Forums Scripts & Popups Timer activated If Statement

Hi,

I want to use a timer to check the value of a variable %Var every X seconds. And then if %Var has changed I need the timer to execute another command and halt the timer.

How do I go about doing this?

I've tried:

use an alias

timer 15 1 check

Would it work to use $iif identifier?

/timer 39 29 $iif(%this == %that,command here)

Or would the conditional only evaluate once?

You'd have to prevent mIRC from evaluating it when the timer is first set by using something like timer 39 29 $!iif(%this == $!+(%,that),command here). In other words it's ugly as sin so it's usually better to use an alias.

not quite, would be $!iif(%this == $+(%,that) ,command) or $!iif(%this == $!(%that),command). while it may be easier to use an alias, i personally enjoy the challenge of considering how each part evaluates.. especially with longer and more complex series of evaluations

Yeah, messed that up didn't I ? Just goes to show that trying to mess around with non-evaluation is usually more trouble then it's worth, especially in mIRC where you get the unpleasant side-effect of whitespace becoming synactically signficant in places where it usually wouldn't be.