Forums Scripts & Popups a couple quick questions about timers

Hello. I've recently began messing around programming with the mIRC scripts and it's been quite fun! Right now, I'm trying to have my bot print out random facts from a text file when given a command in a twitch chat.

Approach 1)

on *:TEXT:!automode1:#: {
if ( $nick == hljiu) {
msg $chan Starting automode.
.timerLinks 0 30 msg $chan $read(facts.txt, n)
}
}


The bot is able to read a random line from my facts file every 30 seconds, but it seems that only the same fact is being read. Isn't $read supposed to pick a random line to be read for each time interval, according to the code?





Approach 2)

on *:TEXT:!automode2:#: {
if ( $nick == hljiu) {
msg $chan Starting automode.
.timerLinks 0 30 myAlias
}
}

alias myAlias {
var %linenum = $r(1,34)$
msg $chan $read(facts.txt, n, %linenum )
}

When I try this code, nothing even appears on the twitch chat that the bot is in. Instead, I see results being printed on tmi.twitch.tv instead of the current chat's channel. However, the facts being read are random this time instead of the same line being repeated like in the previous code. What is the problem here?

Wait, I messed up that alias.

After putting /auto inside the alias section in the script editor and the following code in remote:

alias auto {
/timerAuto 0 30 msg $chan $read( facts.txt, n, $r(1,34 ) )
}

I then try calling /auto from the channel window in the mIRC client. However, I still get the output where only one line from the text file is being output over and over.

You're using /timer. It evals the $read() part as soon as you execute the /timer command. That's why you get stuck with a single line. You must Use $!read() or use $eval() to prevent that.

You don't need that $r() part. $read() itself gives you a random line.

On approach 2, you're getting the wrong chan because you're doing your processing in an alias. If you notice the difference between #1 and #2 is that in #1 you pass the $chan into the msg command from the on TEXT event, whereas in #2 you give it $chan inside the alias. With timers, by the time the timer fires, it has forgotten what $chan means in context to your script, so it uses a different $chan (I forget what the rules for picking the other chan are).

To fix this, pass the $chan into your alias like:



*I am not saying that this is the better solution to your problem. Only trying to inform you as to why it was messaging the wrong $chan.