Forums Scripts & Popups how to surpress /timer x activated msg in status w

Im running several timers. On activation the timers post messages like "* Timer 5 activated" in the Status window. Is there a way to suppress these messages from appearing? TIA

Put a dot in front of your timers to silence them.
/.timer

Thanks for your help. That worked. Im sure its in the mIRC help somewhere but I will be danged if I could find it.

Next question: can this be done? /timer5 0 $rand(10,40) /echo Hi
I keep getting an error.....

Scamp

1) You aren't specifying where you want the echo to go to.
2) Next time, supplying the error message would be of a lot of help.

The error is simply reported as this line in my alias.ini
/timer5 0 $rand(10,40) /echo Hi

ok. I forgot the -s i.e. /timer5 0 $rand(10,40) /echo -s Hi

If I eliminate $rand(10,40) and replace with say 10
it runs every 10 seconds. I assume the $rand function
would be re-evaluated with each run, but I guess not????

That would run every 10 seconds, displaying the random number and the message.
As I understand the OP, he wants it to run at different intervals, with the interval being randomized.

To the OP: The problem that I can quickly foresee with that situation can be described with the following example.

1) Timer is started
2) Random time of 20 is picked
3) script waits 20 seconds
4) random time of 30 is picked
5) script waits 30 seconds
6) random time of 15 seconds is picked
7 script waits 15 seconds
etc. etc. etc.

ie: Due to the fact that the message doesn't get displayed until after the delay time has elapsed, setting a new delay time, each time, would mean that the message would never get displayed.

Re-reading your response regarding the error, it appears that you have the /timer command as a single line in the aliases.ini file.
In the alaises.ini file, you should have nothing except aliases, so the /timer command is invalid as an alias.
I suggest moving the code to a remote script, and if you want it as an alias, then use the alias prefix.

i don't see there being a problem as long as you make it correctly

in this case, of course, you're forced to keep restarting a timer with 1rep. simple example:



i named the timer t5 instead of 5 so it could be referenced accurately by $timer(). in general it's best to avoid naming such things as timers, @windows, hash tables etc. as integers especially when the associated identifiers would otherwise mess up!

Thanks for all the great feedback. Im an Airline Pilot not a programmer hihi, but this is how I eventually solved my problem:

3 aliases:

/start /.timer5 0 1 /operate

/operate set %ptime $rand(10,80) | /.timer5 off | /msg #mychannel $time | /.timer5 0 %ptime /operate

/killtimer /timer5 off

Im sure there is a more elegant way but this seems to work ok.

Thanks again,
Captain Scampy

No need to constantly tell mIRC to start/stop the timer, when you can set the number of repetitions to one.
The /operate alias is fine with the pipes (|), I just don't like using them, so I re-wrote it in the format that I prefer.

Also the / character is not required in a scripted code to start a command in the code.

Thanks for all the hints...working great now

Scampy