if (!$timer(timer)) { do stuff } ..

Re: disable /!command sparta #166746 14/12/06 08:16 PM
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Sais Fjord artisan S Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 284 UK	...and how would disabling /!command help with that? If they don't understand that typing /timers off disables all timers, I doubt they know that typing /!timers off will do the trick if you have overridden /timers.

Re: disable /!command Sais #166749 14/12/06 09:08 PM
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OP sparta Hoopy frood S Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 3,412 Sweden/Borlänge	Everyone can get that from a friend, i have disabled /timers off so far, and if someone tell them /!timers off, then it will f*k up the script.. how ever /timer1 off will work..

Re: disable /!command Sais #166750 14/12/06 09:10 PM
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Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	I'd have to agree... if people don't understand that /timers off turns all timers off, then that's their fault and not your script's fault. You shouldn't need to cater to someone who turns all the timers off.

Re: disable /!command Riamus2 #166758 14/12/06 09:33 PM
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Sais Fjord artisan S Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 284 UK	And if you were to override /timers, then you can ensure that only those timers not relevant to your script are being turned off, and then your users shouldn't even notice the issue.

Re: disable /!command Sais #166761 14/12/06 09:50 PM
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OP sparta Hoopy frood S Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 3,412 Sweden/Borlänge	users maybe start there own timers, so cant turn that off, then they cant disable there own timers.. so only /timers off .. not /timer off

Re: disable /!command sparta #166762 14/12/06 10:12 PM
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Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	So teach them how to turn off their own timers.

Re: disable /!command sparta #166765 14/12/06 10:58 PM
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Sais Fjord artisan S Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 284 UK	I had something like: Code: on *:start: { set %my.timers mytimer1 mytimer2 } alias runtimers { timermytimer1 1 3600 echo -a This is mytimer1 expiring timermytimer2 3 900 echo -a This is mytimer1 expiring } alias timers { if ($1 != off) { !timers $1- \| return } ;; check for my timers var %n = $timer(0) while (%n) { if (!$istok(%my.timers,$timer(%n),32)) { timer $+ $timer(%n) off } dec %n } } in mind. Doesn't turn your own timers off, but it does turn any others off. Of course, you'd then have to know in advance what all your timers were going to be called, or add and remove them dynamically. And it still means they can be turned off with /!timers off (which imho is a Good Thing)

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